Little Honey

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Little Honey
Little Honey.jpg
Studio album by
Lucinda Williams
ReleasedOctober 14, 2008 (2008-10-14)
Genre Americana, folk rock, alternative country, heartland rock
Length64:44
Label Lost Highway
Producer Eric Leljestrand, Tom Overby [1]
Lucinda Williams chronology
West
(2007)		Little Honey
(2008)		 Blessed
(2011)

Little Honey is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on October 14, 2008, by Lost Highway Records. The album debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, selling 35,000 copies that week, [2] thereby becoming her first Top 10 album.

Contents

A critical and commercial success, the album earned Williams a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010, the first year to feature this category. [3]

Music and lyrics

The album includes guest appearances by Elvis Costello, Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet and Charlie Louvin. [1] "Circles and X's" was written in 1985, around the same time was "If Wishes Were Horses," while "Well Well Well" dates from 1991. [4] "Real Love" was released to radio and digital outlets as the first single. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg 2008
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg 2007
Entertainment Weekly B− 2008
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg 2008
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg 2008
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg 2008
The Boston Globe unfavorable 2008
The New York Times 2008
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg 2008
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg 2008

Little Honey was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 72, based on 23 reviews. [5] Spin called it "her finest record since Car Wheels on a Gravel Road ," stating she "goes back to the roots-rock well and takes a long, satisfying swig". [6] Rolling Stone rated the 4 out of 5 stars, singling out the track "If Wishes Were Horses" as "sublime". [7] AllMusic called the album "the most polished and studied record she's ever made", stating "its sound is utterly contemporary, though its forms are rooted in electric '70s rock as well as her fallbacks on blues and old-school Americana", but concluded that there are "songs that pack some punch, but no jaw-dropping wallops". [8]

Awards

Award nominations for Little Honey
YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2009 Grammy Awards Best Americana Album Little HoneyNominated [3]

Track listing

All songs by Lucinda Williams, except where indicated. [9]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Real Love" 3:45
2."Circles and X's" 3:40
3."Tears of Joy" 4:27
4."Little Rock Star" 5:42
5."Honey Bee" 3:05
6."Well Well Well" 4:29
7."If Wishes Were Horses" 5:40
8."Jailhouse Tears" 5:28
9."Knowing" 6:00
10."Heaven Blues" 5:23
11."Rarity" 8:43
12."Plan to Marry" 3:26
13."It's a Long Way to the Top"
4:56
Total length:64:44

Bonus tracks

"Lu in '08" EP

Released on October 28, 2008, as a Digital-Only EP featuring 4 live tracks (3 covers and one original):

  1. "Masters of War" (Originally performed by Bob Dylan)
  2. "For What It's Worth" (Originally performed by Buffalo Springfield)
  3. "Marching the Hate Machines Into the Sun" (Originally performed by Thievery Corporation feat. Wayne Coyne)
  4. "Bone of Contention" (Lucinda Williams original) A

Notes

Personnel

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart performance for Little Honey
Chart (2008)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [10] [11] 68
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [12] 82
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [13] 57
Irish Albums (IRMA) [14] 66
Italian Albums (FIMI) [15] 77
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [16] 25
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [17] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [18] 25
UK Albums (OCC) [19] 51
US Billboard 200 [20] 9
US Rock Albums ( Billboard ) [21] 5

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