℗ 2020 Highway 20 Records marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
Released | April 24, 2020 |
Duration | 59m 40s |
Record Label | Highway 20 Records |
Catalogue No. | LWM001 |
Genre | Rock (Americana) |
Good Souls Better Angels
Lucinda Williams
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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You Can't Rule Me
Lucinda Williams |
4:01 | |||
1.2
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Bad News Blues
Lucinda Williams |
4:36 | |||
1.3
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Man Without a Soul
Lucinda Williams |
5:31 | |||
1.4
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Big Black Train
Lucinda Williams |
5:27 | |||
1.5
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Wakin' Up EXPLICIT
Lucinda Williams |
4:44 | |||
1.6
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Lucinda Williams |
5:37 | |||
1.7
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Shadows & Doubts
Lucinda Williams |
6:00 | |||
1.8
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When the Way Gets Dark
Lucinda Williams |
3:26 | |||
1.9
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Bone of Contention
Lucinda Williams |
4:04 | |||
1.10
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Down Past the Bottom
Lucinda Williams |
3:21 | |||
1.11
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Big Rotator
Lucinda Williams |
5:19 | |||
1.12
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Good Souls
Lucinda Williams |
7:34 |
Grammy Award Nomination, 2020 – Best Americana Album
"On Good Souls Better Angels, Williams wades through the bad news to deliver her most pointed and topical album to date. She is particularly unsparing in singing about Donald Trump, who she calls 'the worst president we've ever had in the history of the United States.'"
- NPR
"In life as in song, Williams, 67, is an expert storyteller: It’s not hard to imagine the mess of our current reality cast as a blues-rock rave-up on her 14th album, Good Souls Better Angels."
- LA Times
Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams unabashedly takes on some of the human, social and political issues of our day with her boldest and most direct album to date, Good Souls Better Angels. During the course of her celebrated four-decade, pioneering career Williams has never rested on her laurels as she continues to push herself as a songwriter. On Good Souls Better Angels, she has much she needs to get out.
On Good Souls Better Angels, Williams changes course from her previous albums and chooses to forgo the personal and narrative-based songcraft that has become synonymous with her name and instead speaks to some of the injustices permeating our society.
Williams recorded Good Souls Better Angels backed by her remarkable, long time band, featuring Butch Norton (drums), Stuart Mathis (guitar) and David Sutton (bass). The rock-solid unit propels the music with both fire and finesse, particularly on the raw blues number "You Can't Rule Me", which kicks off the album with equal parts attitude and swing.
Good Souls Better Angels marks the first time Williams' husband/manager Tom Overby is credited as a co-writer on many of the new songs. The album was co-produced by Williams, Overby and Ray Kennedy, who last worked with Williams on her 1998 landmark album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Highway 20 Records Studio Masters
Tracks 1-12 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-12 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.05 -0.10 to 0.00 | -10.94 -13.32 to -9.22 | -8.73 -11.30 to -6.80 | 6 5 to 9 | |
1 | You Can't Rule Me | 0.00 | -10.35 | -8.0 | 6 |
2 | Bad News Blues | 0.00 | -10.50 | -8.5 | 6 |
3 | Man Without a Soul | 0.00 | -9.83 | -7.6 | 5 |
4 | Big Black Train | 0.00 | -12.32 | -10.2 | 7 |
5 | Wakin' Up | 0.00 | -9.52 | -7.9 | 6 |
6 | Pray the Devil Back to Hell | 0.00 | -10.52 | -8.0 | 6 |
7 | Shadows & Doubts | 0.00 | -11.62 | -9.6 | 7 |
8 | When the Way Gets Dark | -0.10 | -13.32 | -11.3 | 9 |
9 | Bone of Contention | 0.00 | -10.10 | -7.3 | 5 |
10 | Down Past the Bottom | 0.00 | -9.22 | -6.8 | 5 |
11 | Big Rotator | 0.00 | -10.86 | -8.6 | 7 |
12 | Good Souls | 0.00 | -13.11 | -11.0 | 8 |