Music CD - Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears

	Music CD: World Without Tears Artist: Lucinda Williams List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $6.36 Your Save: $ 7.62 ( 55% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Lost Highway
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Tracks: 1. Fruits of My Labor 2. Righteously 3. Ventura 4. Bleeding Fingers 5. Over Time 6. Those Three Days 7. Atonement 8. Sweet Side 9. Minneapolis 10. People Talkin' 11. American Dream 12. World Without Tears 13. Words Fell
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0008817035529 Label: Lost Highway Manufacturer: Lost Highway Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Lost Highway Release Date: 2003-04-08 Studio: Lost Highway
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A Woman's Pain Comment: This woman is a poet of growing power, a singer of rare expressiveness, backed by a band that can find its way from a country slide to acid distortion in a few bars. Delicious reverb on some of the tracks, and I cannot resist a quote from one of her many beautifully broken-hearted songs: "I wanna see the ocean bend the edges of the sun..." Gorgeous! I have the 2004 Australasian Tour Version of this Album. Raw language here and there, and rightly so. I'm a guy, but this woman's heart speaks to me. The title song is an amazing piece of lyricism, a bending of grammar and meaning to the purposes of an anguished soul. Her words and rhythms echo in my brain for days after I've listened to her. Whether this lady has the range of genius possessed by Neil Young or Bob Dylan can be doubted but comparisons with those poetic giants are appropriate and deserved. Customer Rating: Summary: Too Incredible for Words Comment: Yes, I'm a huge Lucinda Williams fan. This particular set of songs, however, grabs my heart and never lets go. Lucinda is an American treasure. Customer Rating: Summary: Memorable music you return to Comment: This, slightly reworded, is what one reviewer already wrote: "I am no musician, so I cannot criticize the production, or the writing, or the style or the lack of style. . .I just know what I like." There! That is now the only standard I will use. I listen to a lot of music and now I will just ask myself: Did I enjoy it? (maybe not even why) and, Will I listen to it again ( and again. . .)? I will no longer try and fail and hopelessly muck up things with--what(?) unnecessary information, tangential information--What are these reviews for anyway? To show off silliness? Or, simply, to recommend or to warn. This is music I listen to again and again. Not every song works. (And some--"Righteously,","Atonement,", "Sweet Side," and "American Dream"--I'm tempted to program out). But those that do--particularly "World Without Tears"--move me a great deal. This CD--unlike many, many others--is in a small case which holds 50 CDs, not too far from my stereo. Customer Rating: Summary: Classic Lucinda -- great stuff! Comment: So many good songs... been listening to it non-stop since I got it. Reminds us that buying individual songs isn't the same as listening to an album. Especially one like this where every song flows into the next. Just perfect. Customer Rating: Summary: An absolute classic! Comment: This album is as genuine as they come. Original and straight from the heart. Make sure to add this to your collection. You'll want the whole CD, trust me! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Most artists who appeal to adult listeners tend to settle into a comfortable niche, but Lucinda Williams refuses to play it safe. Instead, her music stings like an open wound, as she continues to strip away the protective layers from her art's emotional core. Though Williams has long been prized for the naked honesty of her music, this collection is even rawer than its predecessors. From the down-and-dirty bar-band blues of "Atonement" to the Rolling Stones-style swagger of "Bleeding Fingers" to the tricky balance of debasement and transcendence in "Ventura," Williams leaves the nerve endings of her music exposed. With the band opting for first-take immediacy rather than polish, some of the most powerful material is also the neediest, as the singer addresses lovers who have disrespected her ("Righteously") or abandoned her ("Those Three Days," "Minneapolis"). Though her attempts at rap on "Sweet Side" and "American Dream" might cause diehard fans to wince, her willingness to take creative chances reaffirms her position at the vanguard of a rootsy progressivism that transcends musical category. Simply put, there's more Patti Smith in her than there is Patsy Cline. --Don McLeese