Lucinda Williams is the grande dame of modern Southern rock and roll. Over a 30-year career, she’s followed her muse anywhere she damned well pleased, even if it took her seven years to complete a record, as was the case with her masterpiece, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” She pulled the title for this expansive two-disc set from the writing of her father, former U.S. Poet Laureate Miller Williams, and that’s telling, because really, that has always been the destination of Lucinda’s deeply searching songwriting. She’s always been trying to dig down to where the spirit meets the bone. One could pick nits, we suppose, about a record that spreads 20 songs over a whopping 104 minutes. But it’s so appealing to listen to one of our best and brightest just follow her spirit. “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone” is Lucinda Williams’ best record in more than a decade.
The Fat Angel Sings 