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12/17/2008 - Little Honey: 2008 Accolades

In 2008, Little Honey made a huge impression on longtime fans of Lucinda Williams but the new studio album also converted many new enthusiasts for our Queen.  Below is an expansive directory of praise Ms. Williams received from Critics on their year-end...
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12/10/2008 - Another 4 Stars for Little Honey

Lucinda Williams relies on her road band, Buick 6, from the false start of “Real Love” that kicks off Little Honey to the final gospel-blues assault on AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top” that tucks it away. Wit this tour-tested chemistry behind her,...
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12/7/2008 - Honey's Upbeat & Ferocious

Lucinda Williams’s West, in 2007, was a stunning effort, her strongest in nearly a decade. Yet it was an emotional downslide, and its cathartic declarations of unrequited love no doubt took their toll in the ensuing months onstage. At some point, she...
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12/6/2008 - Poetic, Searing Insta-Classics in Honey

Lucinda Williams, Little Honey - On her ninth studio album, country rock’s deftest songwriter oscillates between dispensing friendly advice to “little rock star[s]” and marveling at the layers of passion and intimacy—and despair—she continues to discover,...
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11/28/2008 - FOUR STARS for Little Honey

"Is your death wish stronger than you are?" Lucinda Williams asks in "Little Rock Star," a cautionary song swathed in guitar noise that someone should instant-message to Pete Doherty, Ryan Adams and Amy Winehouse. While it shows that the 55-year-old...
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11/24/2008 - Live Show is Crazy, Bluesy, Sexy, Playful, Rockin' Good

How good was Lucinda Williams' performance Friday night at the Wiltern? Crazy good. And sane good, sexy good, playful good, anguished good, angry good, cathartic good, brawny good, rockin' good, bluesy good -- head, heart and soul good. Above all, the...
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11/17/2008 - Williams Rocks Seattle

Beginning her two-night run at the tight downtown Seattle venue Showbox at the Market, Lucinda Williams was pert, poignant, and a powerhouse of rock 'n' roll. And a picture of contentment all evening long. Though dressed demurely in plain...
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11/6/2008 - Williams on All Things Considered

A Lucinda Williams album is what you put on when you're feeling raw and need the company of a sad song. After all, she's one of those artists who's been through it all — with a scratchy, full-throated voice to match. The Billie Holiday of alternative...
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11/6/2008 - Little Honey: True & Real

"Throw a wide loop," my dad used to say, and Lucinda Williams has certainly thrown her widest musical loop yet with Little Honey. After 2006's dull, disappointing West, Williams sounds like a woman with her groove back, mixing blazing steroidal rockers...
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11/6/2008 - Williams is Sweeter Than Ever

Lucinda Williams is the first official "country" artist that we’ve featured thus far in our "On The Download" column here at AccessHollywood.com, and what more credible artist could we suggest to you? If you haven’t heard of Lucinda, you’re not...
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11/4/2008 - A- for Little Honey

It's hard to believe Williams took a six-year break between albums in the '90s. Since 1998 she has reliably been releasing strong, often heartbreaking discs with seemingly effortless ease. Little Honey continues the string, with the proviso that...
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11/4/2008 - a Worthy Follow-Up to Honey

Close on the heels of her excellent studio release "Little Honey," Lucinda Williams is out with a four-song live EP of political protest songs. Kicking off a trio of covers recorded in September 2007 in Greensboro, N.C. is the quintessential protest...
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11/3/2008 - Lu in '08

When Lucinda Williams fans pick up the Louisiana native’s 10th LP Little Honey on Oct. 14, they might be surprised by the closing track, a cover of AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll).” But the bigger surprise might come two...
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10/29/2008 - Alt-Country Queen Comes Roaring Back

The first thing Lucinda Williams announces on her ninth studio album is that she found the love she was looking for standing behind an electric guitar. Twelve songs later, she signs off with a bit of wisdom from the late Australian philosopher Bon...
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10/29/2008 - Phenomenal '92' for Little Honey

