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	Happy Woman Blues - Lucinda Williams, Music Downloads - Online
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		This Album was released by Lucinda Williams on 06/01/1990
		Review: Williams' first collection of original material -- recorded with a full band -- is stunning for its mixture of blues, folk, and country traditions with her captivating, complex, and visceral approach to writing and singing.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/025/Lucinda-Williams/Happy-Woman-Blues/500000000000021074554.html (100 words)

	Lucinda Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Titled Ramblin', it was a collection of country and blues covers.
		She followed it up in 1980 with Happy Woman Blues, which consisted of her own material.
		A musically adventurous though lyrically downbeat album, this release found Williams experimenting with rap stylings and electric blues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucinda_Williams (643 words)

	Music: Poetry In Motion (The Boston Phoenix . 07-13-98)
		Outside the tiny "Americana" niche market, her rootsy mix of blues, folk, country, and rock may have less hit potential now than ever, yet her renewed mastery of that mix is exactly what makes Car Wheels such a bona fide rave among all those inside factions.
		A tough slow blues for a lost lover ("Still I Long for Your Kiss") is played against a gentle folk number in which the lover is tossed aside ("Greenville"); a smooth Southern rocker mourning a dead friend ("Lake Charles") is balanced by a chiming march angry at a senseless suicide ("Drunken Angel").
		Williams's very first number on Happy Woman Blues was a love song to a town, but here the car wheels on gravel and concrete mostly tear through those Southern towns without stopping.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-13-98/boston_music_2.html (1660 words)

	Technical Ranting and Raving
		In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
		A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues.
		No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
	www.stokely.com /rant.n.rave (1608 words)

	AMZ - December, 1998 -- Lucinda Williams
		A year later she did "Happy Woman Blues," but it would be eight years before she recorded another, her self-titled album, for the Rough Trade label, which also released several EPs over the next several years.
		The album was actually first recorded three years ago, but Lucinda wasn't happy with the sound of her vocals, and after hearing the sound the combo of Steve Earle and producer Ray Kennedy achieved, she decided to try a couple of tracks with them.
		It was a terrific move, for "Joy" was nearly ten minutes of hard-rocking, guitar driven blues, with her pouring it out, and guitar work from Kenny Vaughan and John Jackson, Richard Price on bass and Fran Breen leading the beat on drums.
	www.music-reviewer.com /12_98/featr16.htm (1980 words)

	The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Lucinda Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blues country rock singer/songwriter with a lengthy career who has sparked ecto-interest.
		This is definitely not your typical smarmy Nashville bullshit and hype--it's a gritty and rough-edged tour of the Deep South by a poetess who has been ignored for all of her lengthy career by the public and the critics.
		Like Straw, Williams has a rootsy musical worldview, but where Syd's ambitious songs fly through the air propelled by the influence of both Henry Cow and Patsy Cline, Lucinda's four-on-the-floor country rockers are happy to chug forward, hugging the road with their rhythmic melodies and writerly lyrics.
	ectoguide.org /commentator/rkonrad@ibm.net/williams.lucinda (1382 words)

	Lucinda Williams: Folk & Blues Artist
		Side of the Road is a ringing feminist defense of the need for a woman to retain her independence and self-awareness while in a relationship with a man: I just stood and looked at the open space and a farmhouse out a ways.
		The imaginary happy family in Side of the Road is a mirror image of the first-person narrator, who wonders whether she can find sustenance and support in the midst of her own relationship.
		In Sidewalks of the City each verse begins with a scene peopled by homeless men and woman haunting the city streets and ends with the songwriter pondering her own life, the transitory nature of human love, and the innate frailty of human relationships.
	richards1052.tripod.com /richardshomepage/id27.html (2223 words)

	Amazon.com: Happy Woman Blues: Music: Lucinda Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Happy Women Blues was my first exposure to the authentic and classic musicianship of Lucinda Williams.
		Happy Women Blues is a trip back in time to campfire sessions, small town gatherings and country fairs.
		Happy Woman Blues may not be pristine, but it is sincere - it shows the beginnings of an exceptional talent with a keen ability to approach popular music from a traditional perspective.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001DFT?v=glance (1095 words)

