Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears.(Lost Highway) After Car Wheels on a Gravel Road A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. They are common in less-developed nations, and also in the rural areas of developed nations such as Canada and the United States. and the underestimated Essence, Lucinda Williams
This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. hasn't lost any of the lonely roadweariness that characterizes her writing. World Without Tears pillories the vagrants that rotate through her heart ("Those Three Days") and wrecks exacting vengeance on bejeweled be·jew·eled or be·jew·elled adj. Decorated with or as if with jewels. tent preachers ("Atonement")--her world a constant search for some semblance of inner serenity, pushing vainly against the rubbery gossamer film of bad habits, bad judgment, and bad men. If this isn't enough, the good men are flawed ("Sweet Side") or outcasts ("People Talkin'"), and life deals crooked hands ("American Dream American dream also American Dream n. An American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire: "). One hesitates to suggest that Lucinda's ridin' high when everything's so low, but that would seem to be how she best tells her story. |
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