Lucinda Williams has a great laugh—it’s a joyful sound to hear on the aptly titled Little Honey, the 10th album in her three-decade career. A sweet sense of renewal imbues Williams’ latest work, which encompasses all the elements of her eclectic...
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10/29/2008 - Honey's Rocking

"That song and this one are real country music," quipped Lucinda Williams between two songs from her new album, "Little Honey," at the Riviera on Friday night. "Country music that's too country for Nashville." The words, while delivered with...
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10/28/2008 - 3 1/2 Stars for Little Honey

Her new album may be titled Little Honey, but Lucinda Williams has never been the sugary type. She keeps it raw on this strong follow-up to last year's excellent West, which finds the rootsy singer-songwriter veering more toward rock on tunes like the...
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10/28/2008 - Lucinda-On Record, Extended & Uncut

On this album, are the lyrics a product of automatic writing, or did you work on them and revise them a lot? It’s funny, a couple of the songs I wrote a long time ago, like “If Wishes Were Horses” and “Like Circles for X’s.” Well, I had ‘em mostly written...
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10/23/2008 - Whatever It Takes: Lucinda Williams

Over the last three decades, Lucinda Williams' reputation slowly grew to the point that she's now routinely cited as one of the best songwriters of her generation. Yet during that time, the building blocks of her songs have remained essentially the...
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10/23/2008 - Williams Finds Her Joy

From the false start on the opening rocker "Real Love" to the fade-out of AC/DC cover "It's a Long Way to the Top," anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams may notice something unusual while listening to her new disc. After years without it,...
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10/23/2008 - Lucinda's Q&A with Details

With a healthy relationship and a creative spurt she calls the most prolific in her career, alt-country's queen of pain and heartbreak sounds sweet—and shockingly upbeat—on her ninth studio album, Little Honey. Here, she gets in touch with her feminine...
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10/23/2008 - Why Lu Loves the Valley

The People Sometimes it’s hard to live in a city and feel comfortable with people all of the time but the people of The Valley are some of the nicest folks I’ve ever met. They remind me of the people I grew up with. They have families and regular jobs...
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10/23/2008 - How Lucinda Got Her Joy Back

In order for Lucinda Williams to write a song, the conditions have to be perfect. "Nobody can be around," she says. "I like to be totally alone. I get out my guitar, and I spread all of my notes across the kitchen table." In early 2005, being alone...
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10/21/2008 - Little Honey Debuts in Billboard Top 10

Little Honey debuts in Billboard's Top 10. The #9 spot marks a career-high for the multi-Grammy winner, Lucinda Williams...
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10/20/2008 - Lucinda WEBCAST: October 23!

Three-time Grammy Award-winner, Lucinda Williams, will make her October 23rd concert at the legendary First Avenue in Minneapolis available to all as a free audio webcast.
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10/17/2008 - Finding Her Honey

After nearly three decades of writing songs about life's dead ends and the men who've done her wrong, Lucinda Williams has finally released a record that critics have deemed her "happy album." Wouldn't you know it, though, she's not actually happy...
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10/17/2008 - Williams: Chicago Preview

Finding love, finding fame Although Williams is generally known as an album-oriented artist, her singles receive significant airplay on satellite radio and progressive rock stations. Her current single, "Real Love," has reached No. 22 on...
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10/16/2008 - Bubbling Over with Unrequited Love

IN LAST YEAR'S WEST, Lucinda Williams turned her grief to her advantage, crafting some of the most intense songs of her career following the loss of her mother and a failed relationship. Now she's in a new one, with co-producer Tom Overby (the other...
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10/15/2008 - Songs in the Key of Joy

Lucinda Williams is known for her brokenhearted country rock songs. She's recorded songs about suicide, one-night stands and changing the locks after a breakup. Her album, "Little Honey," due out Tuesday, finds the 55-year-old singer-songwriter in a...
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10/15/2008 - Catching Up With... Lucinda Williams

Whatever the subject matter, Lucinda Williams’ music has always dripped with the feel of the old, rural Deep South, but as I talk to her before the release of her 10th record, Little Honey (out Oct. 14), she’s at her home in Los Angeles, having just...
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10/15/2008 - Pick of the Week

