Lucinda Williams-Sweet Old World (1992)


 

Artist: Lucinda Williams

Title: Sweet Old World

Label: Chameleon/Elektra

Format: CD

Cat: 61342-2

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition: US 1992

Sell Price: $3.99 VG+/VG+ 2/22/23

Discogs Last Sold: 3/3/23 NM/NM $15.23

Low:$1.95

Median: $4.00

Average: $5.27

High: $19.15  M/M sealed

Current low price: $3.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25

Have/Want: 908/51

Where Sold: Lake Grove, NY

Time it took to sell:  11 years

Where and When Sounds NYC St Marks used

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

I managed to ignore Sweet Old World until I heard Emmylou Harris playing on a record store stereo covering the title track on her Wrecking Ball album.  The song blew me away enough to send me down an Emmylou rabbit hole around that time.  Oddly enough, I was well familiar with Lucinda's earlier "Passionate Kisses" and Car Wheels On The Gravel Road was still a delayed rumor in the media.

I'm further shocked that I wasn't alerted by my old radio partner in crime, John, that this closed with Nick Drake's "Which Will," since we knew "Passionate Kisses" so well.  But that is how it goes, sometimes it takes some time to hear something.  Or it did.  Or maybe he did and I plum forgot.

The opener here, "Six Doors Down" reminds me of the Left Banke's "She May Call You Up Tonight."  The other standouts for me are "Lines Around Your Eyes" and the head turning crime drama "Pineola."  The 80's drum mix, while annoying, isn't overwhelming, enough that Donald Lindley can get an emphatic snare to mimic a gunshot lyric .  "Americana" didn't exist yet, this was a rock record still.

Rock, Letterman friendly, that is.

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