Track Listing

1. Right in Time
2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete and Barbed Wire
6. Lake Charles
7. Can't Let Go
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecracker
10. Greenville
11. Still I Long for Your Kiss
12. Joy
13. Jackson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9175 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides--she delivers a polished tone in a coarse manner. On the superb "Concrete and Barbed Wire", soft acoustic guitars are punctuated by electric slide, accordion, mandolin, and Steve Earle's harmony. Williams's deeply personal stories are matched with bluesy rumbles, raunchy grooves, and plaintive whispers. The entire Deep South is reduced to a sleepy small town filled with ex-lovers, dive bars, and endless gravel roads. --Marc Greilsamer

Amazon.com essential recording
Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides--she delivers a polished tone in a coarse manner. On the superb "Concrete and Barbed Wire," soft acoustic guitars are punctuated by electric slide, accordion, mandolin, and Steve Earle's harmony. Williams's deeply personal stories are matched with bluesy rumbles, raunchy grooves, and plaintive whispers. The entire Deep South is reduced to a sleepy small town filled with ex-lovers, dive bars, and endless gravel roads. --Marc Greilsamer

Chronique amazon.fr
Cet album aura projeté Lucinda Williams à sa juste place, en tête de tous les charts de country alternative l'année de sa sortie en 1998. Pourtant, en termes de médiatisation, Lucinda n'aura pas fait davantage pour celui-ci que pour les quatre précédents. Ce n'est qu'un juste retour des choses. Depuis 1979, la chanteuse-guitariste la plus bouleversante du sud de l'Amérique n'a cessé d'écrire des chansons qui touchent au coeur. C'est cette voix blessée, ce sont ces suites d'accords en apesanteur, naturels et évidents, et c'est toujours une bande de musiciens dévoués à la dame, à l'image du très inspiré guitariste Gurf Morlix qui économise ses notes pour livrer les plus exactes d'entre elles au détour d'un refrain. Après il y a les histoires, souvent désespérées sans être jamais résignées. Lucinda Williams, qui semble vivre dans un univers accidenté, entourée de plus fragiles qu'elle encore, n'a pas de rival(e) pour exprimer ces solitudes et ces douleurs. Lorsqu'on lit ou que l'on entend ses mots, le ciel s'assombrit et l'émotion serre la gorge. Pourtant on continue à écouter car on croit instantanément à ces chansons et on veut en connaître la suite. Avec les mots les plus simples, une façon de construire des phrases comme si elles avaient été faites pour ces mélodies-là, Lucinda Williams possède le génie des plus grands et a la classe des seigneurs. Cet album s'impose comme l'une des pièces majeures parues dans le dernier quart de siècle. --José Ruiz

Customer Reviews

One of my favourite albums
I can't think of too many albums that I would recommend as highly as I would this one. I love it!

Lucinda's Got It All
Trying to find the words to praise this album is difficult. It is without a doubt one of my top 5 albums. Her lyrics show her soul and sometimes my own. One has to wonder about the life she's lead when one listens to her music. Much pain and much happiness! Contradiction...I think if you had to describe her music...that would be the word. She is bar none one of the greatest songwriters of our time...and her concerts are not to be missed!

Lucinda Wms
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