Lucinda Williams - West  (5 anmeldelser)

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Amazing! A real gem of an album

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Skrevet: 28.10.2007

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This is the first album I purchased by Lucinda Williams and I was blown away after the first listen- it is wonderful! The raw, dark, heartfelt lyrics, the musical arrangements and the recording quality all lead me to one conclusion- best album for 2007. Every song is a winner here. I need to get some more Lucinda Williams music now! Wow!

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So Sad

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Skrevet: 24.09.2007

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This CD is heavy duty SAD. If you are a heroin addict, this CD may cheer you up. I only liked one song on the CD and I am a Lucinda fan. This is not a feel-good CD.

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Head "West"

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Skrevet: 23.09.2007

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How can I say this? I'll try to put it the same way that I said it to my friend Tammi - listening to Lucinda Williams sing is like sipping warm whiskey from an ice-less glass while gently rocking in an antique chair on the wood plank floor of a ranch in Texas - with the temperature over 100 degrees and just enough wind to make the tumbleweed rock slightly every few minutes.

She is truly a one of a kind aberration of an artist on today's landscape of singer/songwriters. I would say that she hasn't really changed that much over the years, and stylistically, that would be correct - but the truth is she keeps getting better at it - even when you are certain she can't top her previous best. "West" is just such a CD. She continues to weave in and out of alt-country, blues, rock, and pure country - and yet somehow listening to her CD this is all absolutely coherent. In fact, it's this sort of musical shape-shifting that makes "West" such a pure joy to own.

Personally, the highlights of this CD are many - "Are You Alright" is a haunting ballad about someone staring into the empty hole left by the sudden vacancy of a partner in a relationship. "Wrap My Head Around That" may be about that same relationship - but from a different stage in emotional evolution - here Williams is clearly ticked off about it all, and she says so in no uncertain terms, in what is probably the most "alternative" sounding track on the disk. "Unsuffer Me" seems to be yet a new perspective on lost love - and is a growling, snarling blues rocker that exemplifies nerves burned raw, from love gone bad. The rest of the CD sifts through different moods and emotions, and every track is worthy, but I would have to add as my last favorite the song "Words." On this track, the music is not so much upbeat as uplifting, and seems to perfectly answer all of the feelings expressed in the other tracks. It's not hard to imagine that someone did indeed break her heart before she put a single word or note to music when creating "West", and that it truly is her summation of the experience, bared for the world to get a glimpse of just how she felt - and for my money, she couldn't have done it better. Lost love of some kind is a universally shared experience, and so I find it hard to believe that anyone could listen to this CD and not feel their heart nod "yes."

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Serious music for serious folks

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Skrevet: 15.09.2007

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A very good record, but could use more up-tempo songs and less achy-breaky-heart stuff. I'd still recommend it, but don't play it if you want your spirits lifted.

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Haunting music that gets into your head in a good way

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Skrevet: 31.08.2007

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It seems like Lucinda Williams is different in every CD (but also great in almost all of them). As many reviews have mentioned, this one is a sparser style, yet still has that distinctive sound to her voice. The simple approach really seems to capture people in a very direct way. To me, this feels like a CD I will still be listening to in 20 years - and still finding new little touches each time I hear it.

If you already are a fan, this is another great addition to her broad range of music. If you have never heard Lucinda before, this is a great place to start.

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En konsertopplevelse av de sjeldne - varm, laidback konsert med en fin blanding av følelsesladede låter til drivende gitarspill.  Aldri kjedelig ett sekund - ihvertfall ikke etter at mic'en ble justert under første låt.  We love Lucinda!






Anmeldelser av: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road




Although we already own 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' by Lucinda Williams and love that album dearly, I would have to say that owning this bonus album with a 2nd live performance CD is a MUST have!

Not only do you get awesome quality in the re-mastered tracks, but you also get a live concert performance by Lucinda that is awesome to listen to!

To date, the 2nd CD performance of 'Change the Locks' is my favorite recorded version of that song which I have longed for for quite some time. There's something about hearing Lucinda perform that song live that brings out an intensity that a studio-recorded version of this song just can't re-produce.

To all of you Lucinda fans that crave, and just can't get enough - this CD set comes close! There isn't anything that can compare to hearing her live, but this CD set comes close. Highly very highly recommended!!








