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Sales Rank: 1032
Category: Music
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Publisher: Lost Highway
Studio: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
Label: Lost Highway
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001143402
UPC: 602517741737
EAN: 0602517741737
ASIN: B001DXF9JU
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Real Love | | • | Circles And X's | | • | Tears Of Joy | | • | Little Rock Star | | • | Honey Bee | | • | Well Well Well | | • | If Wishes Were Horses | | • | Jailhouse Tears | | • | Knowing | | • | Heaven Blues | | • | Rarity | | • | Plan To Marry | | • | It's A Long Way To The Top |
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Album Description
Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey The album features a duet with Elvis Costello "Jailhouse Tears" Other guest vocalists include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Easton and Charlie Louvin. The first single "Real Love" is available for download in the Amazon MP3 store.
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Lucinda Williams does anguish so well it?s easy to forget that Happy Woman Blues is not just the title of her 1980 album, but also the way she thinks of herself. That identity comes across full force in Little Honey, the follow-up to 2007?s heavily brooding West, where her melancholy voice seemed to creak with sadness. Here, a full-throated Williams revels in the rejuvenation of her engagement to her manager/co-producer Tom Overby, over whom she?s positively giddy on "Real Love." Her newfound bliss opens the floodgates to a musical revival, as well, since Little Honey, her ninth studio album, ranks as one of her most diverse, ranging from pounding rock ?n? roll (the raw sex of the title track) to the Hank Williams-ish country blues of "Well, Well, Well," to "Knowing"'s ?60s soul. But some of the finest writing appears on "Plan to Marry," as thoughtful a meditation on love as any time-honored sonnet. Just when Williams seems to have run the gamut, she pulls out a Stones-y (via Louisiana) cover of AC/DC?s "It?s a Long Way to the Top" as the punctuation mark. It all makes for a rollicking ride with one of roots-rock's most unpredictable and passionate artists. -? Alanna Nash
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 Circles and X's May 23, 2009
Lucinda Williams has so many songs. Ones that people love because they provide company for pain and anger and lust and love. Sometimes I wince at the nakedness of "Pineola" but then I thank her for showing me that the right words can describe each of the places we've seen.
And, once you thank her for that, you realize how carefully she writes. There are many reasons why I love the line "I guess I'll never know why something as good as this could flower up and die." For starters, I simply appreciate her pointing out the expression "flower up and die." Not a beautiful bouquet of flowers but the end of a life.
I want to talk about the song "Circles and X's." I haven't heard anyone else talk about it. I take my time with a new Lucinda Williams CD. When I first bought "Little Honey", I probably passed by this short song but eventually I came back to it. I had no idea what it was about. The chorus of the song is:
"Circles and X's by your name. Day after day will bring a change. Some things will stay the same. Circles and X's by your name."
What is she talking about? I decided to find out. For a couple of weeks, I probably listened to that song a hundred times. Maybe I'm slow but at least I didn't give up. My respect for her as a poet did not allow me to dismiss the song and I fought with each of the clues until I finally got it. I almost ran off the road when it dawned on me. She was talking about two things I knew very well. But I had never realized the connection before.
Go ahead and read the lyrics of the song. Here are some of the clues that I found:
The song is about a short meeting between two people. "You stay for just a little while." But there is something unusual going on. In the first two lines, we're told that it's raining cats and dogs outside. Then "the sky is big and open." Then, at the end of the song, the sun is shining. That's impossible. Wait. The sky is big and open when the visitor cracks a smile. The sun is only seen as a reflection off the visitor. And, not only that, but the morning hears the visitor sigh. How can morning hear a visitor sigh? This visitor must be very important if even nature changes around him.
"The vows have all been broken." She sits and sobs. But, when he leaves, he still turns around to wave goodbye and he lingers. Sound familiar to anybody? Why did he come by that morning?
"Circles and X's by your name. Day after day will bring a change. Some things will stay the same. Circles and X's by your name."
 Another Great Album for Lucinda Williams April 24, 2009
Little Honey caught me by surprise. I had heard Cars on a Gravel Road and several other Lucinda albums, but Little Honey is very different than it's predecessors. Now don't get me wrong. Lucinda is still bringing the bluesy/rock/alt-country madness that she always brings, but this album seems much more passionate and much more emotional than some of the other albums. Little Honey drips with intensity and you can feel every song.
I don't really think there is a bad song on the album, but a few really stand out for me. In particular, I fell in live with "Little Rock Star", "Honeybee" and "If Wishes Were Horses". But probably the highlight was Lucinda ripping through the AC/DC classic, "It's a Long Way to the Top". She absolutely kicks butt on this track and, in my opinion, brings new life to the song.
Simply put, this is one great album.
 A Mixed Bag April 13, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The good news is that Lucinda seems upbeat again a little over a year after the dirge that was "West". The rockers and honky-tonk tunes are a pleasure to hear. My favorite kind of Lucinda song would be "If Wishes Were Horses". It's the most direct link to the albums that made her a legend and would fit easily on her eponymous 1988 set or "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road". The duet with Elvis Costello seems like a love it or hate it deal. I love it for carrying on the tradition of Johnny and June's "Jackson" and even Shane and Kirsty's "Fairytale of New York". The clunkers here would be "Little Rock Star" and the insufferable "Rarity". Lucinda's too talented to muck things up with this kind of overindulgence. Lately she's taken to profanity as well and she phrases it like it's a really big deal. It works on "Jailhouse Tears". I cringe to hear her drop "F--k your respect" on "Rarity". Basically, "Little Honey" has a handful of good songs, a great one or two, and a new sense of adventure that might explain some of the uneven moments. Lucinda can and will do much better work, but even on a bad day, she's better than most.
Honey, Do. April 4, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Imagine if Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road had been backed into a garage. That is what you'll find on her 10th album, "Little Honey." She takes the dark moodiness of "West" and chucks it aside for a stack of amps while allowing her band (Buick 8) a chance to let the fur fly. The result, from the loud and simplistic "Real Love" to the dry as a bone remake of Ac/Dc's "It's a Long Way To The Top" makes this Williams' best in many a moon.
That is not to say she has left her alt-country world behind. There's a great duet with Elvis Costello on "Jailhouse Tears" and the beautiful "Circles and Oh's." (Williams was part of Costello's Delivery Man team.) There's an 8 minute centerpiece called "Rarity" that echoes everything great about Williams' long career as a confessional singer-songwriter, her rough-hewn voice hitting the perfect spot throughout. It's just that while "Little Honey" remains a roots-rocking album, this time it's less about the roots and more about the rocking. Fans still clutching their 20 year old copies of Lucinda Williams might be put off by this, but it just makes this "Honey" all the sweeter to these ears.
 Weak song writing/selection - drab, repetitive arrangements March 29, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like Lucinda Williams. But "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", this ain't.
Mainly:
1. There are far too many slow, dragging songs that go nowhere.
2. The recording quality is just too loose.
Songs like "Honey Bee" are too over the top in their attempt to sound like they are just open, echoey, raw banging in a garage.
The wonderful story-telling isn't there, the melodic hooks (like on "Right In Time" from Car Wheels) aren't there. And even her singing sounds sleepy, distant, and well, just lazy.
I gave it only 1 star because honestly, after giving it a good bunch of listens, putting it away for a few months, then taking it out again and giving it another try, I think it's bad enough that I'll never play it again.
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