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Lucinda Williams - Essence Audio CD

A fair review of the Lucinda Williams "Essence" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Lucinda Williams reviews here, or go back to the Lucinda Williams tabs.

Lucinda Williams Band: Lucinda Williams
Title: Essence
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Release Date: 2001-06-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Lonely Girls 2: Steal Your Love 3: I Envy The Wind 4: Blue 5: Out Of Touch 6: Are You Down? 7: Essence 8: Reason To Cry 9: Get Right With God 10: Bus To Baton Rouge 11: Broken Butterflies

Song "Essence" - Pure Open Female Sexual Passion! - 'Nuff Said!
Even, or maybe especially, on songs in which she sings about hard-earned and -lived / female experiences of loss and pain, she still allows herself to sing too sweetly. I dare any heterosexual Man to listen to the song "Essence" and not feel totally turned on sexually! And, he will find himself thinking, "Why can't All Women so freely express pure, physical sexual desire just like 'we' do?" This song alone is worth the price of admission!

Lucinda Williams' presents her songs far often using a voice of sweetness far too often for me. And, far too often, on both her songs of existential pain and her fewer songs of joy, she uses her always-great bands too often to present slow-tempo, sweet music. For me, this let's Men and Life far too far off the hook for our Sin and Selfish Egoes! Its as if she is usually partially repressing her true emotions and experience of pain, loss, anger, and, even, rage!

The song "Essence" is one song on which she sings, and she has her band play, consistent with the PAINFUL fact that (in the case of this song) Life, Love, Body and Sex REALLY MATTER! Man or Woman, we can each find ourselves either experiencing part of our Jungian True Self and finding some Meaning and Purpose in our Life; or, we can find ourselves only proving, once more, that we have been too attached to the "Other", without retaining our own separate Self. So, once again, we lose again and end up in pain and alone (as opposed to in peaceful solitude.

Not that she should sing the same way on all songs. (And, especially, she should not try to add a
Dylan-esque quality to her voice just for show or even for fun. ) But, I LOVE the fact that she is able to use her voice as a multi-faceted instrument. That's a rare gift! A wonderful gift!

I don't know all her music very well, so I could be off base. But, I still love to listen to "Essence" and just get HOT in my loins and want, right then and there, to experience free, expressive sex with a free, expressive Woman (who also helps me to be a free, expressive Man). .


The title says it all.
Not as folksy as "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", but it is full of emotion. This is my favorite Lucinda William's CD and I have most of them. The series of songs from Blue->Out of Touch->Are You Down->Essence are all classic to me. It's a good album to listen to if you are in love (Essence) or out of love (Are You Down). The album ends on two songs which don't quite have the bite of the others; otherwise I would have rated this a 5.


Baby, Sweet Baby
It was at Memorial Stadium, which is a bad place for live music (accoustically), but the song Essence just blew me away. I saw Lucinda at Bumerbershoot in Seattle this summer. Quickly it has become my summer of '08 theme song. I'm an old fart, and I like every kind of music, but she seems to have the ability to hit that bluesy nerve right smack dang hard and sexy too. Makes me want to do a little dance with a shady woman in a smoky honky tonk. Gonna have to review her entire song book on Itunes and make my own LW's greatest hits CD . . . definitely going to include that Drunken Angel song too. .


Lucinda delivers
Lucinda Williams is always on top of her game. This is anice collection of songs from this talented singer/songwriter. Her story telling ability shines through once again. She is one of the most talented females in the music business, never a disappointment. Her imagery conjures up tangible feelings in the listener.


Wow
I had high expectations from reading the other reviews, but I was totally unprepared for what I heard. I've wanted to check out LW's music for a few years now and finally jumped in with this CD and was blown away. Gritty, smooth, musical, instantly likeable etc etc. LW's voice and delivery is like the light coming from a lighthouse on a foggy night. Unforgettable. I own over 500 CD's and listened to a lot of artists, LW and this CD have moved up to near the front of the pack. I can't wait to buy some more of her music.


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