A powerful highlight from the roots-rock icon’s excellent new LP
Yet, where that album was finely wrought and full of literary detail, her latest comes on like a cathartic blues holler, full of slow-grinding rage at devils she knows — from struggling friends to bad news exes to, on “Man Without a Soul,” the current occupant of the White House.
It’s a humid, mordant blues track that moves at a torturous pace. Williams draws out every bile-steeped word with grim, vengeful determination, so that even if the song’s sentiment doesn’t exactly count as revelatory social critique, the deep realness of her anger feels uniquely potent. “All the money in the world/Will never fill that hole,” she sings.
Over the years, Williams’ drawl has thickened, making every vowel its own sumptuously rolling river to cross and lending her songs a heavier tug of sensual hunger, which is saying something for someone whose been writingthat couples powerfully with a visceral urgency that seems striking even for her: the defiant, stomping political rocker “You Can’t Rule Me,” the scathing “Wakin’ Up,” a tumultuous song about moving past a violent relationship, or more tender moments like the lovely, empathetic...
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