West by Lucinda Williams

West, Lucinda Williams' eighth studio album, landed on February 13, 2007, with Hal Willner producing, and it debuted at number 14 on the Billboard 200 with about 57,000 copies gone in the first week. By October 2008 it had sold 250,000 in the US.

It's Americana taken slow and heavy, that worn, unhurried voice stretched over long, smoky arrangements that let every line sink in. Television latched on fast: "Are You Alright?" played over the closing scenes of a House episode that April and surfaced again years later in HBO's True Detective, while "Rescue" turned up on Brothers and Sisters. "Come On", the record's rocker, drew 2 Grammy nominations in 2008, Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song, only to lose both to Bruce Springsteen's "Radio Nowhere". And the 2022 film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed rolled its end titles to "Unsuffer Me".

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