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Essence

by Lucinda Williams

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of 455,735

3,967
2000's

of 265,982

565
2001

of 35,059

65

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Overall Rating: 2.9625 Essence is ranked overall as 2.9625 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0047 Essence has an avg. critic score of 3.0047 out of 4 stars

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New York Magazine

By leaving her images blurry and her singing uncomplicated, Williams has found a way to capture the sound she hears in her head and obsesses over the recording process to find. ...more

All Music Guide

Between her well-documented determination to retail full control of her music and the plain-spoken willfulness of her best-known songs, Lucinda Williams is practically the working definition of a strong woman you do not want to mess with, but she ...more

Rolling Stone

After toiling in relative obscurity and then in the partial shade of cultish appreciation, singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams bowled over most of the known rock universe with 1998'sCar Wheels on a Gravel Road. Her unique strengths - elliptical ...more

Billboard

Subtlety is one thing, but at times Williams makes the Cowboy Junkies seem downright rambunctious. ...more

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Williams sounds withdrawn and mysterious, awash in feelings that may be too personal to share this time out. ...more

Rolling Stone

Essence finds Williams returning to the willful intimacy of her earliest records. Laid-back, rock-ish and small in scale, Essence never achieves grandeur but won't particularly alienate the fan for whom her wonders small and large are equally magical. ...more

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