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Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Lucinda Williams

Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Eleventh studio album from the Grammy award winning Americana singer-songwriter and first on her own label

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8.0

Label
Highway 20
UK Release date
29/09/2014
US Release date
30/09/2014
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  1. 10.0 |   The Independent

    A magnificent, career-defining set, full of hard-won wisdom, assertive independence – and compassion in abundance
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  2. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    It feels like the deepest and most soulful album she has made
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  3. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Delivers again with this 20-track helping of sharp-edged rock’n’roll, cut with bluesy phrasing, dirty country and a soulful twist
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    A soul-drenched renaissance. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    One of her most wide-ranging and satisfying collections. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Williams has assembled many guest musicians this time around, but despite all the disparate talent, the album is a tight, coherent work that never devolves into self-indulgent jamming, even at an epic 103 minutes
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    It's as pure, straightforward, and compelling as anything she's done since Essence
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  8. 8.0 |   The FT

    Alongside songs on regret and anger comes a gritty kind of redemption, bulwarked by soulful keyboards and guitar solos
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  9. 8.0 |   Q

    Dirty Realist roots-rock has a queen, and it's Louisiana's Lucinda Williams. Print edition only

  10. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    There's a new emphasis on fire and brimstone, gospel rock'n'roll on songs like "Protection," "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "Everything But The Truth"
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  11. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    This album stands with Williams’ strongest work and represents that rare thing in American popular music and its culture of celebrity: a performer who is comfortable in her own skin, even if it isn’t, and hasn’t been for some time, the skin of a teenager.
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