- Record Label: Highway 20 Records
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
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Oct 19, 2017It’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.
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Oct 19, 2017Redoing 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.
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MagnetNov 21, 2017Williams 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]
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Oct 19, 2017This 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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Oct 19, 2017Lucinda 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.