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by: Lucinda Williams

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Average Rating: Rating: - Very Brilliant, Image-enriched album... I'm glad that I just happened to stumble on Lucinda Williams while searching ... for great new artists. This Cd is a very refreshing and intelligent album. I love her mix of country, folk, Southern, and rock elements. I don't think her voice is all that bad, either. Even though there isn't a single song I can say I don't like, the highlights, in my eyes, are as follows: Right In Time (a song about longing for "your baby" but it's not one of those superficial ... love songs. The chorus is very catchy and I think this tune may be my favorite on the whole CD.), Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Tune about real life and she writes with such vivid imagery. Rough Country), Joy (Bouncy and entertaining song about Lucinda looking for her joy), Can't Let Go (Has such a fun vibe to it and I love the guitar that's used. This is the only song that Lucinda didn'trite on the whole album. Someone named Randy Weeks did), 2 Kool to be 4-Gotten (A laid back soft rock/acoustic based mid-tempo song with nice lyrics). I don't think many artists can match her talent in songwriting with honest and "everyday life" lyrics. It's a shame that not as many people know about her.(Even though this album won album of the year at the Grammies) but you would be doing yourself a favor if you tried to get to know her. Rating: - Lucinda Rocks My (Sweet Old) World!!! A Pain-in-the-Ass perfectionist? A Diva of Streisandian proportions? Maybe. Maybe not. But guess what? I really don't give a #&%. At least not if the final product is "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"! Lucinda's painstaking 6 year effort pays off here; the songs are all candid & descriptive. It's almost as though we are sneaking a peek inside her diary; little by little she peels off the layers until all we're left with is her innermost feelings and she takes us along for the ride. And what a ride it is: this cd runs the gamut from complete resignation of a lost love in "Greenville" to the utter denial of lost love in "Can't let go". We hear everything from Gut-wrenching bitterness in the ironically titled "Joy" to bittersweet, sad stories; as heard in "Drunken Angel" to the tender "Still I long for your Kiss" (my personal fave)... We hear Lucinda trying real hard to convince herself she won't miss her lover in the poignant "Jackson" (at least not much, anyway). If there's an underlying theme to this cd, it's travel. Her meandering journeys throughout the South makes us feel we've been there before, even if we never stepped foot across the Mason-Dixon line. I heard someone describe her sometimes gruff vocal style as: 3 parts honey, 2 parts bourbon. That's about as accurate a way to describe her as any I can think of. This girl's the real deal and this CD is definitely the best of 98. Rating: - Superb--soulful with an understanding of human frailities.* This is truly a very good CD by a great artist. Her voice and her music are both unique, but with roots in well recognized folk, rock and blues genres. She sings a Louiana version of folk and blues with a voice that sometimes has to stretch and strain. Her music doesn't fit easliy into predescribed categories. Sometimes it's quiet, sometimes its loud. Sometimes its blusy and sometimes it's just plain "folk". Usually its a blend. If you want sharp crisp Madison Avenue packaged lyrics that fit perfectly into tight little melodies, this is NOT your CD. Her music and lyrics are often rough around the edges. But if you've ever left or lost a lover, ever felt "lost" or even "found", and like --or hate-- the emotions those memories recall, or if you have a soul that understands the human journey through life, you'll like this CD. For example, the lyrics in "Lake Charles" don't rhyme, don't alwys fit exacly into the music, and are sung by Lucinda in a voice that sounds like Janis Joplin in a quiet mood. But this haunting and tender song about a dead lover/friend also invokes the feeling that the singer has come to grips with the loss as well, and teaches more about remembering your loss and letting it go than any other song I've ever heard. The chorus of "Did an angel whisper in your ear? Hold you close, and take away your fear, in that long last moment?"still affects me, in a way I don't understand, whenever I hear it. Maybe it reminds me that someday I'll face a "long, last moment", too. This is the first Lucinda Williams CD I've listened to. I gave the CD 4 stars simply because the CD tells me that this is an artist capable of even greater heights. If you want to know my tastes in music, they're probably not much help. I was raised on rock n' roll with an emphasis on the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen--but I always had a collection of quieter folk music lying around, too --Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Bob Dylan. Springsteen's quieter releases--"The Ballad of Tom Joad" and "Nebraska" remain my 2 favorites of his CD's. Today I listen to just about anything--Frank Sinatra, Garth Brooks, Patsy Cline, Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen being my mainstays. These singers and their music have very little in common--except that each can evoke some facet of the human condition and put it into words and music. Lucina Williams is the same.

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