"She is living with the after-effects of a stroke, stepping on and off stage with care, yet once she's behind the mic she radiates resolve. If anything, the voice sounds newly burnished; the phrasing more deliberate, the vibrato catching the light. She opens with the title track from her just-released 16th album, World's Gone Wrong, and it lands as protest carried on groove: harmonies locked, slide guitar set like a slow warning."
"The best moments come when the writing trusts small detail. Right in Time turns the everyday into charged intimacy kettle boiling, jewellery coming off before she smiles: I guess some of my songs are a little suggestive. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road burrows into memory via smell and radio, its simplicity doing the damage. Later, You Can't Rule Me is a peak, delta boogie pushed into double-time."
Lucinda Williams performed a sold-out show at Belfast's Limelight two days after turning 73, playing material from her new album World's Gone Wrong alongside older classics. She is living with the after-effects of a stroke and moved cautiously onstage but projected renewed vocal focus, deliberate phrasing and catching vibrato. The set balanced protest songs about economic strain, racial injustice and power with intimate, detailed vignettes like Right in Time and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Marc Ford's bluesy slide guitar and Brady Blade's shimmering cymbals provided patient support while the band delivered both quiet nuance and high-energy boogie.
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