"Honey Bee" - USA Today's Pick of the Week

Guitar strings and buzzes awhile as Lucinda snarls her way through the rockin' role of Queen Bee, complementing Slim Harpo and the Rolling Stones' classic King Bee in the musical apiary. Oh, beehive!
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10/15/2008 - 3.5 Stars for Little Honey

Perfectionism has its place, and it's hard to argue with the results when it comes to the music Lucinda Williams has created in the years that typically elapse between each of her albums. But there's a raw energy on "Little Honey" -- which arrives this...
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10/14/2008 - Sweetness and Light

While assured of her status as a great American singer, Lucinda Williams has never been most people's idea of an easy one--someone whose music you'd trot out at a wedding, say, or any other event where keening is frowned on. Williams isn't po-faced;...
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10/14/2008 - 4/4 for Little Honey

Country rocker Lucinda Williams, well-known for her moody introspection, has said she's ''in a different phase of my life, so there are more happy moments'' on Little Honey, her ninth album. Truth is, she sounds downright giddy much of the time. ...
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10/14/2008 - Sassy, Spirited and Defiant

This isn’t supposed to happen. Women in the world of popular music are’t supposed to hang around in the public eye well into their 50s. If rock ’n’ roll, as the old saw goes, is a young man’s game, then pop in general is definitely the provision of hot,...
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10/14/2008 - 5 STARS for Little Honey

Pardon the warped analogy, but if last year’s West was Williams’ Blood on the Tracks, then Little Honey is her Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, a largely ebullient record unbound by anything other than the artist’s enthusiasm for life and, by extension, these...
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10/14/2008 - Blast of Sweetness

'Little Honey" is a fitting title for Lucinda Williams' ninth studio release. For a songwriter whose best work deals in pain, loss, suffering and anguish, "Little Honey" is a bracing blast of sweetness one does not expect from Lucinda. That's the...
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10/14/2008 - Little Honey: the Highest-Octane Music of Her Career

Like most folks, Lucinda Williams is happiest when she’s … how to put this delicately … gettin’ some. She’s spent most of her career mourning men who have wronged her, her bad luck with men and various ways men have let her down. Not that she...
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10/14/2008 - Sweet Spot

The roots-rock queen of heartbreak has finally found her sweet spot. On Little Honey, the ninth studio album from Lucinda Williams, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter counterbalances tales of bitter love with songs of newfound bliss. The former...
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10/14/2008 - Little Honey: It's a Glorious, Glorious Thing

Throw on Lucinda Williams’ new album, Little Honey, and the first thing you hear is the disheveled jumble of a false start. As her band, Buick 6, anxiously waits to kick into the debauched swagger that the opening song is built upon, they all...
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10/13/2008 - WELCOME BACK HONEY

First things first: Little Honey, Lucinda Williams' ninth studio album, out October 14 from Lost Highway, isn't a career-maker. She's already got a career, thank you very much, among the most celebrated in Americana, and she carved out an iconic spot in...
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10/13/2008 - 4 Stars for Little Honey

Williams's ninth album is notable for its lightness of touch. Whether that's the campy duet with Elvis Costello (Jailhouse Tears) or hte sparse ballad for her fiance (The Knowing), she wraps her honeysuckle voice around them all. Little Rock Star's sweet...
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10/13/2008 - Another 'A' for Little Honey

The belle of the Americana ball's ninth studio effort delivers a windfall of wonderful songs, ranging from the rough-around-the-edges rocker "Real Love" to the soulful ballad "Tears of Joy" to the eight-minute epic "Rarity," an ode to an unsung hero. The...
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10/13/2008 - Singing in Character

Great art comes from tortured artists, or so goes the standard trope applied to sad sacks who write beautiful songs or paint compelling pictures. It's just not true for Lucinda Williams, however. Her art suffered in direct proportion to her own...
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10/13/2008 - Little Honey's Broad Palette of Sounds

