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​Lucinda Williams (from the album Good Souls, Better Angels available on Highway 20 Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
She is a singer/songwriter who is equal amounts tender and tough in both words and music. The territory is fertile ground for Lucinda Williams, as she is nimble enough to balance herself right in the middle, the bite coming across via songs that call out or criticize today’s headlines, the sweetness revealing itself in songs of self-contemplation.  On her latest release, Good Souls, Better Angels, presents Lucinda Williams and band punching it up or laying it back as needed, her vocal delivery a long and lazy drawl living comfortably between a lecture and a lyric.
“You Can’t Rule Me” is the dirty Blues opener for Good Souls, Better Angels, where the rowdy Lucinda Williams dares you to knock something off her shoulder.  Good Souls, Better Angels hoists a platform for a pair of critical observations; “Bad News Blues” with Williams ‘knee deep in it’ as she asks ‘whose gonna believe the liars and lunatics, fools and thieves and clowns and hypocrites?’ while “Man Without A Soul” calls out ‘a man bought and sold, you bring nothing good to this world beyond a web of cheating and stealing’. Amidst the burning Blues and gritty guitar riffs, Lucinda Williams sings the hopeful thought of the man in the song ‘coming down’. “Wakin’ Up” has Punk Blues punch, “Bone of Contention” is a gravelly duet, and “Down Past the Bottom”, with its cascading power chords, is dark and dirty. “Big Black Train,” “Shadows and Doubts” and “Good Souls” are ballads, the band laying back behind as Lucinda Williams aches. Rebellious and angry, Good Souls, Better Angels is a Blues record that comes complete with gloriously (and welcome) defiant sneer at the powers-that-be, one that may have fans used to the more ethereal Lucinda Williams by surprise. Forget genre-tattoos of Americana, Folk, when Lucinda Williams shares the stage on Good Souls Better Angels with a Punk and hard-edged Blues crowd. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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