This Sweet Old World Lucinda Williams

• 1 Six Blocks Away 04:13
• 2 Prove My Love 04:53
• 3 Something About What Happens When We Talk 04:44
• 4 Memphis Pearl 04:19
• 5 Sidewalks of the City 05:23
• 6 Sweet Old World 04:45
• 7 Little Angel, Little Brother 04:42
• 8 Pineola 04:18
• 9 Lines Around Your Eyes 02:45
• 10 Drivin' Down a Dead End Street 06:06
• 11 Hot Blood 06:19
• 12 Which Will 04:31
• 13 Factory Blues (Bonus Track) 03:36
• 14 What You Don't Know (Bonus Track) 03:52
• 15 Wild and Blue (Bonus Track) 03:31
• 16 Dark Side of Life (Bonus Track) 03:02
• Total Runtime 01:10:59

Info for This Sweet Old World

Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams releases This Sweet Old World, a re-recording of her beloved 1992 album Sweet Old World to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its release. Produced by Williams and Tom Overby, This Sweet Old World features fresh updated interpretations of songs such as Prove My Love, Sidewalks of the City, Memphis Pearl and Lines Around Your Eyes. With her deeply soulful voice and wisdom gained over the last 25 years, Williams breathes new life into classics Pineola, Sweet Old World, Something About What Happens When We Talk, Little Angel, Little Brother and Nick Drake’s Which Will. Williams and company chose to re-record the four tracks that were not included on the original release. This Sweet Old World features new versions of Factory Blues, Dark Side of Life, John Anderson’s Wild and Blue and the John Leventhal / Jim Lauderdale penned What You Don’t Know.

Lucinda Williams, vocals, guitar, production
Additional musicians:
David Bianco, organ, recording, engineering, mixing
Greg Leisz, guitar, lap steel guitar
Stuart Mathis, guitar
Butch Norton, drums, percussion, backing vocals
David Sutton, bass, backing vocals

Lucinda Williams
was born in 1953 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to a professor of literature and a pianist. Lucinda’s earliest influences in music encouraged her to learn to play the guitar and sing, and by the time she was in her early twenties, she was performing in bars and clubs in the Houston area. Williams’s debut album, Ramblin’, was recorded and released in the late 1970’s, but it did not garner much attention. Neither did the follow-up, Happy Woman Blues, but Lucinda Williams was not discouraged.

Lucinda moved to California in the early 1980’s and began performing around the Los Angeles area. By the latter part of the decade, she’d signed with a record label and released Lucinda Williams, which spawned the single “Changed the Locks,” the song for Lucinda to earn some major radio play. On the strength of this single, Williams began to build a fan base and by the time she released Sweet Old World in 1992, she’d become far more established. Another single from her record label debut, “Passionate Kisses,” actually became one of her biggest achievements, not for Lucinda’s recording of it herself, but after Mary Chapin Carpenter covered it, the song earned Lucinda Williams a Grammy for Best Country Song in 1994.

Since then, Lucinda Williams has continued to release a number of successful albums, including: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998), Essence (2001), World Without Tears (2003), West (2007), and Little Honey (2008.) In addition to her Grammy for “Passionate Kisses,” she has also earned Grammys for the albums Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence, World Without Tears, and Little Honey, and for the singles “Can’t Let Go,” “Essence,” “Get Right with God,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Lately,” and “Come On.” Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is considered to be Lucinda Williams’s mainstream breakthrough, in part due to the song “Still I Long for Your Kiss,” which was featured in the blockbuster hit The Horse Whisperer.

Most recently, Lucinda Williams released the album Blessed in 2011. She continues to record and perform.

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