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Album Review: Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone

Steve Bell
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"An album that’s timeless, heartfelt and beautiful"

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Lucinda Williams returns with a 20-song double album showcasing her unabashed skills in both songcraft and delivery. It’s tonally diverse – blues, honky-tonk and classic rock flourishes colour the Muscle Shoals-imbued country-soul template – and her laconic drawl is more emotive than ever. The songs are rife with oft-bitter life experience (Cold Day In Hell, Wrong Number, Big Mess) but a ray of light permeates the bleakness at intervals. An album that’s timeless, heartfelt and beautiful despite the omnipresent despair and regret, in that finest country tradition.