Rock N Roll Heart

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  Mark Harrison

  • Genre: Rock, Americana.

  • Influenced by: Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, (lyrically) Allen Ginsberg, Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey.

  • Similar artists: Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Patti Griffin, John Prine, Nanci Griffith.

  • About this album: In 2020, Lucinda Williams suffered a debilitating stroke. Williams spent months rehabilitating, even having to relearn how to walk. Williams is largely considered one of the greatest living American singer-songwriters, but the events of 2020 cast the possibility of new material from Williams into doubt. We of little faith. In April of 2023, Williams published her memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You (which made it to No. 5 on the New York Times bestsellers list). The 70-year-old Williams then followed up in June with the release of this, her 15th studio album. The banger of an opening track, Let's Get the Band Back Together, was inspired by "“that need for community after all the isolation of the pandemic [and] getting old friends together again who’d drifted apart.” It features a host of background singers, including Margo Price and Buddy Miller. Price also guests on other songs, and New York Comeback features guest vocalists Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.

  • Metacritic Score: 79 (Generally Favorable Reviews).

  • Grammy Nominations: None.

  • Song To Sample: Where the Song Will Find Me.