"I had my shot, but I was young. I'll never know what I done wrong." - Kenn Kweder, "Words and Dreams"
"I first saw him in 1977, he's playing the Chestnut Hall.
So, Steven Spielberg comes out with A.I., his would-be collaboration with the
late Stanley Kubrick and his first movie in three years, and all anyone wants to
know is, "Is it good?" Well, "good" isn't the word, but neither is "bad."
First things first, I'm not a big Spielberg fan.
In 1998, Lucinda Williams emerged from relative obscurity to lavish critical
and healthy commercial acclaim with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, for which
she also won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
With those credentials and only a three-year gap between albums (the last one
was five) behind her, expectations were running high for Essence, Williams'
follow-up to the sublime Car Wheels.
And, Williams answers with a great album... that's not as good.