Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, May 2003
IT STARTS WITH A shivery vibrato guitar, straight off one of those '60s New York soul ballads – Betty Harris' 'Cry To Me', perhaps, or Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters' 'I'll Take Good Care of You'.
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