 | Crazy MaryPearl Jam with Victoria Williams |
Writer(s): Victoria Williams (see lyrics here) First Charted: August 7, 1993 Peak: 26 AR, 8 MR, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 7.6 video, 0.21 streaming |
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About the Song:Folk-rock singer/songwriter Victoria Williams was born in 1958 in Shreveport, Louisiana. She released her first album, Happy Come Home in 1987 and its follow-up, Swing the Statue! three years later. In 1992, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Because she didn’t have health insurance, a collection of artists recorded her songs for a benefit album called Sweet Relief. While Victoria Williams wasn’t a household name, many of the artists on the album were. Amongst them were Evan Dando, the Jayhawks, Maria McKee, Pearl Jam, Michael Penn, Lou Reed, Soul Asylum, Matthew Sweet, and Lucinda Williams. All of the songs except two had been recorded by Victoria on her first two albums. One of them was “Crazy Mary.” Victoria Williams wrote the song about an old black woman – referred to in the song as “a wild-eyed woman who lives in a tar paper shack” – who walked around Shreveport, refusing to get inside a moving car. She was killed when an out-of-control car crashed into her shack. SF It was one of two songs featured on Sweet Relief that had not been previously released on one of Williams’ first two albums. She put the song out in 1994 on her third album, Loose, but it was recorded first by Pearl Jam (with Victoria on backing vocals) for the Sweet Relief project. Their version was a top-10 modern rock track and reached the album rock chart as well. Pearl Jam had only released one album, 1991’s Ten, but it had established them as one of the biggest acts in the world. It became a cornerstone of grunge and would be certified for 13 million in sales. Resources:
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