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- Date: 2007-12-07 - Word Count: 410
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Listening to Lucinda Williams sing is like sipping warm whiskey from an ice-less glass while gently rocking in an antique chair on the wood plank floor of a ranch in Texas - with the temperature over 100 degrees and just enough wind to make the tumbleweed rock slightly every few minutes.
She is truly a one of a kind aberration of an artist on today's landscape of singer/songwriters. I would say that she hasn't really changed that much over the years, and stylistically, that would be correct - but the truth is she keeps getting better at it - even when you are certain she can't top her previous best. "West" is just such a CD. She continues to weave in and out of alt-country, blues, rock, and pure country - and yet somehow listening to her CD this is all absolutely coherent. In fact, it's this sort of musical shape-shifting that makes "West" such a pure joy to own.
Personally, the highlights of this CD are many - "Are You Alright" is a haunting ballad about someone staring into the empty hole left by the sudden vacancy of a partner in a relationship. "Wrap My Head Around That" may be about that same relationship - but from a different stage in emotional evolution - here Williams is clearly pissed off about it all, and she says so in no uncertain terms, in what is probably the most "alternative" sounding track on the disk. "Unsuffer Me" seems to be yet a new perspective on lost love - and is a growling, snarling blues rocker that exemplifies nerves burned raw, from love gone bad. The rest of the CD sifts through different moods and emotions, and every track is worthy, but I would have to add as my last favorite the song "Words." On this track, the music is not so much upbeat as uplifting, and seems to perfectly answer all of the feelings expressed in the other tracks. It's not hard to imagine that someone did indeed break her heart before she put a single word or note to music when creating "West", and that it truly is her summation of the experience, bared for the world to get a glimpse of just how she felt - and for my money, she couldn't have done it better. Lost love of some kind is a universally shared experience, and so I find it hard to believe that anyone could listen to this CD and not feel their heart nod "yes."
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She is truly a one of a kind aberration of an artist on today's landscape of singer/songwriters. I would say that she hasn't really changed that much over the years, and stylistically, that would be correct - but the truth is she keeps getting better at it - even when you are certain she can't top her previous best. "West" is just such a CD. She continues to weave in and out of alt-country, blues, rock, and pure country - and yet somehow listening to her CD this is all absolutely coherent. In fact, it's this sort of musical shape-shifting that makes "West" such a pure joy to own.
Personally, the highlights of this CD are many - "Are You Alright" is a haunting ballad about someone staring into the empty hole left by the sudden vacancy of a partner in a relationship. "Wrap My Head Around That" may be about that same relationship - but from a different stage in emotional evolution - here Williams is clearly pissed off about it all, and she says so in no uncertain terms, in what is probably the most "alternative" sounding track on the disk. "Unsuffer Me" seems to be yet a new perspective on lost love - and is a growling, snarling blues rocker that exemplifies nerves burned raw, from love gone bad. The rest of the CD sifts through different moods and emotions, and every track is worthy, but I would have to add as my last favorite the song "Words." On this track, the music is not so much upbeat as uplifting, and seems to perfectly answer all of the feelings expressed in the other tracks. It's not hard to imagine that someone did indeed break her heart before she put a single word or note to music when creating "West", and that it truly is her summation of the experience, bared for the world to get a glimpse of just how she felt - and for my money, she couldn't have done it better. Lost love of some kind is a universally shared experience, and so I find it hard to believe that anyone could listen to this CD and not feel their heart nod "yes."
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