Little Honey Overview
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.
Little Honey Specifications
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
Customer Reviews
Wow, I can not believe the bad reviews and got this. I'm a fan because of their random three albums, so I had nothing to lose, when I heard this, and I liked out of state: fuel some Hank, Earle, Mazzy Star, and Dusty in a pot and add a Casandra Wilson to touch the soul and you have LW. Of course his voice sounds a little 'calculating, sometimes affected, but let me tell you, you heartache really well, as we have said several times, so you now get an eclectic mix of songs, the other tap otherOpportunities. Love the feeling first, tasty guitar work is well remind me of Neil Young with Crazy Horse in time. A little 'tasteful horn work Mephis style here and there. His duet with Elvis Costello is the best honky-tonk, has ever done (believe me, I searched his "country" record). Your opening may be an acquired taste. This is a shock and awe of the quality of some of the songs and some are a bit 'boring (you may know about it) from "what a joke Zen-like is happening,but overall this is a fascinating work, and I do not think it is right to do so until the sacred monsters of the past
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