release date: Jun. 30, 1998
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,77]
Track highlights: 1. "Right in Time" - 2. "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" - 3. "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" (4 / 5) - 4. "Drunken Angel" - 5. "Concrete and Barbed Wire" - 8. "I Lost It"
Although country isn't really my style, I find this more than quite good. It's not classic country nor is it Johnny-Cash-kind-of-country but it's an updated and electrified version centered around country with the addition of blues, folk rock and singer / songwriter elements making it a more than just interesting cocktail. The themes are typical to the root genre but the lyrics seem mature and contemporary, and Lucinda has a really nice vocal.
The album was met by critical acclaim, and was nominated a number of prizes and has been enlisted in various best of lists including "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Rolling Stone, and it's enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone 5 / 5, Q Magazine 4 / 5 stars ]
