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| | West | | | Music Artist : | | Lucinda Williams | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Lost Highway | | Release Date : | | 2007-02-13 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Are You Alright?
2. Mama You Sweet
3. Learning How to Live
4. Fancy Funeral
5. Unsuffer Me
6. Everything Has Changed
7. Come On
8. Where Is My Love?
9. Rescue
10. What If
11. Wrap My Head Around That
12. Words
13. West
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Sweet, tender, pain, love and loss
Submitted on: 2009-10-08 |
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The first time I can recall knowing about Lucinda was on a tribute to Gram Parsons show with the some of the best and well-known alternative country singers. I didn't pay much attention then and I knew of her as one who was in that crowd.
I have so enjoyed this CD, I love her raspy voice, the lyrics filled with hurt, pain, loneliness, wonderment, sex, love and loss. Listening to this is like having her for a morning of conversation, telling you what is going on lately and with beautiful musical melody. Especially with Fancy Funeral, which I believe she had just lost her mother. There is a sweet tribute to her mother called Mama You Sweet.
One of my favorites is Are You Alright? It's the craziness of love, when someone walks out on you, with no explanation, nothing.
Listening to this is also like one long song, beautiful arrangements, sexy voice, and pleasing musical sounds. It's about the lyrics, her message, the tone.....Rizzo
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 Sorry Lucinda
Submitted on: 2009-07-01 |
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| I am a huge fan but the truth is this album is a big step down from the levels she achieved with Carwheels and continuing with her next two albums. "I'm Learning How..." is an absolute classic. For that alone I give the album two stars. The rest of the material ranges from mediocre to stuff that is cringeworthy. Her attempts to loosen things up and write stream of consciousness lyrics or perform in a totally spontaneous way plays to her weaknesses. Lucinda is best when she creates finely crafted songs and then works with a good producer to hone the sound of each song. Sorry Lucinda. |
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 Another Great Lucinda Williams CD!!!!
Submitted on: 2009-02-22 |
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| There have already been plenty of reviews, I just want to say, this is a great cd. I really liked the song "Wrap my Head" (Wrap my Head around That). This is a great cd, and I recommend it. Thanks!!! |
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West
Submitted on: 2009-02-06 |
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| I'm sorry to say this is the first Lucinda Williams cd I've purchased. I've often thought of giving her a try, rather than just catching her on public radio but for some reason I never did. West is an excellent record..vocals, arrangements, musicianship, tone...and I popped this in after listening to Megadeath before it!! Gonna grab her earlier cd's now, I'm hooked. |
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 Slow Draw Lucinda
Submitted on: 2009-01-30 |
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I first heard the compelling nasally slow draw (in the good sense) voice of Lucinda Williams on tribute albums. First, on the Hank Williams tribute album, "Timeless", where she did a cover of his classic tale of love's trials and tribulations "Cold, Cold Heart". I mentioned in a review of that CD that very seldom did anyone cover a Hank Williams song better than he did himself. I noted the exception of Lucinda on that rendition of "Cold, Cold Heart". I also made the same statement on her cover of Mississippi John Hurt's "Beulah Land" on his tribute album. Finally, I noted the fine job that she did on a duet with John Prine on "Wedding Bells" on his "In Spite Of Ourselves" cover album of country classics.
That said, although I have high, very high regard for Ms. Williams' cover work I am more ambivalent about her own albums. This album under review is such a case. I do not understand what is driving her on some of these songs. She, obviously, can write thoughtfully of love, lost, the cruel nature of the world, her family and other subjects but for the most part that feeling I got from the above-mentioned efforts is missing here. A few do, however, stand out. "Mama You Sweet", "Words", "West" and "Rescue" clearly rise to the occasion. As I say, the rest is so-so and suffer a little from trying to cross-over from her country base.
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