Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Singer-Songwriter · 2014 · 20 tracks · 1h 43m

Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Lucinda Williams

A sprawling double album of swampy grooves and Southern grit. Deeply textured guitars meet a world-weary drawl in this masterclass of Americana storytelling.

September 26, 2014 · Birdnest Records

A heavy, empathetic exploration of human resilience wrapped in swampy Southern grooves.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks · 1h 43m

01

Compassion

2:57

01

Something Wicked This Way Comes

5:45

02

Protection

4:47

02

Big Mess

5:32

03

Burning Bridges

4:49

03

When I Look at the World

4:56

04

East Side of Town

4:56

04

Walk On

4:11

05

Temporary Nature (of Any Precious Thing)

5:05

05

West Memphis

5:44

06

Everything but the Truth

5:11

06

Cold Day in Hell

5:16

07

This Old Heartache

5:03

07

Foolishness

5:57

08

Wrong Number

5:01

08

Stowaway in Your Heart

3:27

09

Stand Right by Each Other

3:59

09

One More Day

6:21

10

It’s Gonna Rain

4:18

10

Magnolia

9:51

Moments Worth Listening For

The swampy, hypnotic guitar interlocking with the steady thrum of the bass on 'West Memphis'

The weight of the silence between the sparse acoustic strums on the opening track 'Compassion'

The nearly ten-minute slow-burn sprawl of the JJ Cale cover 'Magnolia' that closes the record

Reviews

AllMusic

Where This Album Departs

How does Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone sound next to the rest of Lucinda Williams's catalogue?

Dusk+1.5σ

Dusk saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

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