Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
Flyctory.com Pros
Genre-mix of many Americana-styles
High quality of music, especially intense and great voice
Huge variety of songs
Deep and well-done atmosphere
Flyctory.com Cons
Some of the tracks are simply too deep and intense to me
Some elements felt disturbing to me
Lucinda Williams is quite a big name in the US music business. The 67-year-old, who made it big in folk and country music , released her fifteenth studio album Good Souls Better Angels on 24th April 2020 – definitely a good reason to have a listen into it!
Lucinda Williams – About The Artist
Lucinda Gayle Williams was born on 25th January 1953 in Lake Charles, Lousiana. Her father is a professor in Literature and also an amateur pianist. She grew up at him since her teenage years, when her parents divorced. Despite she never graduated High School, she was accepted to the University of Arkansas. At that time, she already had quite significant stage experience – her stage debut was at the age of twelve. She grew bigger in her mid-20’s when she became comparably famous in the Austin and Houston area. At the age of 25, she released her debut album Ramblin’ on my Mind, which was majorly a cover album and did only have very limited success. The following 1980 album Happy Woman Blues contained own material and had a low chart ranking in Australia . Her career boosted in the late 1980. After a short episode in Los Angeles, she moved to Nashville and signed at Rough Trade. Her 1988 self-titled album made it to the 39th spot in the US charts. Her best performing album was the 2008 Little Honey, which even topped the Australian charts and made it to the US Top 10.
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On the singles side, Williams’ greatest hit is Righteously , which placed in the Top 10 of the US Triple A charts (2003). Another quite important song is the 2001 Essence. Good Souls Better Angels is her fifteenth studio album already. She won three Grammy Awards out of 15 nomination, mainly in the folk genre, where her music moved to over the years.
Good Souls Better Angels – Track by Track
The twelve song album lasts 59 minutes:
1. You Can’t Rule Me
That voice is massive – and the opening song of the album is just a great one, too. It is not the most elaborate song in the history of music , but Williams’ voice just blasts you with power. The old-fashioned, dirty-tuned electric guitar play completes this track in style.
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2. Bad News Blues
No matter where I go I can’t get away from it
Don’t you know? I’m knee deep in it
Who’s gonna believe liars and lunatics?
Fools and thieves and clowns and hypocrites
Gluttony and greed, and that ain’t the worst of it
All the news you could read, all the news is filled to print
Yeah
What a nice track – and yeah, it is really blues sound in Bad News Blues. Again, the electric guitar and the catching voice are the key musical elements of the track.
3. Man Without A Soul
Three tracks, three very different characters: Man Without a Soul is a comparably slow song, the vocals often feels like spoken words, which make them feel very intense. The song is very vocal-centric, but the guitars got their time and give the track a big touch of blues rock. 5:31 minutes, by the way – Lucinda Williams’ song are not necessarily all made for the radio stations, only two tracks are less than four minutes.
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4. Big Black Train
I don’t wanna get onboard
I don’t wanna get onboard
I don’t wanna be no special rider
I don’t wanna get onboard
Big black train
Big black train
I don’t wanna get onboard
That big black train
Just the electric guitars and some background drums very much in the background – the very slow and soulful Big Black Train is having a super-intense atmosphere. As you see in the lyrics, these might not be too versatile, but instruments and vocals do the songs here and feel impressive.
5. Wakin’ Up
But I’m waking up from a bad dream – this track does everything to create the corresponding feelings. Intense bass play, very selective electric elements but especially a very scary and dirty way to sing – Wakin’ Up reminds of of 1960’s and 1970’s psychedelic songs. To me, it is a bit too much, but you can’t argue it’s got a certain touch.
6. Pray The Devil Back To Hell
The title of this song does not give too much hope that the sixth track will be less scary than the fifth one. Again, Lucinda Williams perfectly uses her raspy voice to create atmosphere – the instrument do what is needed to support it. Her songs are long, but typically have a certain dramatic plot, which don’t make them feel too boring – I have to admit that I for this track, it does not work for me at all.
7. Shadows & Doubts
Shaows & Doubts is a very characteristic track for the album, as it combines quite a lot of elements. Sometimes it feels like a country (maybe even a Gothic Country ballad), but there is a lot of soul and rock in it as well. The atmosphere remids more of more experimental music times, when the people were filled up with weed on the Woodstock Hills. Again, it is a track which feels a bit too intense for me.
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8. When The Way Gets Dark
I am really glad that this song is more melodic again, even though the steel guitars are played with massive vibrato and thus give a quite disturbing sound to me. The vocals are in the clear focus of this comparably short song (3:26 minutes) – even they are comparably clear. Not too bad, but a bit too overdone to me.
9. Bone Of Contention
What is that? Again, Good Souls Better Angels provides me with a song, which is a cocktail of different genres. Her singing feels like the performance of a hard rock band sometimes, the guitars are played hard as well. But overall, the song is more a blues-country-hard rock thing, which feels completely weird and crazy towards the end. Maybe some Woodstock leftovers?
10. Down Past The Bottom
Down Past The Bottom is a song, which makes me happy again. I enjoy this rocking interpretation of this genre mix, which you would likely call Americana rock in order to make the long list of influences short. Compact, powerful, relatable – or simply: good!
