"JR" wrote in message


But is she skagged entirely out now or what? Took me five listens
before her last CD sounded quite right, and even now a

I think her style has "distilled" with each subsequent record. Emmylou and
Nanci Griffith's albums have proceeded in a similar fashion ie each new
record sounds a little more spare and simple than the last. Wrecking Ball
by Emmylou is a good example.

Lucinda's debut record on Rough Trade, entitled "Lucinda Williams" is
brilliant and Heidi loves the even older "Happy Woman Blues" on the Folkways
label.

bruce h