USA Today Music — The Southern singer only improves on her latest album, with simple but soulful songs. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Three albums have me especially excited this week. Two of the releases are by veteran singer-songwriters, Lucinda Williams' Blessed and Ron Sexsmith's Long Player Late Bloomer, but the release of the week is the The Rural Alberta Advantage's stellar.... more info

Twangville — ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: Blessed, by Lucinda Williams Ah, Lucinda, you lost me a bit with your last couple of releases. Not that I can hold it against you. Car Wheels and some of the earlier works set the bar so high that it would be hard to imagine bein... more info

Detroit Free Press — Scissor Sisters at Royal Oak Music Theatre Academy Awards, 8 p.m. ABC Lucinda Williams at the Ark Flogging Molly at Fillmore Detroit Girl Talk at Compuware Sports Arena Daniel Tosh at the Fox Theatre more info

Totally Fuzzy — heywhatsthatnoise??? said... New Reviews and Downloads of the following singles: Enter Shikari - Destabilise (2009) - Post-Hardcore/Emocore Miss May I - Swing (Savage Cover, 2008) - Metalcore And the following Albums: Enter Shikari - Take to The Skie... more info

Twangville — Some albums have lyrics with an emotional impact, but more often than not, the music impacts me more than the lyrics. So it is always special to find an album that does both. Then there is Lucinda Williams’ new project Blessed , which has great mu... more info

Detroit Free Press — Patience was a necessity for fans of Lucinda Williams back in the early days of the singer-songwriter's career because she tended to take her time releasing eagerly awaited albums. For the last decade, however, the gifted Americana artist has be... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — It’s a song about wonder, about loss, about heartbreak — about a moment. But Lucinda Williams can tell the story of “Copenhagen,” a song from her return-to-form new album, “Blessed,” which comes out March 1 on Lost Highway, better than... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Aquarium Drunkard interviews Lucinda Williams about her new album, Blessed (out March 1st). Henry Miller's ex-wife Hoki Tokuda talks to the Los Angeles Times about the author. The Montreal Gazette profiles the Luyas. Influenced by Laurie Anderson and... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — After more than three decades, there’s not a lot that hasn’t been said about Lucinda Williams’ music. A towering figure in the genre of alt-country and roots-rock, her albums, dating all the way back to 1979′s Ramblin’, full of her literate... more info