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Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears Audio CD

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Lucinda Williams Band: Lucinda Williams
Title: World Without Tears
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Release Date: 2003-04-08
Media: Audio CD

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

Music to whine by
" I thought that Williams had an idiosyncratic, original country sound somewhat like Steve Earle, but without his macho. I really liked "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. She also wrote some really nice lyrics on that one. At her best, Lucinda Williams has a real poetic touch to her writing, which can be very honest and personal.

But, I am sorry, after buying this album, I am not going to be buying any more of her music. On this album, she did two things that I just can not stand. First, she indulged herself in some cheap anti-American posturing. Nothing original about it; she was just showing that she is cool, because she sees how horrible America is. Second, she went in for a good deal of whining, both personal and political. Everything is horrible, America is hideous, life stinks, the world is unfair. Blah, blah, blah.

I am sorry, but this kind of music is just annoying. No originality, no new insights and (to top it off) if you turned off the lyrics and just listened to the music, it stunk too. Music to whine by. Yuck!!.


What is up with that crunchy, harsh guitar?
It is at odds with the sweet, sexy feel of the song, Lucinda's vocals and the engaging lyrics. I love, love, love the song "Righteously," but cannot listen to it because of that horrible, harsh guitar. Sounds like a musician who is in a musical mid life crisis, selfishly playing heavy guitar licks because he misses his youth, not because it supports the song. Pettibone is a master guitar player, someone should reign him in so he adds to Lucinda's great work, rather than makes it unlistenable.


A Woman's Pain
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. 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. . . " 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.


Too Incredible for Words
This particular set of songs, however, grabs my heart and never lets go. Yes, I'm a huge Lucinda Williams fan. Lucinda is an American treasure.


Memorable music you return to
. 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.


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