- Audio CD (27 July 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Extra tracks, Import
- Label: Koch Records
- ASIN: B000007NYS
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 91,029 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. I Just Wanted To See You So Bad |
| 2. The Night's Too Long |
| 3. Abandoned |
| 4. Big Red Sun Blues |
| 5. Like A Rose |
| 6. Changed The Locks |
| 7. Passionate Kisses |
| 8. Am I Too Blue |
| 9. Crescent City |
| 10. Side Of The Road |
| 11. Price To Pay |
| 12. I Asked For Water (He Gave Me Gasoline) |
| 13. Nothing In Rambling (Live) |
| 14. Disgusted (Live) |
| 15. Side Of The Road (Live) |
| 16. Goin' Back Home |
| 17. Something About What Happens When We Talk (Live) |
| 18. Sundays (Live) |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Because this 1988 album produced hits for others ("Passionate Kisses" for Mary-Chapin Carpenter, "The Night's Too Long" for Patty Loveless), Williams is best known as a songwriter. She certainly deserves the rep: her "Side Of The Road", for example, expresses the tension between loving another and remaining yourself better than any song ever written. But what makes this album so special is her voice. When she sings about wanting to visit "Crescent City", she packs more sheer longing into her delivery than even the greatest of songs could express. And, bonus, Lucinda Williams is chock full of great songs. --David Cantwell
Product Description
Catalogue number KOC-CD-8005 on the Koch label with an 8 page (16 side) front insert lyric booklet and 18 tracks.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Lucinda's 1988 album has a lighter touch instrumentally than the recently acclaimed "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", but is no less rewarding. Some of the songs here have been recorded by other artists, but Lucinda's originals often show a delicacy and wistfulness that the cover versions lack. Though I miss the sheer attack of Mary Chapin Carpenter's vocal on "Passionate Kisses", Lucinda's treatment has a certain Tex-Mex swing that lifts the song clear of pop territory. "Crescent City" possesses a similar feel, with Doug Atwell's fiddle and snatches of Louisiana French in the lyrics conjuring up images of Lucinda's childhood in the South. If ever a single track clinches an album, "Side of the Road" must be the one. A song about finding one's own space is propelled beautifully by Gurf Morlix's guitar. Lucinda's vocal is pristine and Atwood's fiddle so atmospheric that you could almost be standing alongside her on the highway, watching the farmer's wife who "takes her hair down at night". In the crowded field of American singer-songwriters, Lucinda Williams has few peers.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This classic album is full of emotionally compelling songs in the folk and country traditions, boosted by the spirit of rock 'n roll. There's worth in the Emmylou Harris comparisons as far as the material and themes are concerned but Lucinda's sound leans more towards folk-rock. I can just imagine how her music would sound if it had a fuller country instrumentation - still superb, but different. Her songs are literate, mature and emotionally gripping, poetic in a down-to-earth way. My personal favourites on an album of uniformly great compositions include The Night's Too Long, a song of yearning and liberation that reminds me of Emmylou's song "Red Dirt Girl." Big Red Sun Blues is a burst of power that does have some country twangs and Passionate Kisses is a catchy love song, while Am I Too Blue sees her firmly in the country tradition again. Thematically, there are touches of Springsteen here too, as on Crescent City and Side Of The Road. It's poignant to hear a line like "My brother knows where the best bars are" when one is familiar with the title track and songs like Pineola and Little Angel, Little Brother on her Sweet Old World album. Many songs on Lucinda Williams have been covered by other artists, proving the quality of this masterpiece.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As Emmylou Harris remarks in the sleeve notes ' Just when you thought there were no more truths to be unearthed in the human heart, along comes Lucinda Williams who plows up a whole new field ' and how very an apt description of not only Lucinda Williams but this album is.Some quite outstanding ' written from the heart ' tuneful and lyrical songs here and the whole band sounds great.Not only country but Lucinda does marvellous justice to her blues covers and in particular Howlin' Wolf's ' I Asked for Water ( He Gave Me Gasoline ) ' and the great addition of the bonus tracks including ' Nothing in Rambling ' ' Disgusted ' and ' Goin Back Home '. I can't recommend this album enough for sheer quality and Lucinda's delivery of the songs.A really pure feel surrounds the whole album, as though it was recorded after someone left the windows open and the fresh air just wafted in.
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"She doesn't fit neatly into any of the established categories"
My headline quote comes from Miller Williams, Lucinda's father and it's very apt. On the outside of the sleeve there are quotes from three distinguished ladies from the C&W world,... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dangerous Dave
Lucinder rocks!
I've only recently discovered just how good Lucinda is, I listen to country so how I missed discovering her before I don't know, in 4 months I've purchased 12 CDs I'm that blown... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dave F
How can I hear this album outside of buying it?
I have only just got to Lucinda Williams via seeing her perform 'Overtime'on Jules Hollands UK programme. I was bowled over and want to get some of her albums. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2010 by winetourist
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