Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
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Free Music Review: If You Wanna Rock & Roll
Hit: 5 Stars
Lucinda's new record rocks, aches & ultimately rolls. She shows an emotional range as wide as the Mississippi River. Her Buick Six band serves her well. She examines love relationships, including the value of marriage. The opening rocker "Real Love" may be her catchiest track since "I Just Want to See You So Bad" from Lucinda Williams & "Can't Let Go" from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. "Circles & X's" is a melancholy weeper, "You turn around to wave goodbye; You look @ me & linger; The morning hears you sigh & sunlight reflects off the silver on your finger." "Tears of Joy" aches with some stinging electric guitar from Chet Lyster & Doug Pettibone, "I used to play games with my boyfriends; Fashion & fame, hip little trends; Now I have a real man, don't have to pretend." "Honey Bee" puts a smile on my face with Lucinda's flat-out rocker & vocals that seem as tongue-in-cheek as the buzzing guitars, "Oh, my little honey bee; I'm so glad you stung me; Now I got your honey all over my tummy." Elivs Costello joins Lucinda on a melodically challenged tear-in-your-beer song drenched in romantic disgust. "Okay, this is in G," Lucinda says as "Plan to Marry" starts with just her vocals & acoustic guitar as Lucinda seems to draw a parallel between disappointments in our leaders & wars as she casts romance as just another form conquest. The last track, "It's a Long Way to the Top" is one I crank up full blast to roll down the highway with Buick Six doing some of tastiest flat-out boogie I've heard in a long time, "It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll." Lucinda Williams is in top form on "Little Honey." Enjoy!Free Music Review: Yes, it's a Real Love!
Hit: 5 Stars
Little Honey is a much happier album the Lucinda's last album, West, although I'm not sure it's better, it's just as good just the same.
The album kicks off with "Real Love" a rocking, happy tune. It's something we've never heard from Lucinda, then it goes into the country-tinged ballad "Circles and X's" which was actually written over twenty years ago and I'm not sure why she hadn't used it before, and she slips into a very bluesy "Tears Of Joy" talking about playing games but now she has met a man to whom she loves, then comes the loud, beautiful "Little Rock Star", now this is one of the highlights, most definitley, it may even be the best song on the album. "Honey Bee" is a fast raunchy rocker, it is fun although a bit silly.
"Well Well Well" comes next and I must say, it's a bit too country for my taste. It's an okay song, but again just not my taste. If "Well Well Well" was a disappointment, "If Wishes Were Horses" made up for it and then some! This is my second favorite next to "Little Rock Star". But then things take a turn downward when we get to "Jailhouse Tears", which again is an okay song but I think adding Elvis Costello's vocals wasn't a great idea, but the song itself is okay. So now we're on "Knowing" and I must say, it's a beautiful little love song and "Heaven Blues" is a wonderful little blues song about going to Heaven, the music is almost too happy for lyrics that are so sad. "I'm gonna see my mother up in Heaven..."
"Rarity" is another beautiful love song and "Plan To Marry" is about how "love is a sword" and a song for those who love, believe in love and why people marry.
"It's A Long Way To The Top" is a cover and it's a great rock n' roll closer to an awesome Lucinda Williams album! 5 stars.
Free Music Review: Lucinda's Back With Another Winner
Hit: 5 Stars
Few people will ever accuse Lucinda Williams of having a perfect voice; it's a deceptively lazy-sounding drawl redolent of her native Louisiana. But in the thirty years she has been at this racket, she has made a very long-lasting career for herself without ever selling millions of albums, and is a critical and commercial favorite. Such things are likely to continue for her with her album LITTLE HONEY.
Once described by Linda Ronstadt, very approvingly I might add, as "a female Neil Young", Lucinda's approach has always been a very rustic mix of folk, blues, rock, and country elements--not quite mainstream popular (yet), but consistent enough; and her songs have always been quite vivid, though frequently melancholy and often quite dark. She's in a better way on LITTLE HONEY, particularly on the upbeat opening track "Real Love", and a little caustic too, as her ode to letting success go to one's head, "Little Rock Star" would indicate. And there's also her cover of AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top", which warns that a rock star life is not like a box of chocolates, in that it ain't always gonna taste good. Guesting with Lucinda on the album are former Bangles leader Susanna Hoffs, Charlie Louvin (of the legendary Louvin Brothers), and, on the country-influenced (and "R"-rated) "Jailhouse Tears", British rock uber-legend Elvis Costello.
Lucinda may always be an acquired taste in terms of voices, but her vision remains as focused as always; and that makes LITTLE HONEY one of the best albums of 2008, and a prime candidate for more awards.
Free Music Review: I love the music of Lucinda Williams on this disc
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this new disc from Lucinda Williams. The musical arrangements on these tracks are so good. My favorite song is "Real Love". The superb guitar playing by Doug Pettibone compliments Lucinda's vocals well on this track. This song rocks! "Honey Bee" is the other highlight on this disc. Lucinda sounds so feisty belting out this tune. "Tears Of Joy" is a nice bluesy track. The guitar playing is excellent here. "If Wishes Were Horses" is a pretty song. the piano playing by Rob Burger is notable here. "Jailhouse Tears" is a fun duet featuring Elvis Costello. "Little Rock Star" is a song about the illusion of being famous. I think Lucinda sounds great singing this song. "Knowing" is a beautiful subtle song that features David Sutton on bass. "Heaven Blues" is a tribute song to Lucinda's late mother. These are two very relaxing songs. I really enjoyed listening to this album. Lucinda sounds great and the other musicians do too.Free Music Review: Fantastic...Nothing Else Like It
Hit: 5 Stars
Lucinda Williams has within the last decade become a master of diverse musical expression. Little Honey is in my opinion one of the best examples of her work in this regard. Listen to Tears of Joy, and you'd think this was a dyed-in-the-wool blues/rock album; listen to Circles and X's and you'd think this was pure country in its best incarnation - and the examples go on. That's the beauty of Lucinda - she's can be everything and a master of all, and this album doesn't once fall short of that lofty aspiration. There is nothing else out there that is so visceral, so real, and so poetic. And here Lucinda is even playing with her own model - songs that begin in slow tempo like Little Rock Star, you'd think they are going to stay that way, as they have before, but then out of no where she blows your mind with a new (and refreshing) alteration of her classic approach...listen, and you will be amazed.