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  • Summary: The singer-songwriter re-recorded songs from her 1992 album Sweet Old World along with four bonus tracks not on the 1992 release.
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  • Record Label: Highway 20 Records
  • Genre(s): Country, Folk, Americana, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Folk, Alternative Country-Rock, Heartland Rock, Alternative Folk
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Something About What Happens When We Talk
Gurf Morlix guitar/background vocals Duane Jarvis guitar John Ciambottio bass Donald Lindley drums Jim Lauderdale harmony vocals Skip Edwards... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. 100
    It’s a revelatory affair, bringing a fresh, raw focus to brilliant songs steeped in lust, death and loss with a blend of sly rockabilly and blues-tinged country-rock.
  2. Oct 19, 2017
    90
    Redoing an entire album is a surprising and bold move, but on This Sweet Old World the gambit pays off. It’s anything but a retread. The album offers the pleasures of familiarity--we Lucinda Williams fans have loved the songs for a quarter-century--while giving these gems new settings that make them shine all the more brilliantly.
  3. Magnet
    Nov 21, 2017
    80
    Williams is competing with listeners' ingrained memories of these songs and thta can be a challenge. But the rock songs rock harder, the swampy blues groove more deeply, and the "He Never Got Enough Love" rewrite tells a better story. [No. 148, p.60]
  4. Oct 19, 2017
    70
    Lucinda Williams is an artist with the confidence to say what needs to be said, and the power to back it up. On This Sweet Old World, she might be repeating the words, but she's hardly repeating herself.
  5. Oct 19, 2017
    70
    This is a set of great songs from a master tunesmith, and Williams performs her material with greater intelligence and soul than anyone else could muster.
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