Lucinda Williams isn't exactly sure what's going on, but she knows it's good. Night after night, she's watching her fans go crazy for her latest songs, even though the album "Little Honey" (Lost Highway) doesn't hit stores until Tuesday. "I remember...
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10/13/2008 - Little Honey Lithographs

As a bonus for supporting your local independent record store, Lost Highway and Lucinda Williams are offering up free Little Honey lithographs with purchase of her new album. Please visit THIS LINK to locate a retailer near you that is currently offering these fine posters.
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10/13/2008 - Little Honey: Powerful + Compelling

A false start kicks off Little Honey, Lucinda Williams' new album. They launch into "Real Love," then stop short, and we hear the song counted off again. It's a seemingly offhand moment, but it announces from the outset that you're listening to a real...
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10/13/2008 - Finding Her Voice

On her latest album, Lucinda Williams chronicles 55 years' worth of love, loss and living in 13 rich songs. Williams, long critically adored, has always been something of a loose cannon, and here her trademark desperate twang recklessly taps into...
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10/13/2008 - Rocked Out and Happy

I'm happy for Lucinda Williams, the perennially bummed country-soul siren who is engaged to her manager, record executive Tom Overby. But I'm happier for her music and her fans. That's because Williams, as divine as she can be when turning sorrow into...
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10/13/2008 - Little Honey Gets Happy

THERE'S something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue on Lucinda Williams' latest album, "Little Honey," out Tuesday. There's even a song called "Plan to Marry" on the record. Still, the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter...
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10/10/2008 - 3 1/2 STARS for Little Honey

Lucinda Williams spent nearly all of last year's "West" in a deeply blue mood, trying to reconcile the loss of her mother and the end of a relationship. She sounded inconsolable, and the record's biggest flaw was how much it drained you to listen,...
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10/10/2008 - Get Some "Real Love"

"Real Love" the first single from Little Honey is now available for purchase at all digital partners. Listen HERE. Then download the new single at Amazon or follow this link to puchase at iTunes.
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10/9/2008 - Little Honey: Perfect Pairing of Bluesy-Rock

Here, Williams’s voice, as cracked and worn as Grandpa’s wallet, finds it perfect pairing with bluesy rock. She’s a honky-tonk woman co-opting Jagger’s swagger on “Honey Bee”; both author and lead subject in the poetic “Knowing.” No one choreographs the...
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10/9/2008 - Honey's Bluesy Sunshine

If you are a fan of Lucinda Williams' music, then you have likely become used to the artist's darker side, which has been readily on display in the music contained in her past couple of albums, including "West" and "World Without Tears." If the...
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10/8/2008 - Little Honey: Soulful, Rootsy

Given her history of misbegotten record deals, drugs, chin-out temperament and stormy romances, Lucinda Williams has a better claim than most to sing AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" —which she does here in a soulful,...
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10/8/2008 - Little Honey: Rockier, Rangier Terrain

I loved Lucinda Williams' 2007 album West, but I was in the distinct minority among journalists who reviewed the album. My sense is this collective response, which featured some of the most vitriolic critiques leveled at Williams in her entire career,...
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10/6/2008 - Williams Lightens Up on 'Honey'

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Thanks to her Southern twang and onstage cowboy hat, Lucinda Williams has long been recognized as a country artist. But her most recent Grammy Award win, in 2001, was for best female rock vocal performance, and on her new album,...
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10/6/2008 - Like a Hurricane

When the country vocalist and songwriter Lucinda Williams first rose to prominence, in the eighties, she was known for being meticulous: she would sometimes take years between releasing albums. As she’s aged, her pace has accelerated. On the heels of last...
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10/6/2008 - Little Honey: Sound Investment

Her voice creaking like an old weather vane, Lucinda Williams heads towards up-tempo country-rock for Little Honey, which ranges from honky-tonk laments (“If Wishes Were Horses”) to the bluesy, sexy swagger of “Honey Bee,” where she outdoes the Rolling...
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10/6/2008 - Honky-Tonk Women

