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Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears

Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly, 11 April 2003

"WE ARE SO out of touch," sang Lucinda Williams on 2001's Essence. It's a line that could double as a proud slogan for her label, Lost Highway – an imprint devoted to highbrow roots-rock and old-school country alien to the cyber-bimbo mall of MTV, CMT, and mass-market radio.

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