Lucinda Williams may be notoriously slow in releasing albums, but such laborious love for her craft is evident in her choice to reissue Car Wheels on a Gravel Road as part of a new deluxe edition set. The set, which combines a remastered version of the original album and live cuts from her performance at Penn's Landing during the WXPN Singer Songwriter Festival, is a collector's dream. Outtakes and new versions of favorite tunes done live make the investment worthwhile. As always, however, Williams own gravelly, soulful tone combined with realistic lyrics ("conversation with you was like a drug.../cause there's something about what happens when we talk") easily remind us of our faults, our successes and why we love her in the first place. She could be us, singing about the troubles in life without bemoaning them or harping too long on the choices that brought them. Her musical gestures resonate similarly--perfect chords, never a note too long or inappropriately placed. Beautiful tone combined with the hearty ability of this songstress lulls you into retrospective bliss. This double CD set can bring you up, remind you why you're down and can easily please a crowd of diverse fans.








Up from DC to visit a woman I'd just started dating and she suggested going to the WXPN free festival being held right along the Delaware. Southern Culture on the Skids were just finishing, but we were there to see the sometime associate of Steve Earle, who my friend adored.

The next act was nothing short of revelatory. The guitars dueled to incredible intensity, the songs were simply brilliant, and I was completely enamored by the singer in jeans and cowboy hat. My friend was a little put out by my rapt attention, but I just couldn't help it. Lucinda Williams was performing the most magical show I had seen in more than a decade.

I went from zero to all of her stuff within a couple of days and caught a few more shows up through Essence. During that stretch, I know of no stronger composer and performer; and her rendition of Masters of War was enough to make you want to take to the streets.

Anyway, great album, great show, great artist in her prime. You'd be hard pressed to do better.










Lucinda's quintessential album gets a bit of a production polish with this reissue that falls just short of a 10th anniversary. Yes, Disc One of this edition contains the original material from "Car Wheels," but, in my opinion, the songs sound MUCH, MUCH better - crisper, clearer, with greater definition. There was nothing wrong with the original production, but this one just pops out of my headphones and car stereo speakers with a bit more oomph.

Three added-value tracks follow "Jackson," the album closer. "Out of Touch" ended up on her "Essence" CD, and I think that version is the better one, but this early attempt is still interesting to hear. "Down the Big Road Blues" is a tremendous tune that did not make the final cut, probably because it's more of a pure blues number, unlike the material that did make it. And who can resist any version of "Still I Long For Your Kiss"? This music is sexy as hell!

"Car Wheels" is one of my favorite albums, and ranks alongside "World Without Tears" as my favorite Lucinda record. She's a phenomenal songwriter, able to craft deeply personal lyrics that have universal value, and has a voice to rival Bono's in its uniqueness. (Just as you'd recognize Bono's voice almost instantly, so Lucinda's is easily recognized.) She sparkles on the second disc of this release, recorded live in Philadelphia back in 1998. Lucinda and her band burn through a great set that includes "Joy," "Hot Blood," "Changed the Locks" and "2 Kool 2 B Forgotten."

I'm not a big fan of reissues, but this is no retread, this is the ultimate version of a fantastic album.








Add one more title to the list of unfortunate recent remastering jobs: Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road".

I listened to the new version of "Car Wheels" (one of my two favorite Lucinda albums) through headphones for the first time last night and couldn't get beyond the second track. By now, this is a familiar story - anemic bass, too high volume levels that distort at normal listening levels, and shrill, harsh sound. It also sounds hollow and "phasey", which to me suggests low-bit-rate mp3s. There's no clipping, but every track is mastered at the maximum peak level (something which shouldn't happen given the variety exhibited in these songs).

If you've still got the original CD, hold on to it because that sounds wonderful, with warmth, texture, visceral bass. It rocks.

What happened to this disc answers one question. When it comes to reissues of older albums, I've often wished that the remasters could be compared to the original tapes, or even to an LP. Maybe the warmth and texture in the original CDs were actually the byproduct of analog distortion and deteriorating tapes. But when Cream's "Disraeli Gears" and Lucinda's "Car Wheels" have undergone almost exactly the same changes, that tells me the people doing the remastering are just willfully altering it to their own peculiar tastes. (I should have been forewarned by how badly the Universal "deluxe edition" of The Who's great debut album turned out. Lost Highway has denied having anything to do with this reissue, so I assume Universal is again to blame.)

Reviewing the "sound" of this reissue on a car stereo or portable player is missing the point. Does anyone even know what a well-recorded and reproduced piece of music sounds like anymore?







Anmeldelser av: Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears




This is one great ablbum with nealry every song a hit. Her words are like poems to the troubles of everyday life. Her voice is unique like honey over gravel.