Hot Tracks Honky-tonk women: On Little Honey, Lucinda Williams sounds almost optimistic. For once, unrequited love doesn’t dominate Williams’s unique mix of alt-country-gospel-folk rock, world-weary vocals, and bluesy wisdom (especially noteworthy:...
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10/6/2008 - She's Got Her Joy Back

There are artists who believe it is necessary for them to suffer for their art. There are artists who believe it is necessary for us to suffer for their art. And then there's Lucinda Williams. Though Williams may well be the flagship artist...
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10/6/2008 - Lucinda Williams: NYC Live Review

In case there was any doubt left, Lucinda Williams is now a rocker. Sure, she has built her considerable reputation as an alt-country pioneer and she did deliver the George-Jones-and-Tammy-Wynette styled country charmer “Jailhouse Tears” at the WaMu...
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9/29/2008 - FOUR STARS: Little Honey

For the first time since 1998's Grammy-winning “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” Lucinda Williams balances her bluesy rock side with pain and heartbreak. It's her most cohesive and stylistically diverse record in years, with wild near-garage rockers, dirty...
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9/29/2008 - Kisses, Tears & the Truth

On her upcoming album "Little Honey," Lucinda Williams makes the case that becoming a musician does not exactly put you on the fast track to happiness. In "Rarity," she mournfully tells the story of an ultratalented singer-songwriter who can't...
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9/26/2008 - Fall Music Preview

Longtime Williams fans will notice two conspicuous developments on the follow-up to last year's meditative West. "These are rock & roll songs," she says. "They kinda remind me of the stuff on Car Wheels." Williams also sounds newly upbeat on songs like...
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9/26/2008 - the Queen of Heartbreak Tempts Fate by Cheering Up

Short of having one’s favorite guitar stolen, it is hard to imagine what greater misfortune could strike the country singer than falling happily, healthily and eternally in love. The lifeblood of the genre is that which drips from broken hearts; country...
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9/24/2008 - Little Honey: Sweeter Stuff

When Lucinda Williams finished her 2007 album West, she left the project with an unfamiliar feeling as a songwriter. One might call it security. "When we got done with West, we knew we had another record ready," she says. "We knew we had enough...
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9/24/2008 - Knoxville Preview: Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams' new album, "Little Honey," is a major departure from her previous album. Overall, it might be called a "feel-good" disc. "It was time to feel good," says Williams with a laugh. "It was kinda, partly, coincidental. I don't ever...
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9/23/2008 - Sweet Honey

"Riding down the highway / Going to a show / Stop in all the by-ways / Playing rock and roll / Getting robbed / Getting stoned / Getting beat up / Broken boned / Getting had / Getting took / I tell you folks / It's harder than it looks / It's a long way...
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9/22/2008 - Fall Music Preview

Lucinda Williams' Little Honey is featured in All Songs Considered Fall Music Preview.  While many incredible albums are featured in this segment, you can zip to the 15 minute point to hear the rave review of Little Honey.
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9/22/2008 - Fall Preview: Little Honey

Beyond all the usual good stuff – gravelly blues guitars, distinctive vocals and a studious avoidance of cliché – Lucinda Williams’ ninth album finds her (mostly) playful and at peace. The joy of making music is her subject on “Real Love”. There are a...
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9/16/2008 - LITTLE HONEY in the BIG APPLE Sweepstakes!

Three-time Grammy award winner Lucinda Williams is parting from the countryside and kicking off to the big city -- and Sirius Satellite Radio is hosting the Sweepstakes: Little Honey in the Big Apple!
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9/8/2008 - Little Honey

October 14: Lucinda Williams, "Little Honey" (Lost Highway). Sounds like someone put a bee in Lucinda's bonnet, and she's mad as hell on a rocking new album that restores some of the grit of earlier efforts. She's so raw on the title track that you'll...
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9/6/2008 - Williams: Fall Music Preview

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Happiness hasn’t exactly been plentiful in Lucinda Williams’s catalog, but it bursts out on her album "Little Honey," on which at least some of her love songs are joyful ones. Recorded with her road band, the songs set her voice drawling,...
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9/5/2008 - Hot List: "Real Love"

