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Little Honey | 
| Artist: Lucinda Williams
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 43
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001143402
UPC: 602517741737
EAN: 0602517741737
ASIN: B001DXF9JU
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent condition!
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| Tracks:
| ⋅ | Real Love | | ⋅ | Circles And X's | | ⋅ | Tears Of Joy | | ⋅ | Little Rock Star | | ⋅ | Honey Bee | | ⋅ | Well Well Well | | ⋅ | If Wishes Were Horses | | ⋅ | Jailhouse Tears | | ⋅ | Knowing | | ⋅ | Heaven Blues | | ⋅ | Rarity | | ⋅ | Plan To Marry | | ⋅ | It's A Long Way To The Top |
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Amazon.com
Lucinda Williams does anguish and despondency so well it's easy to forget that Happy Woman Blues is not just the title of her 1980 album, but also the way she thinks of herself and her music. That identity comes across with full force in Little Honey, the follow-up to 2007's beautiful, yet heavily brooding West. Here, a full-throated Williams revels in the rejuvenation of her engagement to her manager/co-producer Tom Overby, over whom she's positively giddy on the declarative first song, "Real Love." Her newfound bliss seems to open the floodgates to a musical revival, since Little Honey ranks as one of her most diverse efforts, ranging from pounding rock 'n' roll (the raw sex of the title track) to the Hank Williams-ish country blues of "Well, Well, Well," to "Tears of Joy" and "Knowing"'s '60s soul. Some of the finest writing appears on "Rarity," a loving, but devastating tribute to a fellow artist, and "Plan to Marry," as thoughtful a meditation on love as any time-honored sonnet. Just when Williams seems to have run the gamut, she pulls out a Stones-y (via Louisiana) cover of AC/DC's "It’s a Long Way to the Top" as the punctuation mark to the set. -– Alanna Nash
Album Description
Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey The album features a duet with Elvis Costello "Jailhouse Tears" Other guest vocalists include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Easton and Charlie Louvin. The first single "Real Love" is available for download in the Amazon MP3 store.
Album Description
Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey. The album features a duet with Elvis Costello "Jailhouse Tears" Other guest vocalists include Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Easton and Charlie Louvin.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Little Honey January 6, 2009
Karen Hribick
What a talent for so many years - she continues to grow and expand her many talents -try to buy all her CD's you won't be dissapointed.
One of the Best Albums of 2008 January 3, 2009
Maxwell J. Andrews (Atlanta, G-A)
I've been a casual listener of Ms. Williams through the years, but since purchasing "Little Honey" a few months ago, I've had this album on constant rotation. There simply is not one bad cut on the entire disc (vinyl or otherwise), and have been turning up for my friends at parties, work and new acquaintances at stop-lights throughout Atlanta. "Jailhouse Tears" and "Honey Bee" are my favorites, if I have to list such, but I just cain't git enough.
Lucinda's Back With Another Winner December 29, 2008
Erik North (San Gabriel, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Few people will ever accuse Lucinda Williams of having a perfect voice; it's a deceptively lazy-sounding drawl redolent of her native Louisiana. But in the thirty years she has been at this racket, she has made a very long-lasting career for herself without ever selling millions of albums, and is a critical and commercial favorite. Such things are likely to continue for her with her album LITTLE HONEY.
Once described by Linda Ronstadt, very approvingly I might add, as "a female Neil Young", Lucinda's approach has always been a very rustic mix of folk, blues, rock, and country elements--not quite mainstream popular (yet), but consistent enough; and her songs have always been quite vivid, though frequently melancholy and often quite dark. She's in a better way on LITTLE HONEY, particularly on the upbeat opening track "Real Love", and a little caustic too, as her ode to letting success go to one's head, "Little Rock Star" would indicate. And there's also her cover of AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top", which warns that a rock star life is not like a box of chocolates, in that it ain't always gonna taste good. Guesting with Lucinda on the album are former Bangles leader Susanna Hoffs, Charlie Louvin (of the legendary Louvin Brothers), and, on the country-influenced (and "R"-rated) "Jailhouse Tears", British rock uber-legend Elvis Costello.
Lucinda may always be an acquired taste in terms of voices, but her vision remains as focused as always; and that makes LITTLE HONEY one of the best albums of 2008, and a prime candidate for more awards.
Classic Lucinda December 22, 2008
Up The Stairs (Seattle, WA)
I recently saw Lucinda Williams perform in Seattle, and she did not disappoint. I managed to get the album a week before she played here, and I played it regularly, so when she started playing songs from it, I was there and into them. This album, Little Honey, is quite good and it does not disappoint. It really isn't any better than Essence or Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, and perhaps not quite as strong as they are, but it is a very good album. What it has is variety and new songs. Many of the songs are a bit sluggish, which disappointed me somewhat, as I had heard so much about it being a full ahead rocker, but that's okay. The song that really stands out for me is "Little Rock Star." "LRS" is a serious ballad with a build much like Springsteen's "Racing In the Street," and with much the same theme. Vintage Lucinda. "Real Love" has a wonderful false start, then kicks into gear.
"Honey Bee" is a fine, house rocking, full throated shouting extravaganza. How many times can a song be written with the title "Honey Bee"? I don't know, but I'm glad she managed at least one more. Much more country on this album than in West, but with some fancy rock guitar licks. "If Wishes Were Horses," "Jailhouse Tears," and "Plan To Marry" are all very good country rock tunes with a band that just smokes. This is an album to own. Long Live Lucinda!
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