| World Without Tears |  | Artist: Lucinda Williams
Label: Lost Highway
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 9,436
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
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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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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 Classic Lucinda - Bluesy, Sultry, Classic Rock May 29, 2010
A. Boyd (Boston MA)
World Without Tears is classic Lucinda Williams - bluesy, sultry, smokey - her voice will always be in a league of its own. Williams is a spirited songwriter with plenty of attitude, plenty of edge. This is roots/blues, roadhouse rock at its best, and Williams is cut out of the same cloth as Neil Young and James McMurtry. Is there any bigger complement? Pure integrity. This is only one of many quality Lucinda Williams albums - Little Honey is recommended here as well.
GENRES: Rock, Mellow Rock, Blues.
BUY IF YOU LIKE: Neil Young, James McMurtry.
MUST HEAR TRACKS: "Righteously," "Ventura," "Bleeding Fingers," "Sweet Side."
so honest and beautiful December 6, 2009
Barry J. Middlebrook
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a blues album. It's both beautiful and raw and touches that part of you where old flames lie. I find her voice so unique and emotional. It's perfect for the type of music she writes. I don't know about it being "too honest". Sometimes that's the kind of music you want to hear. I love the combination of deep emotional themes coupled with her sexy voice. Great stuff!
 Music to whine by January 30, 2009
Richard Gibson (Woodland Hills, CA)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really liked "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road." I thought that Williams had an idiosyncratic, original country sound somewhat like Steve Earle, but without his macho. She also wrote some really nice lyrics on that one. At her best, Lucinda Williams has a real poetic touch to her writing, which can be very honest and personal.
But, I am sorry, after buying this album, I am not going to be buying any more of her music. On this album, she did two things that I just can not stand. First, she indulged herself in some cheap anti-American posturing. Nothing original about it; she was just showing that she is cool, because she sees how horrible America is. Second, she went in for a good deal of whining, both personal and political. Everything is horrible, America is hideous, life stinks, the world is unfair. Blah, blah, blah.
I am sorry, but this kind of music is just annoying. No originality, no new insights and (to top it off) if you turned off the lyrics and just listened to the music, it stunk too. Music to whine by. Yuck!!
What is up with that crunchy, harsh guitar? November 4, 2008
Wendy Rubin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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