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Our look at the closing lines of the biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Little Honey, the new album from perennial rock-critic favorite Lucinda Williams: • "The closest she gets to real country, in fact, is a duet with Elvis Costello (there's that name again!) on the stunning 'Jailhouse Tears,' which is a conversation between two former lovers following what must've been a horrible relationship. (There's an irony, by the way—intended or not—that the album shares a title with a song that was recorded by both X and the Blasters and which was co-written by Dave Alvin, with whom Williams once had a fairly volatile relationship.) Country-tinged or not, though, George Jones never sang a lyric like 'Look at me, I'm clean now,' only to be followed by Tammy Wynette snarling: 'You're so full of shit.'... [read full story]
