It was eight years before Lucinda Williams put out another album. Eight years! Whether that was due to choice or bad luck, I don’t know, but when she finally did release her follow-up to Happy Woman Blues, it was well worth the wait.

Lucinda Williams is one of those albums with a reputation that far exceeds the success it enjoyed when released. There’s a famous saying about the Velvet Underground’s first album that only 100 people heard it but every one of them was inspired to start a band. And I think the same could be said of this album.

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