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World Without Tears by Lucinda Williams
World Without Tears is an album by Lucinda Williams, released in 2003. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 14 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Righteously”, on 11 lists with a best position of #189.
World Without Tears, Lucinda Williams's seventh studio album, came out on April 8, 2003, and it's a raw, bruised follow-up to the hushed intimacy of Essence. Her drawl gets rougher here, and the guitars bite harder, blues and rock grinding against her country roots.
"Righteously" struts with a sly, simmering groove and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, while the album itself was nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Fruits of My Labor" and "Minneapolis" have surfaced on the countdowns too. Critics raved, and it sold, too: 415,000 copies in the US by 2008.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from World Without Tears on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Righteously | 11 | #189 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 2 | Fruits of My Labor | 2 | #188 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Minneapolis | 1 | #1490 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.