Writing the follow-up album to a critical or commercial blockbuster must be one of the most daunting quests in music. No matter how sharp the new album is, it will be compared to its predecessor in ...
Nobody's cozier with woe than Lucinda Williams. On her new CD, "Essence," the skies are black and everybody's blue, except those folks who've knocked themselves off. It's the feel-bad event of the ...