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July 4, 2001

The Essence of Lucinda

Lucinda Williams wonders what got thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge

West

Lucinda Williams today is a different artist from the one whose disgracefully belated commercial breakthrough came with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road in 1998. That Lucinda had released four albums of her own songs on four labels in eighteen years -- all of which, back to 1980's girlish, strummed-ac...

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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

2006

Live At The Fillmore

2005

World Without Tears

2003

Essence

2001

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

1998

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Lucinda Williams began her career interpreting country, folk, and blues standards with a cool, almost academic reverence for the music. After a second album of original songs, she seemingly vanished for eight years. In 1988 she returned with a vengeance with Lucinda Williams, her highly praised singer/songwriter album that marked a critical turning point in Williams' career. She reached even...

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