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Essence [Import] [from US]

~ Lucinda Williams (アーティスト)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Product Details

  • CD (2001/6/5)
  • Original Release Date: 2001/6/5
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import, from US
  • Label: Lost Highway
  • ASIN: B00005B8GS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: #17,400 in 音楽 (See Bestsellers in 音楽)

    Popular in these categories:

    #31 in  音楽 > ワールド > 地域別 > 北アメリカ
    #55 in  音楽 > ロック > フォーク・ソフトロック・AOR > フォーク
    #69 in  音楽 > ブルース・カントリー > カントリー

1. Lonely Girls
2. Steal Your Love
3. I Envy The Wind
4. Blue
5. Out Of Touch
6. Are You Down?
7. Essence
8. Reason To Cry
9. Get Right With God
10. Bus To Baton Rouge
11. Broken Butterflies

Product Description

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Few artists in recent memory have been able to wring more from less than Lucinda Williams. The hauntingly beautiful, wistful, and often breathtaking Essence is another case in point of how far raw emotion and honesty can carry an artist. 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. Throughout, her voice is incredibly naked, vulnerable, and wrought with feeling. "Blue" and "Broken Butterflies" are gorgeous anti-lullabies whose simple melodies belie their poignant ruminations. The title track is a sultry and susceptible sex-as-drug come-on while "Reason to Cry" has all the hallmarks of a classic country lament. The only departure from the subdued mood is "Get Right with God," a rousing gospel tune that practically begs for salvation through punishment and is the rare acknowledgement of a world beyond Williams's own fears and desires. More meditative than the personal narratives found on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence is ultimately more powerful. Williams wallows in sorrow and weakness, and the result is moving and disarming. --Marc Greilsamer


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Few artists in recent memory have been able to wring more from less than Lucinda Williams. The hauntingly beautiful, wistful and often breathtaking Essence is another case in point of how far raw emotion and honesty can carry an artist. 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. Throughout, her voice is incredibly naked, vulnerable and wrought with feeling. "Blue" and "Broken Butterflies" are gorgeous anti-lullabies whose simple melodies belie their poignant ruminations. The title track is a sultry and susceptible sex-as-drug come-on while "Reason to Cry" has all the hallmarks of a classic country lament. The only departure from the subdued mood is "Get Right With God", a rousing gospel tune that practically begs for salvation through punishment and is the rare acknowledgement of a world beyond Williams's own fears and desires. More meditative than the personal narratives found on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence is ultimately more powerful. Williams wallows in sorrow and weakness, and the result is moving and disarming. --Marc Greilsamer

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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ピュアアルバム, 2001/9/25
By gga01106 (兵庫県加古川市) - See all my reviews
ジャンル的には女性カントリーシンガーという位置付けですが,フォーク・カントリー・ロック・ブルーズの要素が全て詰まった好アルバム。
それにしても,何と説得力のある歌声なんでしょう。音を延ばした時のわずかな声の震えまでが,聴き手を捕らえてしまいます。

共同プロデューサーに名前を連ねている,チャーリー(男前)セクストンの,寄り添うような仕事ぶりには感心しました。4,5曲目がベストテイク。歌詞もかなりグッときます。

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 夏の終わり, 2005/3/5
By A Customer
これより前作の評判がいいようですが、むしろこちらのほうが素晴らしいかなと。
ことアルバムの歌詞の良さは、かのボブ・ディランも褒めています。
簡潔ですが深いです。
曲も素敵です。

私はこのアルバムを聞くと夏の終わりを思い出します。
8月末の夕暮れに吹く、夏の終わりを突然告げるあの風を受けた
のような切ない感じです。

マスタリングは大御所バーニー・グランドマン。
ギターが素晴らしい音で鳴ってます。

名盤・名録音盤。

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars グラミーの後, 2006/5/4
By matsuda76 - See all my reviews
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紆余曲折ながらもリリースされた『Car Wheels on a Gravel Road』はルーツロックの傑作であったし、グラミーも受賞。
本作では守りに入らず新たな魅力を開花させましょう、といった意図が見え隠れ、いかにもチャリ坊プロデユースといった音処理であり、シンガーソングライターらしさを際だたせたもの静かで落ち着いた内容。
前作のような地に足ついたアーシーなロックは減退している訳で、そんな、激渋、激上手のロックを期待していた自分としては期待外れの一枚。
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