Who says love songs have to be wussy? Lucinda celebrates her fella with chunky guitars, a garage-y beat and her catchiest chorus since "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road."
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8/18/2008 - Little Honey: Adventurous Aplomb

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,...
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8/6/2008 - In The Studio: Lucinda Williams

Roots-rock queen teams up with Elvis Costello on joyful, raucous album…
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7/26/2008 - Williams & Costello's "Jailhouse Tears"

Little Honey hasn't even been released and yet "Jailhouse Tears" the stellar track featuring Elvis Costello is already making waves.  Paste Magazine's High Gravity was so moved that they even compiled a list of the Best Country/Rock Duets.  And yes,...
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12/12/2007 - Grammy Nominations

The 50th Annual Grammy Award Nominees have been announced and we're proud to share with you our artist's well-deserved recognition: Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Lucinda Williams, "Come On" from West Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Willie...
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9/6/2007 - Lu's WFUV Performance Available at NPR

Swing on by NPR and immerse yourself in this lovely feature on Lucinda Williams compliments of NYC's WFUV.   Click here for the item.
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8/30/2007 - Lucinda Live Shows to be Available on CD

As part of her unprecedented five-night runs in Los Angeles & New York City,  Lucinda Williams announces that fans will be able to purchase CD copies of each performance and leave with it that same evening.

In July, the three-time Grammy Award winner, announced that she would be performing five of her eight critically-acclaimed albums [Lucinda Williams (1988), Sweet Old World (1990), Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998), Essence (2001) and World Without Tears (2003)] in their entirety, one album per night.  Following each album performance, Williams and her band will play a second set of material from her 2007 album West along with songs from throughout her career, plus some special surprises.

Now fans will have the opportunity to purchase the first set of each show (the full album performance live) on CD and take it home as they leave each venue. There will be a station in the lobby of each venue for fans to place an order and purchase a voucher before the performance. This will assist production in anticipating the number of CDs needed. In addition, those attending the following night’s performances will be able to purchase the first sets from each prior show in that city.

The performances are as follows:

El Rey Theater - Los Angeles, CA
9/5  - World Without Tears
9/6  - Essence
9/8  - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
9/9  - Sweet Old World
9/10 - Lucinda Williams

Irving Plaza - New York, NY
9/29 - World Without Tears
9/30 - Essence

Town Hall - New York, NY
10/2 - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
10/3 - Sweet Old World
10/4 - Lucinda Williams

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7/23/2007 - USA Today Announces Lucinda Album Tour

Here it is, folks, straight from USA Today's Friday article:

Lately, it has become fashionable among musicians to play "residencies" — an extended series of dates at a small venue. Lucinda Williams is taking that concept one step further in September and October: She'll play five nights in Los Angeles and New York, re-creating five of her albums in their entirety.

Williams plays L.A.'s El Rey Theater Sept. 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. In New York, she'll play two shows at Irving Plaza (Sept. 29 and 30) and three at Town Hall (Oct. 2, 3 and 4). She'll perform an album each night, starting with 2003's World Without Tears, segueing through 2001's Essence, 1998's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and 1990's Sweet Old World, and concluding with her self-titled 1988 album. Afterward, she and her band will play a second set combining songs from 2007 album West and older material.

Tickets go on sale Saturday through Ticketmaster.

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7/16/2007 - Lucinda Williams - WEST - Tour Reviews

Lucinda Williams is just getting started with her tour in support of her new album West. Below are only a few examples of what folks are saying about her incredible performances. Have a read and then swing our tour page to see when she is coming to your town.

Dallas Morning News

NY Sun

Boston Globe

Newsday

Daily Variety

Hartford Courant

Memphis Commerical-Appeal

VenusZine
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6/21/2007 - Lucinda Williams Nominated for 3 AMA Awards

NASHVILLE, TN – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has received three nominations for the 6th Annual Americana Honors & Awards. Williams was nominated for ARTIST OF THE YEAR, ALBUM OF THE YEAR (West) and SONG OF THE YEAR (“Are You Alright?”). The awards were announced at a press conference in Nashville on Tuesday held by the Americana Music Association.

