Album · Lucinda Williams
Good Souls Better Angels by Lucinda Williams
Good Souls Better Angels is an album by Lucinda Williams, released in 2020. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “You Can't Rule Me”, on 4 lists with a best position of #17.
Good Souls Better Angels, Lucinda Williams' 14th studio album, landed on April 24, 2020, through Highway 20 Records and Thirty Tigers, and it finds one of Americana's toughest songwriters in no mood to make nice. Decades on from the breakthrough of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, she is still dragging her songs through the dirt: heartland rock with mud on its boots, guitars that growl rather than shimmer, and that cracked, unhurried voice sounding like it has been up all night arguing with the news.
She made the politics plain before the record was even out. "Man Without a Soul", released ahead of it after the album was announced in February 2020, took dead aim at Donald Trump and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots Song, and the album itself drew wide critical praise and a nod for Best Americana Album. Rock radio went for "You Can't Rule Me", which wears its defiance right there in the title.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Good Souls Better Angels on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Can't Rule Me | 4 | #17 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.