Holly Williams - Here With Me
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Artist: Holly WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-06-16
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
- He's Making a Fool Out of You
- Mama
- I Hold On
- Keep the Change
- Let Her Go
- Three Days in Bed
- Alone
- A Love I Think Will Last
- Gone with the Morning Sun
- Without Jesus Here with Me
- Birds
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In the increasingly homogenized universe of popular music, it takes a good dose of heartfelt lyrics that are sung with special conviction to show again the power from the increasingly lost art of storytelling. Holly Williams carves her niche as a singer/songwriter - she writes or co-writes eight of the 11 tracks - on this sophomore effort and her first album for Universal Music Group Nashville: Mercury Nashville Records.
And it's from the deepest depths of despair on "Without Jesus Here With Me" - chronicling a March 2006 car crash that nearly killed Williams and her sister - that delivers incredible textures on such a shattered canvas: My sister fought/My daddy cried/My mama begged him for our lives/And I don't know how I would breathe/Without Jesus here with me. But reflection on that tragic day brings incredible honesty to the present: I still don't talk to him much/But I don't know where I would be/Without Jesus here with me/No there ain't no tellin' where I'd be/Without Jesus here with me.
The daughter of Hank Williams, Jr. - and half-sister of alt-country singer Hank Williams III - also tackles being raised in a broken home on the single "Mama" (You could have been bitter/You could have hated him) through lyrics which meticulously bring out such private emotions. That same soul searching is also found on the other single "Keep the Change" (I'm sitting around singing sad, sad songs/And it ain't, ain't getting me nowhere).
"Let Her Go" bounds forward with particular vibrancy, while the studio turns into a small stage on a very late Saturday night in a bar half-filled with desperate souls as Williams gets down to basics - guitar/vocal - on "Three Days in Bed" and piano/vocal for Neil Young's "Birds." A softer number - "Gone with the Morning Sun" - and a duet with Chris Janson, "A Love I Think Will Last" - expertly juxtaposes the roller coaster that love brings to a life, but each leave room for the listener to add some personal details into the mix.
Holly Williams proves why a premium should still be placed on crafting words that won't be lost in production gimmicks that replaces substance for style.
Here With Me Poster
1. He s Making A Fool out of You2. Mama
3. I Hold On
4. Keep The Change
5. Let Her Go
6. Three Days In Bed
7. Alone
8. Love I Think Will Last
9. Gone With The Morning Sun
10. Without Jesus Here With Me
11. Birds
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