Essence | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lucinda Williams
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 6704
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.3
MPN: 008817019727
UPC: 008817019727
EAN: 0008817019727
ASIN: B00005B8GS
Release Date: June 5, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Lonely Girls | | • | Steal Your Love | | • | I Envy The Wind | | • | Blue | | • | Out Of Touch | | • | Are You Down? | | • | Essence | | • | Reason To Cry | | • | Get Right With God | | • | Bus To Baton Rouge | | • | Broken Butterflies |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Few artists in recent memory have been able to wring more from less than Lucinda Williams. The hauntingly beautiful, wistful, and often breathtaking Essence is another case in point of how far raw emotion and honesty can carry an artist. Williams's singing is at its paralyzing best throughout 11 bare originals, an incredibly affecting vocal performance by a woman who was not blessed with exceptional tone, range, or pitch. Throughout, her voice is incredibly naked, vulnerable, and wrought with feeling. "Blue" and "Broken Butterflies" are gorgeous anti-lullabies whose simple melodies belie their poignant ruminations. The title track is a sultry and susceptible sex-as-drug come-on while "Reason to Cry" has all the hallmarks of a classic country lament. The only departure from the subdued mood is "Get Right with God," a rousing gospel tune that practically begs for salvation through punishment and is the rare acknowledgement of a world beyond Williams's own fears and desires. More meditative than the personal narratives found on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence is ultimately more powerful. Williams wallows in sorrow and weakness, and the result is moving and disarming. --Marc Greilsamer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 177 more reviews...
 Baby, Sweet Baby September 21, 2008
Big Mike (Seattle, Washington)
I saw Lucinda at Bumerbershoot in Seattle this summer. It was at Memorial Stadium, which is a bad place for live music (accoustically), but the song Essence just blew me away. Quickly it has become my summer of '08 theme song. I'm an old fart, and I like every kind of music, but she seems to have the ability to hit that bluesy nerve right smack dang hard and sexy too. Makes me want to do a little dance with a shady woman in a smoky honky tonk. Gonna have to review her entire song book on Itunes and make my own LW's greatest hits CD ... definitely going to include that Drunken Angel song too.
Lucinda delivers May 4, 2008
Karen Read (Dallas, Texas USA)
This is anice collection of songs from this talented singer/songwriter. Lucinda Williams is always on top of her game. Her story telling ability shines through once again. She is one of the most talented females in the music business, never a disappointment.Her imagery conjures up tangible feelings in the listener.
Wow April 28, 2008
KC Stud
I've wanted to check out LW's music for a few years now and finally jumped in with this CD and was blown away. I had high expectations from reading the other reviews, but I was totally unprepared for what I heard. Gritty, smooth, musical, instantly likeable etc etc. LW's voice and delivery is like the light coming from a lighthouse on a foggy night. Unforgettable. I own over 500 CD's and listened to a lot of artists, LW and this CD have moved up to near the front of the pack. I can't wait to buy some more of her music.
Wow, this is the start of something... April 17, 2008
Edd Anderson (San Diego)
This was the work that I started to realize that Lucinda Williams was not only a great song writer/performer, but a true musical icon. She keeps pushing the envelope, and has the talent and dedication to go even further. If it has her name on it I will buy it, and if it is like "World Without Tears" or "West" I will by copies for gifts.
Great CD April 1, 2008
Stuart Floyd (New York, NY)
Lucinda is just fantasic and writes and sings from the heart and loved her when I saw her in concert in NYC a few years ago.
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