Lucinda Williams : S& D C or D?

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Just recently bought the new album "World Without Tears" and its superb. So I wondered what else is worth picking up. Is "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" the next best one to get? I did see "Sweet Old World" 2nd hand in the store this week.

― Wayne Lester, Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "Essence" quite a bit, though "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" is well worth getting (especially for "Drunken Angel," which is my favorite Lucinda song). Also search out her (original) version of "Passionate Kisses," which I think is on her self-titled album.

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Sunday, 17 August 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I think they're all worth having, I would rate the next ones to get this way: 1. Car Wheels 2. Essence 3. Self Titled.

If you get any one of those, after hearing it, you'll end up getting the others as well.

― Moss Feaster, Sunday, 17 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the s/t is absolutely essential, the others are good (though I don't much care for WWT) but not as much as the s/t.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 17 August 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Lucinda Williams
2. Car Wheels
3. Sweet Old World

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Sunday, 17 August 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: "Righteously", which is sadly the only song I've heard ever of hers get airplay

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

chris herrington very otm

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If you like World Without Tears, you're in luck 'cuz it's easily her weakest release. (I don't dislike it, exactly, but a lot of it feels kind of stale.) I don't know if I could rank the other 4, except to agree with the consensus that the self-titled and Car Wheels outweigh Essence and Sweet Old World; on the other hand, those latter two have some of my favorite Lucinda songs (the title track on each, "Lonely Girls," "Blue," "Hot Blood," "Something About What Happens When We Talk"). Also necessary is her duet with Steve Earle, "You're Still Standing There," on Earle's "I Feel Alright" (which you should have anyway).

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 17 August 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, her earlier, pre-Self Titled stuff is pretty good. Especially Happy Woman Blues.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Sunday, 17 August 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Her song "Pineola" is a sad masterpiece.

― earlnash, Monday, 18 August 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, self-titled above all. "Car Wheels" feels overworked, maybe 'cause with all that love and care and those gazillion reels of tape, it was. It smacks of Lucinda Doing Lucinda. I own it and haven't played it in years. I prefer "Essence"; at the very least, she was trying something different sonically.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 August 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"all I ask / is don't tell anybody the secrets / don't tell anybody the secrets / I told you"

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ramblin'" = the blues covers one
"Happy Woman Blues" = the finding-her-voice one
"Lucinda Williams" = the essential one
"Sweet Old World" = the one with some of her best songs but terrible, dated production (like really wet drums and cheap-ass keys)
"Car Wheels" = the tediously over-written one
"Essence" = the anti-Car Wheels; it's all about her vocal tone this time (also the one with delicious Bo Ramsey slide guitar)
"World Without Tears" = the one on which she throws a whole bunch of stuff at the wall and only some of it sticks (um, not again with the 'rapping', please), but hey she's 50 and still reaching; it'd be a heck of a lot easier to just retrace old footsteps

― alindall, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been put off her. I mean, she's all right and everything, but I keep hearing how she's the Messiah and this and I figure she don't need me.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"This is a song I wish I'd written... I identify with it as a songwriter... I was driving in Nashville, and this radio station played the whole record -- and the never do that. I had to pull over to the side of the road, and I sat there and listened to the whole record. This record is so beautiful, and this is one of the best songs on it. The whole record plays beautifully."

--Lucinda Williams on Yo La Tengo's "Tears Are In Your Eyes" (off And Then Nothing... recorded in Nashville by Roger Moutenot)

ps: the above was found in a coffee shop this morning as I waited for a co-worker was getting coffee.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It's OK, you can say you were in Starbucks.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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