Little Honey

Love Lucinda, but not this album.
Thought the guitar mix and guitar sound on this album was awful,
I'm thinking due to the new guitar player. I'm happy Lucinda has
found the love of her life but I sure liked her sad songs a whole
lot better. Only listened to it once but not real eager to listen
again.

What a talent for so many years - she continues to grow and expand her many talents -try to buy all her CD's you won't be dissapointed.

Lucinda Williams new CD "Little Honey" gives one a steady listen but nothing to really shout about. I was wanting something a little different from one of my favorite singer/songwriters. The best tune in my opinion is "Jailhouse Tears" and that is probably because it is a duet with "my Man" Elvis Costello. It's just more of Lucinda being Lucinda, same ole, but I guess that's Okay.

I've been a casual listener of Ms. Williams through the years, but since purchasing "Little Honey" a few months ago, I've had this album on constant rotation. There simply is not one bad cut on the entire disc (vinyl or otherwise), and have been turning up for my friends at parties, work and new acquaintances at stop-lights throughout Atlanta. "Jailhouse Tears" and "Honey Bee" are my favorites, if I have to list such, but I just cain't git enough.

Few people will ever accuse Lucinda Williams of having a perfect voice; it's a deceptively lazy-sounding drawl redolent of her native Louisiana. But in the thirty years she has been at this racket, she has made a very long-lasting career for herself without ever selling millions of albums, and is a critical and commercial favorite. Such things are likely to continue for her with her album LITTLE HONEY.

Once described by Linda Ronstadt, very approvingly I might add, as "a female Neil Young", Lucinda's approach has always been a very rustic mix of folk, blues, rock, and country elements--not quite mainstream popular (yet), but consistent enough; and her songs have always been quite vivid, though frequently melancholy and often quite dark. She's in a better way on LITTLE HONEY, particularly on the upbeat opening track "Real Love", and a little caustic too, as her ode to letting success go to one's head, "Little Rock Star" would indicate. And there's also her cover of AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top", which warns that a rock star life is not like a box of chocolates, in that it ain't always gonna taste good. Guesting with Lucinda on the album are former Bangles leader Susanna Hoffs, Charlie Louvin (of the legendary Louvin Brothers), and, on the country-influenced (and "R"-rated) "Jailhouse Tears", British rock uber-legend Elvis Costello.

Lucinda may always be an acquired taste in terms of voices, but her vision remains as focused as always; and that makes LITTLE HONEY one of the best albums of 2008, and a prime candidate for more awards.