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Lucinda Williams: West

Alfred Soto, Stylus, 21 February 2007

I DIRECT ANY YOUNG WOMAN looking for a role model to Lucinda Williams's eponymous 1988 breakthrough. Williams was like Chrissie Hynde's younger sister, not privy to the ambitions that drove Hynde from Akron to London to write dull rockcrit, form a band, acquire an incomprehensible accent, and record the greatest debut album anyone will ever make.

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