Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 (2-CD)

"Williams revisits childhood haunts and loves lost, mining both her personal history and the sum total of her musical influences -- blues, gospel, alt-country -- to achieve what is easily one of the best albums of her career."
"Williams can write boozy rockers and barn-burning stompers, but she can write the hell out of songs about people kicking and fighting like mad to escape the circumstances they've found themselves in, and that's what GHOSTS is all about..."
Paste (magazine) - "From the title, evoking the Southern highway from Florida to Louisiana Williams has traveled since she was a small girl, these songs are journeys literal and metaphorical....GHOSTS hits the gut, the soul and the grey matter."