Lucinda Williams - West
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Artist: Lucinda WilliamsBrand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- Are You Alright?
- Mama You Sweet
- Learning How to Live
- Fancy Funeral
- Unsuffer Me
- Everything Has Changed
- Come On
- Where Is My Love?
- Rescue
- What If
- Wrap My Head Around That
- Words
- West
Free Music Notes for West
Free Music Review: Sweet, tender, pain, love and loss
Hit: 5 Stars
The first time I can recall knowing about Lucinda was on a tribute to Gram Parsons show with the some of the best and well-known alternative country singers. I didn't pay much attention then and I knew of her as one who was in that crowd.
I have so enjoyed this CD, I love her raspy voice, the lyrics filled with hurt, pain, loneliness, wonderment, sex, love and loss. Listening to this is like having her for a morning of conversation, telling you what is going on lately and with beautiful musical melody. Especially with Fancy Funeral, which I believe she had just lost her mother. There is a sweet tribute to her mother called Mama You Sweet.
One of my favorites is Are You Alright? It's the craziness of love, when someone walks out on you, with no explanation, nothing.
Listening to this is also like one long song, beautiful arrangements, sexy voice, and pleasing musical sounds. It's about the lyrics, her message, the tone.....Rizzo
West Poster
Though the arrangements stray from Lucinda Williams's motherlode blend of blues, country, and folk, West may well be her best album. It is easily her most musically adventurous, and often her most lyrically inspired. Williams's singing has never sounded better, from the aching tenderness of "Where Is My Love?" to the ravaged catharsis of "Unsuffer Me." New York producer Hal Willner, who has worked with artists such as Marianne Faithful and Lou Reed, enlists the support of eclectic progressives like guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Bob Burger, and violinist Jenny Scheinman, along with harmonies from the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, to weave a subtly rich sonic tapestry. Much of the material was inspired by the death of Williams's beloved mother ("Mama You Sweet," "Fancy Funeral") and the bitter breakup of a relationship (the jagged-edged emasculation of "Come On," the repetitive incantation of "Wrap My Head Around That"), though "Are You Alright?," "Learning How to Live," and "Everything Has Changed" could reflect the aftermath of both. Other highlights include "Rescue," with a languid subtlety and ambient pulse reminiscent of Beth Orton, and the dreamy, wistful title track. Where Williams's music has long cut close to the bone, the best of West slices right through it. --Don McLeeseLucinda Wiliams Photos
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