I was introduced to Lucinda Williams some months ago via a Robert Plant BBC Playlist.

The track I heard was 'Sweet Old World' a 2017 version of her previous 1992 release, part of a full-length reconsideration of her earlier work, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams re-recording her 1992 album 'This Sweet Old World'.

Why do this ? Well for starters her voice has changed considerably, it's got more gravely, almost slurring her vowels and a big change from the smooth polish of the original versions. It now has a less clean feel and many tracks are longer. 

Her husband and manager Tom Overby suggested that she re-visit the album. She re-recorded the album in 10 days with her touring and studio band: guitarist Stuart Mathis, bassist David Sutton and drummer Butch Norton and longtime friend and collaborator, legendary steel-guitar player Greg Leisz. 

Opening the record is a track called “Six Blocks Away” about a painful longing for something that, as Tom Petty once put it, is “so close and still so far out of reach.”

“That one really, I was like, ‘Wow, this is a surprise' ” says Williams of the ambling rocker, reinvigorated with a chiming, jangly Rickenbacker guitar line that evokes everyone from Petty to the Byrds to R.E.M. 

I love it ! 'Six Blocks Away' -

Check out other tracks if you wish: 'Pineola', 'Prove My Love', 'Hot Blood' & 'Sweet Old World'. From rockers to ballads - here's the link you'll need.