Album Review: Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World

Lucinda Williams, “This Sweet Old World”(Highway 20/ Thirty Tigers)- Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams recently made the decision to re-record the entire contents of her much loved  album, “Sweet Old World,” re-vamping the package  with  some fresh new arrangements and the addition  of several  fine tracks that were dropped from the original   release , including “Factory Blues,” “Dark Side of Life” and John Anderson’s “Wild and Blue.” The finished product is much more raw, uncluttered and visceral than the 1992 original and the urgent makeover that stand-outs such as “Six Blocks Away,” “Prove My Love” and “Memphis Pearl” receive elevates them to a whole new musical level in the process – By Kevin Bryan.