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11. Big Rotator
God is a big rotator
Spinnin’ the world like a top
And John is a revelator
Way up on mountain top
Justice is a motivator
Bring the world to a stop
Evil is the instigator
Bleeding the world, drop by drop
If you wouldn’t know about the production and promotion cycles of music albums, you could feel some tracks are some sort of Lucinda Williams’ soundtrack to the Covid-19 crisis. This one would be a perfect fit to the threads and feelings the world is currently undergoing. Passionate and catching.
12. Good Souls
Here we go, the final track – and Lucinda Williams celebrates the grand finale: if you listen to it completely, you need to open your ears for the next 7:35 minutes. However, this time is well invested, it is a track, which is – likely some songs at the beginning – giving me an easy time to listen to it and to enjoy it. Nice song, which is with its Keep me with the good souls // with the better angels also somehow the title track of the album.
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Good Souls Better Angels – Spotify
Here is the Spotify widget to the album:
Good Souls Better Angels – My View
Lucinda definitely knows to do her kind of music. Her voice is an amazing asset. Good Souls Better Angels touch a lot of elements and uses her strengths in an impressive way. As said above, it is sometimes very tough and intense music, sometimes it is for me too hard for me to stand, but I guess that’s what some critics call a masterpiece. There is no chance to argue against that the album has a great musical quality, some tracks are just too deep to me. But if you like her style of music, you will be absolutely flashed, I am sure.
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Already the second EP of the year - while Lauren Alaina gave us her Getting Good in March 2020, she is ...
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Her personal greatest hits - for her 2020 album ... but I'd rather be with you Molly Tuttle is taking a ...
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Music marketing made in the US: Courtney Cole had released three songs in the previous times already - at the ...
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Cayllee Hammack fascinated the German fans with her 2020 C2C appearances in Berlin. On 14th August 2020, she released her ...
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I definitely like the powerful RaeLynn. After one EP and one album, the Texan girl is presented her new EP Baytown ...
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Lindsay Ell is definitely one of the finest Canadian artists in the country music scene. After releasing some of the ...
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I ran into a preview of Mary Chapin Carpenter's 2020 album The Dirt and The Stars just early in the week ...
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Not only after I met her at her Nashville fan party at during CMA Fest 2019, I love Cassadee Pope ...
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Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...
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One of the really interesting releases of 24th July 2020 was Firecracker by Emilia Quinn. The young artist has received quite ...
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Strange times in Nashville: when the Gaslighter album was originally planned to be released, the three legendary country music ladies combo was ...
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I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
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I did not have too many new releases for 3rd July 2020 on my list. The more I felt interested ...
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Call it an appetizer, a preview or whatever you like - Tenille Townes released her EP Road To The Lemonade ...
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Gabby Barrett made it well in American Idol and even better with I Hope. The fans were waiting for her debut album, ...
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I ran into Hannah White and her band project, The Nordic Connections, for the first time during the British Country Music ...
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Drug abuse, being jailed for robbery - Jaime Wyatt already had quite some negative experience arriving in Nashville as a ...
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It feels a bit like Ilse deLange wants to push towards the German music market nowadays: the Dutch country and ...
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Sara Evans is back with a new album - and the title Copy That can be interpreted quite literally: her tenth ...
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Sarah Darling's Campfire Sessions, which cover acoustic cover songs which are recorded like in that intimate atmosphere, gained quite some popularity ...
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Lena Stone is already quite well-known to insiders of the Nashville country music scene. After a good debut EP in ...
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Bree Doster draw some attention her her during the last year already, when she released her Chasing Ghosts. Now, on 17th ...
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Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...
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I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...
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Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...
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Rhett Akins once said about Sykamore "I read her name, I was curious...I saw her face, I was intrigued...I heard ...
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Ruthie Collins' musical career is one which is so similar at many Nashville artists: she decided to go to Nashville ...
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Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...
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After More Hearts Than Mine boosted Ingrid Andress country music career to a major level, the US country artist released her ...
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Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...
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After her career with Gloriana, Rachel Reinert decided in 2017 to leave the successful project and go solo. On 13th March 2020, ...
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After I enjoyed a great show by Brandy Clark in Amsterdam in January 2020, I was really looking forward to ...
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Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...
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The Secret Sisters siblings had quite quick success after they formed in 2009. Last Friday, on 28th February 2020, they released ...
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"Just" being very talented in producing good music is not sufficient - you just need the piece of luck, meeting ...
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Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
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In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...
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Not just because Tenille Townes will be part of the European Country 2 Country festivals in March 2020, she is ...
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Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...
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Her first album release under a record deal - I was very curious about Tenille Arts's second album Love, Heartbreak, & ...
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Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...
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Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...
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While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...
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British independent country music artist Vic Allen is not just a lovely person and friend of mine, but also a ...
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Typically, I plan the albums and EPs I am going to review some one to two weeks ahead and also ...
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When my appetite for country music intensified some three years ago, I also ran into the music of Meghan Patrick, ...
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Trisha Yearwood - definitely one of the very big names in country music business. Nowadays the wife of Garth Brooks, ...
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Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...
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While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...
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During my visit at the 2019 CMA Fest, I was just overwhelmed of the sheer mass of young talented musicians ...
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The sheer number of talents in US country music is massive. Some even make it to Europe quite early in ...
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Runaway June are a US country music trio. I saw them for the first time at the Country 2 Country ...
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Wonderland is the fifth studio album of US country singer and songwriter Sarah Darling. Sarah released it on 7th June ...
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Running out of Road is not only a song of Lauren Jenkin's first album No Saint, it is also a short ...
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On 8th March 2019, just when the Country 2 Country festival in London was about to start, Maren Morris released ...
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Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...
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