| "Buttercup" | ||||
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| Single by Lucinda Williams | ||||
| from the album Blessed | ||||
| Released | 2011 | |||
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| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Lost Highway | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lucinda Williams | |||
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"Buttercup" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 2011 as the first single from her 10th album, Blessed (2011).
The song features Elvis Costello on guitar and Matthew Sweet on backing vocals. [1]
Country music website Holler listed "Buttercup" as No. 8 of the best Lucinda Williams songs; "Lucinda offered the much-needed reprieve of a - somewhat - playful love song. Once again, the artist has distanced herself from a deceitful lover. Her pride beams with moments of 'I told you so', but her empathic nature forces, her to consider the brokenness behind the subject's wrongdoings." [2]
AllMusic wrote "Buttercup" is "a rollicking kiss-off to a former boyfriend in which Williams simply lays out the truth as she sees it amid a strident rock & roll cadence. The guitars swell and fade while the B-3 swirls around her voice and the low-end drums hammer her vocal accents home." [1]
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA) [4] | 777 |
| US Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay [5] | 26 |
Lucinda Gayl Williams is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, Ramblin' on My Mind (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980), in a traditional country and blues style that received critical praise but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her third album, Lucinda Williams, to widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter for her 1992 album Come On Come On, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams released her fourth album, Sweet Old World, four years later in 1992. Sweet Old World was met with further critical acclaim, and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album, as well as Lucinda Williams, were "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant".
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on June 30, 1998, by Mercury Records. The album was recorded and co-produced by Williams in Nashville, Tennessee and Canoga Park, California, and features guest appearances by Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
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"Essence" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 2001 as the first single from her sixth album, Essence (2001).
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"Real Love" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 2008 as the first single from her ninth album, Little Honey (2008).
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