	LUCINDA WILLIAMS - HAPPY WOMAN BLUES - Music and Dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	TrouserPress.com :: Lucinda Williams
		While Ramblin' shows off Williams' affecting vocals and her roots — from the bayou to the church choir to the Opry — the more rock-oriented Happy Woman Blues proves her to be an evocative song-crafter akin to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
		This is an unflinching self-portrait of a woman with mythic powers to remake herself and the world ("Changed the Locks"), to sketch working-class portraits worthy of author Tobias Wolff ("The Night's Too Long") and to let her hair down for a zydeco romp ("Crescent City").
		Passionate Kisses reprises the album's catchy, earnest plea for happiness (a song that became a hit in 1993 for Mary-Chapin Carpenter) and adds tracks from her lean years: three songs recorded live at an LA radio station plus an '83 demo featuring Taj Mahal on guitar and harp.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=lucinda_williams (1120 words)

	World Without Tears - The Right Gift For Him (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From the down-and-dirty bar-band blues of "Atonement" to the Rolling Stones-style swagger of "Bleeding Fingers" to the tricky balance of debasement and transcendence in "Ventura," Williams leaves the nerve endings of her music exposed.
		With the band opting for first-take immediacy rather than polish, some of the most powerful material is also the neediest, as the singer addresses lovers who have disrespected her ("Righteously") or abandoned her ("Those Three Days," "Minneapolis").
		Maybe if you hated your life and everything in it and thought there was nothing happy or good in the world, you would like this album.
	www.therightgiftforhim.com /store/asinsearch_B000089RV5 (376 words)

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		Williams's singing is at its paralyzing best throughout 11 bare originals, an incredibly affecting vocal performance by a woman who was not blessed with exceptional tone, range, or pitch.
		"Blue" and "Broken Butterflies" are gorgeous anti-lullabies whose simple melodies belie their poignant ruminations.
		Her rough but vulnerable, husky, cowgirl voice tells you all you need to know about late nights in bars, too much booze, cigarettes, and a long time looking - and longing - for that one guy.
	www.rpmwebworx.com /cgi-bin/golf-gifts/ae.pl?asinsearch=B00005B8GS (444 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Arts + Events
		It is also slightly more urban — there are a couple of spoken-word sorta-raps on the record — although it’s still heavily steeped in a swampy Southern sensibility, earthy and sensual and profane.
		There is much that is new in World Without Tears, but even a casual listener can connect the musical dots clear back to her 1980 breakthrough, Happy Woman Blues.
		The best tracks follow Williams’ established pattern of combining her raw, wondrous voice with some serious heartache: World Without Tears is a catalog of the many colors of melancholy.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/05_03/05_07_03/art_gordos.html (784 words)

	Blues To Do-Reviews-April 2002
		The daughter of a poet, critic, and English lit professor (and friend of Tom T. Hall), Williams was raised with a scholarly cultivation.
		Teaming up with a full band, Williams quickly followed up her debut with Happy Woman Blues one year later.
		Essentially, it was written over a 10-day period and released just 3 years after her Grammy Award winning 1998 breakthrough Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which took nearly 10 years and several producers to complete.
	www.bluestodo.com /cds/archives/reviews/april2002.htm (587 words)

	Lucinda Williams Happy Woman Blues CD
		Williams' first love is acoustic country blues in the Delta tradition, with RAMBLIN' consisting of respectful covers of country blues classics and this follow-up featuring 11 Williams originals in that style.
		When she returned, with 1989's excellent LUCINDA WILLIAMS, the stark acoustic simplicity of this album was gone.
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	www.cduniverse.com /productinfo.asp?PID=1054969&style=music&frm=lk_1718 (298 words)

	Robert Christgau: Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
		Since cutting her teeth on an acoustic blues collection for the Folkways label in 1979, she has released just four albums of originals in 18 years, each for a different company.
		Immersed in time-weathered musical materials, demonstrating near absolute mastery of the pop songcraft that has been crystallizing at the conjunction of blues and country for half a century, Williams's writing is excellent only when it isn't superlative.
		Dubious instrumental add-ons are crucial to this strategy--Gurf Morlix's acoustic slide guitar on "Jackson," Bittan's wisps of accordion on "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten," Greg Leisz's blues mandolin on "Concrete and Barbed Wire." But the illusion of casualness is most palpable in the singing.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/cdrev/lucinda-rs.php (659 words)

	Happy Woman Blues - Compare prices and read reviews on Happy Woman Blues music CD CDs album buy - price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Welcome to Happy Woman Blues album by on www.nitro-shopping.co.uk the best place to find Happy Woman Blues reviews and compare prices on the CD record.
		You can even rate the album Happy Woman Blues and write your own review to tell others how good or bad it is.
		Happy to Be Part of the Industry of Human Happiness
	www.nitro-shopping.co.uk /Music/HA4/Happy-Woman-Blues.html (111 words)

