(Edited to add tracklisting details provided by Zane)

01 Real Love
02 Circles & X’s
03 Tears Of Joy
04 Little Rock Star [feat. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs]
05 Honey Bee
06 Well Well Well [feat. Charlie Louvin & Jim Lauderdale]
07 If Wishes Were Horses
08 Jailhouse Tears [feat. Elvis Costello]
09 Knowing
10 Heaven Blues
11 Rarity
12 Plan To Marry
13 It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DXF9JU/?tag=imwan-20

This website has the tracklisting. I've heard a few of these in live versions....

http://wearsthetrousers.com/2008/08/09/ ... -and-more/

great news!

i've heard some of them live too. "rarity" and "knowing" are remarkable songs.

can't wait, jackson and lucinda within 3 weeks of each other.

renny

p.s. gotta keep an eye out for special versions, last album" west" came with a couple of different extras, in a couple of different places.

She did It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N’ Roll) at the end of her Jones Beach NY set last month.

From musicremedy.com:

http://www.musicremedy.com/l/Lucinda_Williams/album/Little_Honey-5704.html

Lucinda Williams - Little Honey

Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit’s shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she’s never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey. “I’m in a different phase of my life, so there are more happy moments on this album,” the singer-songwriter says of her ninth studio set. “ ‘Darkly introspective,’ is one phrase people have used to describe a lot of my songs. There are moody songs, but I’m looking outside myself a little bit more. These aren’t ‘boy meets girl, boy leaves girl, girl gets bummed out’ songs -- there’s a lot more than that going on.”
Williams wastes no time signaling that mood change, leading into Little Honey's opener, “Real Love” with a false start riff that's the six-string equivalent of a friendly wink – then sidling into the tune's hard-rocking vibe with a sensual slink that underscores the passion of finding exactly what that title indicates. The bluesy physicality of that tune is echoed in several of Little Honey's tracks, from the charmingly chugging “Honeybee” to the gorgeous melodies of “If Wishes Were Horses”.

“I’m stepping out and writing about things other than unrequited love. But because that’s not part of my experience anymore,” she explains, “doesn’t mean I’m going to stop being a songwriter. There are plenty of other important things to write about -- the state of the world, for one thing -- I don’t buy into the myth that because you get to a certain level of contentment, you have to throw in the towel.”

While Little Honey certainly has plenty to move the hips, Williams doesn't neglect her uncanny ability to do the same to the heart. The sparse delta delivery she affords “Heaven Blues” -- a keening consideration of what might await on the other side – hits home thanks to its arresting blend of hope and vexation, while the epic “Rarity” rides soft waves of brass (instrumentation never before heard on one of her discs).

“The one thing the songs have in common is directness,” she says. “The beauty of country and blues is their simplicity, it’s about getting things across in a really direct way. I’ve spent a while stretching out and going in different directions, which is my nature. But I feel that I can always embrace that original simplicity again -- that’s why I went back to record ‘Circles and Xs,’ which I actually wrote back in 1985.”

Over the course of a recording career that's now in its fourth decade, the Louisiana-born singer has navigated terrain as varied as the dust-bowl starkness of her 1978 debut Ramblin’ (recorded on the fly with a mere 250 dollar budget behind her) and the stately elegance of last year's West (which Vanity Fair called “the record of a lifetime”). Between those signposts, Lucinda Williams established a reputation as one of rock's most uncompromising and consistently fascinating writers and performers, earning kudos from artists as diverse as Mary-Chapin Carpenter (who helped win Williams a Grammy with her recording of “Passionate Kisses”) and Elvis Costello (who joins her for a duet on the Little Honey mini-drama “Jailhouse Tears”).

Williams learned the importance of professional integrity around the same time most kids are learning their ABCs, thanks in a large part to her award-winning poet father Miller Williams -- who invested her with a “culturally rich, but economically poor” upbringing where artistic expression was of primary importance. Later, she’d hone her vision playing hardscrabble clubs around her adopted home state of Texas, absorbing the influence of sources as varied as Bob Dylan and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

“I sometimes say I just started out singing folk songs acoustically by default,” she recalls. “Even when I was playing open mic nights by myself, I’d be sitting up on stage with my Martin guitar doing ‘Angel’ by Jimi Hendrix or ‘Politician’ by Cream alongside Robert Johnson and Memphis Minnie songs. It never occurred to me to pick just one style.”

She’s never settled for any sort of pigeonholing, entering the ‘90s with the slow-burning Sweet Old World -- a disc that, as much as any release, helped place the Americana movement at the forefront of listeners’ minds -- and cementing her own spot in the cultural lexicon with 1998’s rough-hewn masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

The latter disc earned Williams her first Grammy as a performer, but rather than try to capture the same lightning in a bottle a second time, she stretched her boundaries on 2001’s Essence, an album rife with both cerebral interludes and soul-stirring stomps. In recent times, Williams has broadened her palette even further through frequent collaborations with kindred spirits -- acts as varied as The North Mississippi All-Stars and Flogging Molly -- who share her uncommon sense of non-revivalist traditionalism.

Little Honey continues that ongoing forward quest, mixing country, R & B and blues-rock elements with adventurous aplomb. The disc gets an added octane boost from the powerful chemistry between the musicians, primarily drawn from Williams’ latest road band (now collectively known as Buick 6) -- includes bassist David Sutton, Eels veterans Butch Norton and Chet Lyster as well as longtime collaborator Doug Pettibone.

