Released August 25, 1992 | Length 45:27 Release date 25 August 1992 | |
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Lucinda williams sweet old world
Sweet Old World is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released on August 25, 1992.
Contents
- Lucinda williams sweet old world
- Lucinda williams sweet old world live
- Critical reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Charts
- Songs
- References
Lucinda williams sweet old world live
Critical reception
Sweet Old World was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album was "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant [with] short-story details ('chess pieces,' 'dresses that zip up the side') packing a textural thrill akin to local color". In a contemporary review, Audio magazine said Sweet Old World proves Williams is "a riveting writer and performer whose apparent simplicity is merely the entranceway to a rewarding artist of depth", while Stereo Review wrote "She delivers her searing lines without artificial sentiment or extraneous embellishment, just a wrenching directness that nourishes the spirit and knows no detour to the heart."
In a retrospective review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Dave Marsh later wrote Williams was a "damned determined artist" on Sweet Old World, in which the perspectives of her previous work--"adult, Southern, female, sensual but neurotic"--were stronger and more focused. AllMusic's Steve Huey said it was just as good as her 1988 self-titled album, calling it "a gorgeous, elegiac record that not only consolidates but expands Williams' ample talents." Like her self-titled album, Bill Friskics-Warren wrote in The Washington Post, Sweet Old World showcased Williams' "sharply drawn odes to desire and loss", sung with a "grainy drawl" and backed against a "lean, bluesy roots-rock" sound.
Track listing
All songs written by Lucinda Williams except where noted.
- "Six Blocks Away"
- "Something About What Happens When We Talk"
- "He Never Got Enough Love" (Williams, Betty Elders)
- "Sweet Old World"
- "Little Angel, Little Brother"
- "Pineola"
- "Lines Around Your Eyes"
- "Prove My Love"
- "Sidewalks of the City"
- "Memphis Pearl" (Williams, Lorne Rall)
- "Hot Blood"
- "Which Will" (Nick Drake)
Personnel
Charts
Billboard Music Charts (North America) – Sweet Old World
Songs
1Six Blocks Away2:52
2Something About What Happens When We Talk3:47
3He Never Got Enough Love3:53