Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
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Free Music Review: Little Honey
Hit: 5 Stars
What a talent for so many years - she continues to grow and expand her many talents -try to buy all her CD's you won't be dissapointed.Free Music Review: tears of joy!
Hit: 5 Stars
No long reviews, that's been done elsewhere - short and sweet from the uk - the album of the year!
Buy it, give it to loved ones!
Free Music Review: Fantastic!
Hit: 5 Stars
Blues, country, rock n' roll, she does it all, and way beyond well.
Lucinda is the most honest songwriter going...
Free Music Review: Little Honey
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best album Lucinda Williams has done since `Wheels on a Gravel Road' I highly recommendFree Music Review: Another winning number. It jumps at # 9 of the Billboard 200 chart.
Hit: 4 Stars
"The object of cultish adoration for years, the American singer/songwriter is universally hailed as a major talent by both critics and fellow musicians, but it took quite some time for her to parlay that respect into a measure of attention from the general public. Part of the reason was her legendary perfectionism: she released records only infrequently, often taking years to hone both the material and the recordings thereof. Plus, her early catalog was issued on smaller labels that agreed to her insistence on creative control but didn't have the resources or staying power to fully promote her music. Yet her meticulous attention to detail and staunch adherence to her own vision were exactly what helped build her reputation".-Steve Huey/AMG
At 56, after 30 years in the music business, a string of critically acclaimed albums and three Grammys, she is still something of an acquired taste.
Maybe it's her voice - red raw with passion - or maybe her songs are sometimes just too intense for many listeners.
Her ninth studio album is another masterclass of soulful country blues, but it finds her in more upbeat mood than last year's excellent "West".
For someone whose music is a byword for heartbreak, it's disconcerting that Lucinda Williams's latest album should open with a boisterous, bluesy paean to the joys of love.
On "Real Love", the sense of abandon is fuelled by the electric guitar that she loves but, before the suggestion takes hold that "Little Honey" is the rock album she's always threatened to make, the tone shifts into the more familiar territory of sadness and regret.
"Tears Of Joy" is accompanied by softly throbbing blues guitar and an emphasis on the word 'crying'; while Williams never conceals the fissures of experience running through her fabulous husky voice.
Yet it's emotional ambiguity that Williams excels at, and "Little Honey" drips with it.
This album is notable for its lightness of touch. Whether that's the campy, honky-tonk jam with Elvis Costello ("Jailhouse Tears") or the sparse ballad for her fiancé ("The Knowing), she wraps her honeysuckle voice around them all.
Little Rock Star's sweet tale of redemption through music could be the story of Williams's own life.
Lucinda is happier on more wistful subject matter, particularly "If Wishes Were Horses" and "Circles and Xs"; but not even some superior guitar-playing and an intriguing collection of backing singers (Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs and Charlie Louvin) can hide a certain kind of mediocrity of most of the second half of the album.
All in all, it's a bittersweet treat of soulful country blues.
It is not a bad outing at all, it's great album but not her best.
My favourite tracks: "Jailhouse Tears","If Wishes Were Horses" and "It's A Long Way To The Top".
It debuts at # 9 of The Billboard 200 Chart; at # 1 of the Top Internet Albums and at # 1 of the Top Tastemakers Chart.
Issue Date: 2008-11-01
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