The holiday music of 2021 may not be plentiful, but there are a handful of very worthy new releases and reissues.

Once again Lucinda Williams excels at making her pain, perseverance and hope relatable to ours, like few others can.

The concensus Something Else! Top 10 for 2014 features Lucinda Williams, D’Angelo, David Crosby, Brian Blade, Seth Walker, Matthew Shipp and others.

S. Victor Aaron picks the best of 2014’s non-jazz albums, including Lucinda Williams, Me’Shell Ndegéocello, Drive-By Truckers and others.

Lucinda Williams’ gruff slur on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” conveys just how few times the fates allow us the moments we’d like.

Lucinda Williams’ ‘Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone’ is an expection to the rule of double albums being full of filler. This one is all killer.

A perfectly calibrated tribute, one full of broken Stonesy grandeur.

Every detail is given the kind of weight only Lucinda Williams can provide.

Here are the seven best albums outside of realm of jazz so far in 2014. So says me.

Ask anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams’ music and early on in their reply they’ll almost surely include mention of 1998’s Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, but Williams’ abilities as a singer and songwriter came to full bloom ten years before. You May Also Like: Lucinda Williams – The GhostsRead More