Williams’ latest album West was released on February 13 by Lost Highway. West has been praised by such publications as Rolling Stone, People, Entertainment Weekly, No Depression, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times. Williams recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (June 4) and The Late Show with David Letterman in March.

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6/11/2007 - Lucinda's Picks on Singer-Songwriters

Curious to what Ms. Williams is listening to while on the road?  Lucinda recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss a few of her favorite singer-songwriters.  Have a read and then hit up your favorite indie retailer to grab a few tunes!
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4/23/2007 - Lucinda's World Cafe - Now Streaming Online

The lovely and talented Lucinda Williams recently appeared on NPR's World Cafe to perform four songs and chat with David Dye.  The show is now streaming both at World Cafe's website and here on Lost Highway's site. Click either/or and have a listen!

National Public Radio's World Cafe can be heard on nearly 200 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station by visiting http://worldcafe.org
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4/9/2007 - Lucinda's Current Faves

Curious to know what Lucinda is listening to while on the road?  Take a look at this clip from Best Life magazine to read up on Ms. Williams current favorite artists.
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3/27/2007 - Features & Reviews of WEST

We thought you might enjoy reading some of the amazing reviews and features Lucinda Williams is receiving for her new album, West. We update the list regularly so swing by later and see where else Lucinda has made an impact. Enjoy!

Wall Street Journal

Paste pg1  pg2

People

Boston Phoenix

BlackBook

Relix

Performing Songwriter

Entertainment Weekly

American Songwriter

Nashville Scene

Edge - New York

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3/2/2007 - All Things Considered

Lucinda Williams and West were recently featured  by Meredith Ochs on NPR's All Things Considered.   The segment is now streaming online so swing by and have a listen.
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1/29/2007 - Lucinda Williams - New York Times Playlist

Lucinda Williams recently sat down with The New York Times to discuss some of her new favorite artists.  Curious to know what is in Ms. Williams CD player? Click here to find out.
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10/9/2006 - Car Wheels - Deluxe Edition

Lucinda Williams' Grammy-winning, critically acclaimed masterpiece, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road-Deluxe Edition hits stores on October 24th.

DELUXE EDITION HIGHLIGHTS
• Full project participation by Lucinda Williams.
• Features a newly remastered version of the album!
• Includes 2 previously unreleased tracks: Alternate version of “Still I Long For Your Kiss" and “Down The Big Road Blues.”
• The original un-issued version of “Out Of Touch.”
• Previously unreleased FULL concert performance (WXPN LIVE AT THE WORLD CAFÉ
recorded July 11, 1998)
• Featuring 13 performances drawn from the Car Wheels album, as well as riveting
versions of some of her earlier-penned songs “Pineola,” “Hot Blood” and
“Changed The Locks.”
• Guest performers include Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Sexton and Buddy Miller.
• Deluxe digipak packaging features lyrics, photos and essay.
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7/14/2006 - Lucinda in Rolling Stone

Lucinda Williams recently had a blurb in Rolling Stone! Check it out here.
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1/9/2006 - 2005 WXRT/Chicago Listener Polls

Best 100 Albums of 2005:

37. Lucinda Williams Live @ The Fillmore

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8/9/2005 - Listen to Lucinda's 9:30 Club show on NPR

Click here to listen to a webcast of Lucida Williams at the 9:30 Club in DC this past Sunday.
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4/4/2005 - Lucinda on tour

Check out Lucinda's tour section for the latest dates.
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4/4/2005 - 'Live From Austin, TX' DVD

New West Records is releasing a 'Live From Austin, TX' DVD, in stores May 10th. The footage is from Lucinda appearance on Austin City Limits.
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3/22/2005 - Lucinda Williams, Live @ The Fillmore

Lost Highway has released the first-ever live album from Grammy Award-winning artist Lucinda Williams. Lucinda recorded this collection of live songs over her 3 night appearance at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore Auditorium. Live @ the Fillmore is on double CD and triple LP sets, both featuring deluxe packaging. All 22 tracks that appear in this collection were hand selected by Lucinda. Album in stores now!
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