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While not a huge commercial success at the time Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album) retained a cult reputation, and finally got the reception it deserved upon its reissue in 2014. Jim Farber of New York’s Daily News hailed the reissue by saying “Listening again proves it to be that rarest of beasts: a perfect work. There’s not a chord, lyric, beat or inflection that doesn’t pull at the heart or make it soar.”
For much of the next decade, Williams moved around the country, stopping in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, and turning out work that won immense respect within the industry (winning a Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s version of “Passionate Kisses”) and a gradually growing cult audience. While her recorded output was sparse for a time, the work that emerged was invariably hailed for its indelible impressionism — like 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which notched her first Grammy as a performer.
The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like West (2007), which All Music Guidecalled “flawless…destined to become a classic” and Blessed (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed “a dynamic, human, album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.” Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness, but also exuded more rays of light and hope. This all lead to the 2014 release of Williams’ first double studio album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone. The album received overwhelming praise from the media and fans, thus proving that Williams’ songwriting is as strong and important as it has ever been.
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Forgotten Series: Lucinda Williams - Essence (2001)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Lucinda Williams brings a brave, riveting vulnerability to Essence—and, for me, it's her masterpiece. Yet you are more apt to find it in the big-box department-store cutout bin than at the top of most people's desert-island lists. Perhaps the sensual melancholy of Essence was too personal, maybe it held too much dark intrigue. She takes chances lyrically, and there's this hard-bitten musical sparseness, notable in the wake of 1998's more narrative Grammy-winning breakthrough “Car Wheels on a ...
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Over the Rhine Album 'The Long Surrender' Enlists Joe Henry Production and Lucinda Williams, Guest Vocals
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conqueroo
Due out January 11, 2011, the album they call “a record we couldn't imagine in advance" marks the duo's 20th year. Lucinda Williams makes a vocal appearance. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Long Surrender, the new studio album from the southern Ohio- based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist, otherwise known as Over the Rhine, is something rare and wondrous—an intimate epic. The fan-funded record, to be released January 11, 2011 on OtR's own Great Speckled Dog label ...
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Lucky Peterson Interprets Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Ray Lamontagne, Robert Johnson & Blind Willie McTell
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Blues singer/keyboardist/guitarist's first album in seven years features Larry Campbell, Scott Petito and Gary Burke, and songs by Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Tom Waits, Ray LaMontagne and Lucinda Williams
WOODSTOCK, N.Y.--Lucky Peterson was discovered by blues legend Willie Dixon when he was three years old, released his first record at five and soon after appeared on The Tonight Show. Trained by keyboardists Bill Doggett and Jimmy Smith, Peterson went on to play behind Little Milton, Bobby “Blue" Bland and ...
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Lucinda Williams: 30th Ann Tour
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JamBase
Lucinda Williams Announces 30th Anniversary Tour Three Night Stands In NYC & Chicago To Feature Sets From Select Periods Of her Career
Lucinda Williams Three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams announces a series of special performances to celebrate her 30th anniversary as a recording artist.
The 30th Anniversary Tour begins on September 18 with a very special show at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. On October 3, 4 & 5 Williams will play a three-night stand at New York's ...
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Anne McCue's new CD features Lucinda Williams, John Doe, Nancy Wilson, Jim Lauderdale - 'Koala Motel' out 9/18
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All About Jazz
ANNE McCUE COMPLETES NEW ALBUM, KOALA MOTEL, WITH HELP FROM FRIENDS LUCINDA WILLIAMS, JOHN DOE, JIM LAUDERDALE, HEART'S NANCY WILSON AND PRODUCER DUSTY WAKEMAN
Second album for Messenger Records is due September 19
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Anne McCue's second album for Messenger Records, which follows 2004's enthusiastically received Roll, represents an extraordinary leap made by an already impressive talent. It goes beyond affecting songs and inspired playing and singing, and creates its own world.
Due out September 19, the ...
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Anne McCue Completes New Album Koala Motel With Help From Friends Lucinda Williams, John Doe and Others
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All About Jazz
Anne McCue's second album for Messenger Records is due September 19
Anne McCue's second album for Messenger Records, which follows 2004's enthusiastically received Roll, represents an extraordinary leap made by an already impressive talent. It goes beyond affecting songs and inspired playing and singing, and creates its own world.
Due out September 19, the album is once again co-produced by Dusty Wakeman (Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam) and McCue at Mad Dog Studios in Burbank. Koala Motel finds the Australian-born, Los ...
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