Lucinda Williams: Blessed

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  • Label: LostHighway, 2011
  • Order number: 1441380
  • Release date: 28.2.2011
  1. 1 Buttercup 3:51 Start
  2. 2 I Don't Know How You're Livin' 4:59 Start
  3. 3 Copenhagen 4:31 Start
  4. 4 Born To Be Loved 4:38 Start
  5. 5 Seeing Black 5:17 Start
  6. 6 Soldier's Song 6:14 Start
  7. 7 Blessed 5:47 Start
  8. 8 Sweet Love 3:34 Start
  9. 9 Ugly Truth 4:25 Start
  10. 10 Convince Me 5:46 Start
  11. 11 Awakening 6:27 Start
  12. 12 Kiss Like Your Kiss [With Elvis Costello] 3:51 Start
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Considered by many to be one of America’s greatest living songwriters, Williams lives up to that and more by delivering 12 new songs that cover an even wider emotional spectrum than her previous work, without moving too far in any one direction.

Blessed opens with the gritty kiss-off “Buttercup” and moves seamlessly into the sultry blues of “Born To Be Loved”. Williams delves into a heavier subject as she questions the motives for a suicide on the hard-driving “Seeing Black”, which features blistering guitar from Elvis Costello. The thoughtful title track slowly builds to a melodic climax as it gives an eye-opening look at what’s right in front of us, but too often unnoticed. On the gorgeous “Kiss Like Your Kiss”, Williams lays down one of the most beautiful and fragile vocals she has ever recorded, while the poignant and powerful “Soldier’s Song” simultaneously tells a tragic story of the soldier overseas and his wife and child back home.

It’s nothing new to see Williams tug at the heartstrings and stimulate the mind in her songs, but there is a vibe throughout Blessed that is unique to this album in particular. It’s the sound of the wisdom and experience Williams has gained through her years as an uncompromising talent. Combine that with Grammy Award-winning producer Don Was at the helm, and something special is born. Was co-produced Blessed with Eric Liljestrand and Tom Overby, who co-produced Williams highly-praised Little Honey (2008). Blessed features special guests Rami Jaffe on keyboards, Matthew Sweet on vocals Greg Leisz and Elvis Costello on guitar.

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,,"Blessed" ist eine magische, erschreckende, berückende Momentaufnahme, ein Triumph über die Banalität amouröser Zerwürfnisse. Dann ist der Schmerz des Augenblicks verglommen." (Rolling Stone, 04 / 2011)

,,Entscheidend prägen Greg Leisz (Gitarren) und Rami Jaffee (B3 und Akkordeon) den Sound." (stereo, 05 / 2011)

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