Song · Lucinda Williams
“Real Love” by Lucinda Williams
From the album Little Honey (2008)
“Real Love” by Lucinda Williams appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2008 and 2013. It was first released in 2008 on the album Little Honey. Its best result is #64 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #136 indie & aaa song of 2008.
Lucinda Williams led with "Real Love" when she rolled out Little Honey, her ninth album, in 2008, and she wrote it herself. By all accounts it's a roots-rock kicker: Spin heard a rowdy bar-band rave-up, and AllMusic singled out Doug Pettibone's jangling, charging guitars, Rob Burger's Wurlitzer, a backing chorus of the Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet, and that Louisiana voice of hers riding on top.
Over the boogie-rock riffs, as Rolling Stone noted, she gives her heart away by turns to a guy, a girl and a six-string. LA Weekly ranked it third among her 11 best songs, hearing a return to her old jangle-pop and country days, and it also found its way into the film The Lucky Ones, which opened in the US that September.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 64 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2008 | 100 |
| 2008 | 74 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2008 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 670 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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