The 20-track Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone is an immense return to form for Lucinda Williams, her best since her 1998 classic, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road. She drops the murky, plodding atmospheres and improves massively upon the songwriting of much of her other post-Car Wheels work. Disc 1 is definitely the better of the two, and one can't shake the feeling that she could have made a much better album - hell, maybe even another classic - by cutting this in half or doing two albums, but what we are left with is still an excellent album from one of Americana's greats.
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