Williams augments that core unit with a passel of like-minded folks spanning a huge chunk of the musical spectrum, from octogenarian singing legend Charlie Louvin to power-pop vets Susannah Hoffs and Matthew Sweet, the latter of whom helped arrange the Spector-tinged “Little Rock Star” -- applying studio skills that prompted Williams to dub him “this generation’s Brian Wilson.”

“I feel that this is the most eclectic record I’ve ever done, and I’ve always been known for being eclectic,” she says. “ For this album, I was comfortable just letting the songs flow, and not worried about being so serious and heavy and having to top myself -- and I think that shows.”

She needn’t have worried for a minute because, with Little Honey, Lucinda Williams has indeed topped herself again.

I posted a comment on the Lucinda forum regarding two of the new songs having the same titles as John Lennon songs - "Real Love" and "Well Well Well". Two of us thought of a few of John's songs that would be good for her to cover. We both thought of "Don't Let Me Down". It turns out that she duets with Susan Marshall on that song on Susan's upcoming album. Someone with inside info piped in and told us. I also suggested "Dear Prudence".

can't wait.

amazon.com is offering a digital download called "bone of contention" if you pre-order "little honey" by october 14.

this has caused a little quandry for me.

the album comes out october 14, but you can't download the song until october 28.

now, i know someone here will know this answer:

is there going to be different versions of "little honey" available as there were with "west"?

is "bone of contention" going to be on a bonus disc from best buy ("west" had one bonus version attached at best buy, while another bonus version was offered form either borders or barnes &noble i forget which one).

any help on this will be greatly appreciated, and we still have three weeks to find out1

renny

Renny,

Some people on the Lucinda forum are asking the same thing. So far there is no answer. Someone with inside info frequently answers questions on that board. I'm hoping he will know soon.

david,

could you keep us informed here please?

thanks,

renny

According to a post on the Lucinda site, there will probably be 6 bonus tracks offered by two different retailers. One retailer will have 5 of the tracks. There is also a UK single coming out with "Real Love" and a song not on the album track list - "I Live My Life". He does not specify the retailers. I wonder if "I Live My Life" might be on one of the bonus discs.

Here is the post and a link:

Some misc. upcoming things
by: Inside Job
"Because of the response to the late release of the Real Love single in the UK, I Live My Life has been added as a bonus track to the UK single release which should be any day now.

There will again be bonus tracks from the same Radio Recorder sessions that provided the extra tracks that came in the different versions of West. I believe only two separate retailers will have extra tracks. I know the question was asked somewhere else in this forum, but the reason it is done that way is not because of trying to make fans by multiple copies, it is done that way because each retailer wants their own exclusive bonus tracks different from what the competition is getting. In all I believe there will be a total of 6 extra tracks and one retailer will have 5 of them."

http://www.lucindawilliams.com/lucinda/php/forum.php

The post is in the Lucinda in general forum in the thread Some misc. upcoming things in case anyone wants to check any followups. I'm unable to link directly to the post.

david,

thanks once again.

i had a feeling this was going to happen.

i hope it is true that one retailer will have 5 of the 6.

time will tell,

renny

You're welcome.

Lucinda is on David Letterman tonight - 10/2.

Saw the Letterman show last night. I love her band. The song she sang "Real Love" is alright, kinda repetitive, sounds like something Ronstadt would have sung at one time (is it a cover?).

Seeing Lucinda in HD makes one realize she is a real broad. Could she tell some tales or what?

Hello:

I got an advance on it last week.

I love this CD.

My favorite tracks on it our Jailhouse Tears (duet with Costello), Real Love (leadoff track)
and Honey Bee (not the Tom Petty song).

The cover of AC/Dc's Long Way to The Top is interesting.

The Rarity cut that was mentioned eafrlier in this thread is a great track as well.

Rebel007

Sweet, I finally got through that set of live discs from her web site and now a new album.

Life is good!!!!!

lucinda is good...damn good !

Best Buy states on their web site that they are offering 5 exclusive download tracks. I'm disappointed they are download only.

From Best Buy:
Best Buy Exclusive
While supplies last, receive 5 digital download demo recordings:
Jailhouse Tears 2
Rarity
Circles & X's
Knowing
If Wishes Were Horses

Demo download instructions will arrive in the package with the CD.

no "bone of contention" how about that

Inside Job just posted on the Lucinda site that iTunes will have one bonus track, a demo of "Real Love". He also says that the Best Buy downloads will be available whether the cd is purchased online or instore. The downloads will be at least 256 kbps and possibly 320 according to the post.

If I'm interpreting everything correctly, there are 8 tracks not on the CD that will be available from different sources. I'm including the UK single b-side.

UK single b-side:
I Live My Life

Amazon (can link from http://www.lucindawilliams.com):
Bone of Contention

iTunes:
Real Love demo

Best Buy (5 demos)
Jailhouse Tears 2
Rarity
Circles & X's
Knowing
If Wishes Were Horses

david,

do you know if amazon is going to carry the 4-song EP (the one with "for what its worth) ?

i ask because nothing is posted at amazon as yet and i know the release date is 10/28.

thanks again for the info,

renny

Renny,

I don't know where the EP is offered. I posted a question on the Lucinda forum. I'll let you know.