Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
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Artist: Lucinda WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- Real Love
- Circles And X's
- Tears Of Joy
- Little Rock Star
- Honey Bee
- Well Well Well
- If Wishes Were Horses
- Jailhouse Tears
- Knowing
- Heaven Blues
- Rarity
- Plan To Marry
- It's A Long Way To The Top
Free Music Notes for Little Honey
Free Music Review: A Fantastic, Ecclectic Mix From "America's Best Songwriter"
Hit: 5 Stars
In 2002, Time Magazine proclaimed Lucinda Williams "America's Best Songwriter", and this new collection from Ms. Williams further solidifies her legitimate claim to this honor. After her emotional, introspective release of 2006, "West", Lucinda's 10th album during her 30-year career finds her full of the joy of a new love in her life, and her poetry and music show it.
"Little Honey" opens with the hard-rocking single "Real Love", showcasing the voice that won Lucinda the Best Female Rock Vocalist Grammy in 2001 (and additional nominations in Rock categories in 2003 & 2007). True to her well-known form, however, she refuses to be pigeon-holed in one genre and follows up with the "torch and twang" of "Circles And X's". But she's only just begun showing the breadth and depth of her enormous talent - next up is the smoky, slow blues of "Tears of Joy". Next is a soaring rock ballad about the tragic excesses sometimes found in the music business, "Little Rock Star". Next, another rocker, "Honey Bee", a song that she and her band, Buick 6, particularly enjoy playing live.
Then, she and the band are back in a back roads honky-tonk of her native South with the old-time country swing of "Well, Well, Well" (with the legendary 81 year-old Charlie Louvin singing background vocals). Next up, a classic Lucinda Williams song of heart-rending regret (and perhaps my favorite song on the album), "If Wishes Were Horses".
And so it goes through the rest of the album, with Lucinda & Buick 6 expertly genre-hopping from more honky-tonk country ("Jailhouse Tears", a duet with Elvis Costello), delta blues ("Heaven Blues"), then a beautiful ballad condemning the music industry for ignoring a rare talent ("Rarity"), a folk / protest song ("Plan to Marry") and wrapping up the set with a rocking cover of AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top" that she somehow makes all her own.
I was left in awe after my first listen to this album, and continue to be more & more impressed with (many) repeated plays. The production is top-notch, with Doug Pettibone's wailing guitar & Lucinda's powerful vocals "out and front" in the mix.
This album is a pure joy. I honestly believe it ranks right up there with "World Without Tears" and perhaps even "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" her seminal work which won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1999. I just hope the Grammy committee is listening to Lucinda again this year.
Bottom line - buy this album. You will not be disappointed.
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Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little HoneyThe album features a duet with Elvis Costello "Jailhouse Tears" Other guest vocalists include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Easton and Charlie Louvin.
The first single "Real Love" is available for download in the Amazon MP3 store.
Lucinda Williams does anguish so well it?s easy to forget that Happy Woman Blues is not just the title of her 1980 album, but also the way she thinks of herself. That identity comes across full force in Little Honey, the follow-up to 2007?s heavily brooding West, where her melancholy voice seemed to creak with sadness. Here, a full-throated Williams revels in the rejuvenation of her engagement to her manager/co-producer Tom Overby, over whom she?s positively giddy on "Real Love." Her newfound bliss opens the floodgates to a musical revival, as well, since Little Honey, her ninth studio album, ranks as one of her most diverse, ranging from pounding rock ?n? roll (the raw sex of the title track) to the Hank Williams-ish country blues of "Well, Well, Well," to "Knowing"'s ?60s soul. But some of the finest writing appears on "Plan to Marry," as thoughtful a meditation on love as any time-honored sonnet. Just when Williams seems to have run the gamut, she pulls out a Stones-y (via Louisiana) cover of AC/DC?s "It?s a Long Way to the Top" as the punctuation mark. It all makes for a rollicking ride with one of roots-rock's most unpredictable and passionate artists. -? Alanna Nash
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