	Amazon.com: Richland Woman Blues: Music: Maria Muldaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I mean, what more perfect way to start this acoustic blues album than with the fine finger-picking of John Sebastian, who was also part of that old New York jug band scene (too bad we don't get to hear his fine blues harp here...oh, well).
		As Maria writes in her extensive and interesting liner notes, this was "a labor of love." That's obvious from start to finish the way she carefully selected tunes and visiting artists to pay tribute to the blues of the 20s and 30s.
		This CD is great both for Maria's artistry and passion and because it makes the blues live much as it must have been sung by Memphis Minnie in her day.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005AMNH?v=glance (1481 words)

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		E Goin' down south with the New York City blues, Gotta hit the road before I blow a fuse, A7 E E7 E E7 E E7 E I might buy me a Cadillac or a Chevrolet.
		E Goin' down the road with a heave heart, Tryin' to find lightness in the dark, A7 E E7 E E7 E E7 E Tryin' to live my life, tryin' to get satisfied.
		SOLO E Tryin' hard to be a happy woman.
	www.roughstock.com /cowpie/cowpie-songs/w/williams_lucinda/happy_woman_blues.crd (313 words)

	Happy woman's blues / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		Happy woman's blues / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC Classifieds
		The singer/songwriter is happy, lively and earnestly optimistic – in short, pretty damn charming.
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	www.mountainx.com /ae/2004/0303young.php (964 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 847
		After that the songs are fine, but it's down to a big not enormous, handsome not beautiful voice that's every bit as strong as the will of this singer-by-nature and writer-by-nurture.
		So at home in blues and country that she won't abide a rock and roll pigeonhole, she fought seven years to do an album her way.
		She can make a winner out of any song that spurns the clichés she's too avid and sensible to resort to, and why any record man would want to order her around I can only guess.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=847&name=Lucinda+Williams (634 words)

	calendarlive.com: SONGWRITERS SERIES - Four essential albums
		After devoting her debut album to covers, Williams began showcasing her material in "Happy Woman Blues" in 1980, but her talent really took hold on these later albums.
		After devoting her debut album to songs by Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and others, Williams began showcasing her material in "Happy Woman Blues" in 1980, but her talent really took hold on these later albums.
		Williams also trades in some of her earlier country, blues and folk strains for a touch of pop eloquence.
	www.calendarlive.com /cl-ca-hilburnalbums23may23,0,4386213.htmlstory (240 words)

	Music: Happy Woman Blues (Nashville Scene . 01-11-99)
		Relying on more pop- and rock-oriented arrangements, Rigby used her second album to write about the experiences of a newly divorced mother quickly approaching her 40s.
		The best songs pointedly yet humorously explore the challenges faced by a newly single woman: In "All I Want," she demands that a lover display some kindness and at least a minimal amount of interest in her thoughts.
		"As Is" humorously addresses the thrift-store, bargain-bin existence of a woman on a limited income, while "Invisible" wickedly yet poignantly talks about how men perceive Rigby differently now that she's older.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-11-99/nash_music-records.html (1049 words)

	Lucinda Williams : Happy Woman Blues - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lucinda Williams : Happy Woman Blues - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Williams' first collection of original material -- recorded with a full band -- is stunning for its mixture of blues, folk, and country traditions with her captivating, complex, and visceral approach to writing and singing.
		Beth Nielsen Chapman - Hearing It First; Taj Mahal - The Blues;
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,186346,00.html (137 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Perfect Ingredients (April 25 - May 1, 2002)
		Lucinda Williams' songs of passion, poetry and emotion are guaranteed to reserve her a place in music history.
		We adore Lucinda's early blues and folk-revival albums, such as Ramblin' On My Mind and Happy Woman Blues, which were recorded for Smithsonian/Folkways Records (a record label actually owned by the U.S. government) ever so long ago in the late 1970s.
		We caught up with her in 1999, when she took the stage with a top-notch group of the best musicians in the industry, including longtime guitar slinger Gurf Morlix, at the House of Blues in Hollywood, hot on the heels of the release of the fabulous Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-04-25/mus.html (942 words)

	Ramble Tamble
		7 "Honky Tonk Blues" by Hank Williams from Alone With His Guitar 2000 Mercury.
		Happy Birthday Pete Seeger born May 3, 1919.
		14 "Mean Woman Blues" by The Puhdys from Rock And Roll Music.
	www.wjffradio.org /programs/ramble (2253 words)

	HAPPY WOMAN BLUES LYRICS - Lucinda Williams
		Goin' down south with the new york city blues,
		And love is the one thing that's sure to cure my blues.
		Goin' down the road with a heave heart,
	www.beelyrics.com /l/lucinda-williams/happy-woman-blues.html (160 words)

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