World Without Tears | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lucinda Williams
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 4860
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 170355
UPC: 008817035529
EAN: 0008817035529
ASIN: B000089RV5
Release Date: April 8, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Fruits of My Labor | | • | Righteously | | • | Ventura | | • | Bleeding Fingers | | • | Over Time | | • | Those Three Days | | • | Atonement | | • | Sweet Side | | • | Minneapolis | | • | People Talkin' | | • | American Dream | | • | World Without Tears | | • | Words Fell |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Most artists who appeal to adult listeners tend to settle into a comfortable niche, but Lucinda Williams refuses to play it safe. Instead, her music stings like an open wound, as she continues to strip away the protective layers from her art's emotional core. Though Williams has long been prized for the naked honesty of her music, this collection is even rawer than its predecessors. From the down-and-dirty bar-band blues of "Atonement" to the Rolling Stones-style swagger of "Bleeding Fingers" to the tricky balance of debasement and transcendence in "Ventura," Williams leaves the nerve endings of her music exposed. With the band opting for first-take immediacy rather than polish, some of the most powerful material is also the neediest, as the singer addresses lovers who have disrespected her ("Righteously") or abandoned her ("Those Three Days," "Minneapolis"). Though her attempts at rap on "Sweet Side" and "American Dream" might cause diehard fans to wince, her willingness to take creative chances reaffirms her position at the vanguard of a rootsy progressivism that transcends musical category. Simply put, there's more Patti Smith in her than there is Patsy Cline. --Don McLeese
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| Customer Reviews:
What is up with that crunchy, harsh guitar? November 4, 2008
Wendy Rubin
I love, love, love the song "Righteously," but cannot listen to it because of that horrible, harsh guitar. It is at odds with the sweet, sexy feel of the song, Lucinda's vocals and the engaging lyrics. Sounds like a musician who is in a musical mid life crisis, selfishly playing heavy guitar licks because he misses his youth, not because it supports the song. Pettibone is a master guitar player, someone should reign him in so he adds to Lucinda's great work, rather than makes it unlistenable.
 A Woman's Pain August 25, 2008
Alastair N. Mcleod (San Diego, California)
This woman is a poet of growing power, a singer of rare expressiveness, backed by a band that can find its way from a country slide to acid distortion in a few bars. Delicious reverb on some of the tracks, and I cannot resist a quote from one of her many beautifully broken-hearted songs: "I wanna see the ocean bend the edges of the sun..." Gorgeous! I have the 2004 Australasian Tour Version of this Album. Raw language here and there, and rightly so. I'm a guy, but this woman's heart speaks to me. The title song is an amazing piece of lyricism, a bending of grammar and meaning to the purposes of an anguished soul. Her words and rhythms echo in my brain for days after I've listened to her. Whether this lady has the range of genius possessed by Neil Young or Bob Dylan can be doubted but comparisons with those poetic giants are appropriate and deserved.
Too Incredible for Words September 8, 2007
Scottiboy (Cincinnati, OH USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, I'm a huge Lucinda Williams fan. This particular set of songs, however, grabs my heart and never lets go. Lucinda is an American treasure.
Memorable music you return to September 2, 2007
The Concise Critic: (New England)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This, slightly reworded, is what one reviewer already wrote: "I am no musician, so I cannot criticize the production, or the writing, or the style or the lack of style. . .I just know what I like."
There! That is now the only standard I will use. I listen to a lot of music and now I will just ask myself:
Did I enjoy it? (maybe not even why) and,
Will I listen to it again ( and again. . .)?
I will no longer try and fail and hopelessly muck up things with--what(?) unnecessary information, tangential information--What are these reviews for anyway? To show off silliness? Or, simply, to recommend or to warn.
This is music I listen to again and again. Not every song works. (And some--"Righteously,","Atonement,", "Sweet Side," and "American Dream"--I'm tempted to program out). But those that do--particularly "World Without Tears"--move me a great deal. This CD--unlike many, many others--is in a small case which holds 50 CDs, not too far from my stereo.
Classic Lucinda -- great stuff! July 13, 2007
L. Schafer (Frenchtown, NJ)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
So many good songs... been listening to it non-stop since I got it. Reminds us that buying individual songs isn't the same as listening to an album. Especially one like this where every song flows into the next. Just perfect.
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