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Americana, roots. En beter wordt het niet.

The Americana pioneer delivers a rousing set with a little help from A-list friends including Bruce Springsteen

In late 2020, a stroke impaired the motor skills of Louisiana-born Americana pioneer Lucinda Williams to the extent that it robbed her of her ability to play the guitar. Such is the regard in which she is held, an A-list cast (Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Angel Olsen) has come forward to help out on Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart. 

With that intervention comes the risk of her 15th studio album feeling more like a tribute to Williams than a continuation of her garlanded solo career in its own right.
The more collaborative approach works, however, from the rousing barroom rockers This Is Not My Town and Rock N Roll Heart to the divine Jukebox, a country ballad hymning the redemptive power of music (“I know how to ease my lonely heart/ With Patsy Cline and Muddy Waters”). The desperately sad Hum’s Liquor, meanwhile, is dedicated to the late Bob Stinson (and features his half-brother and Replacements bandmate, Tommy, on backing vocals) and is as bleak a depiction of alcoholism as the Replacements’ own Here Comes a Regular. 

It’s a relief to find Williams as thought-provoking and moving as ever.

Tracks:
1. Let's Get the Band Back Together (4:42)
2. New York Comeback (4:14)
3. Last Call for the Truth (5:24)
4. Jukebox (4:34)
5. Stolen Moments (4:48)
6. Rock N Roll Heart (3:47)
7. This Is Not My Town (5:32)
8. Hum's Liquor (4:06)
9. Where the Song Will Find Me (6:34)
10. Never Gonna Fade Away (5:22)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6MOSoNEHGE