With the release of Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, Lucinda Williams has been in the music industry for a long time. The double album of the 61-year-old roots singer follows a re-release of her self-titled breakthrough album, which existed for more than a quarter century in January 2014. Williams takes the decades of experience with it on her eleventh album, which nevertheless also contains
… a number of firsts. The album will be released on her brand new own label and for the first time contains a song based on a poem by her father Mitt Williams. The title Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone comes from him. Other notable contributions come from master guitarists Bill Frisell and Tony Joe White. Their tantalizing fuzzy solos are only matched in intensity by the raw throat of their client, which after all always goes through the bone. As is often the case with double albums, Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is a very long one and that while Williams certainly still had enough material for a third disc. However, it clearly shows that the singer / songwriter still has enough to say. (JE)more
