Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone

Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released in September 2014 via Highway 20 Records.

Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is the first album to be released on Williams’ own record label Highway 20 Records, which gives her complete creative control over her recorded output going forward.

The results of taking creative control show as this epic 20 track album was released to critical acclaim and went on to win the Americana Music Award for Album of the Year.

The song "Compassion" (from which the album title is derived), is based on a poem written by her father, Miller Williams.

The album was produced by Lucinda Williams with Tom Overby and Greg Leisz, and include appearances by Tony Joe White on guitar on two tracks and Jakob Dylan on harmony vocals on the song “It’s Gonna Rain”.

Elvis Costello’s backing band The Imposters play on a few tracks together with Stuart Mathis of The Wallflowers. Bill Frisell contributes guitar and Ian McLagan contributes keyboards on some songs.

All songs on the album were written by Lucinda Williams with “Magnolia” the only cover song, written by JJ Cale.

The album debuted at #13 on the US Billboard 200 Albums chart, and also reached #23 in the UK and #32 in Australia.

Check out the following tracks:  “West Memphis”; “Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)”; “Foolishness”; and “Big Mess”.

This triple album 3LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a deluxe tri-fold sleeve with printed inner sleeves and digital download code, pressed in the US.