Little Honey
In the decade since breakthrough Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams has increased her output considerably, but the quality of her work has suffered; on Little Honey, she thankfully makes nods toward her strengths and suppresses most of her more unsavory musical habits.
Like Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A., Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels On A Gravel Road was that rare album that perfectly summed up everything an artist stood for while crafting songs loaded with hook after hook. And like Springsteen after Born, it left Williams nowhere to go but sideways. Since Wheels' 1998…
Lucinda Williams has made a career of writing terrific unrequited love songs, shattered ballads, and sexually liberated tomes drenched in blues, country, folk and rock.
<p>The bones of Williams's unique brand remain beneath an eclectic, upbeat musical skin</p>
Throw on Lucinda Williams’ new album, Little Honey, and the first thing you hear is the disheveled jumble of a false start.