“Sweet Old World” by Lucinda Williams

"Sweet Old World" is the title song of Lucinda Williams' fourth album, which Chameleon Records released in August 1992, and she wrote it alone, words and music. She sings lead and plays acoustic guitar, and she produced the record with Dusty Wakeman and Gurf Morlix, the same three who produced her self-titled 1988 album. Wakeman recorded and mixed this one.

Morlix is a one-man string section here: acoustic, electric, lap steel, pedal steel and resonator guitars, mandolin, plus backing vocals. Duane Jarvis adds electric guitar, John Ciambotti plays upright and electric bass and Donald Lindley handles drums and percussion. Emmylou Harris later covered the song on Wrecking Ball in 1995, and Williams cut it again for This Sweet Old World, her 2017 re-recording of the whole album.

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