Lucinda Williams

Little Honey , the fourth in a series of Lost Highway-issued Williams studio albums released this decade, is yet another steady piece of competent Americana from one of this era's most celebrated songwriters. Each album in the series is nearly as noteworthy as her 1998 classic Car Wheel On a Gravel Road , though none hit the long-labored perfection for which that album is celebrated. Little more need be said if you already count yourself a fan of these recent albums. There are no reinventions on Honey , just a few subtle shifts and scoots to offer the album an identity of its own, and really, sometimes that's all we need from a longstanding singer/songwriter of Williams' stature.

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