Sweet Old World

Sweet Old World was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voices Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album was "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant [with] short-story details ('chess pieces,' 'dresses that zip up the side') packing a textural thrill akin to local color". In a contemporary review, Audio magazine said Sweet Old World proves Williams is "a riveting writer and performer whose apparent simplicity is merely the entranceway to a rewarding artist of depth", while Stereo Review wrote "She delivers her searing lines without artificial sentiment or extraneous embellishment, just a wrenching directness that nourishes the spirit and knows no detour to the heart." In a retrospective review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), David McGee and Milo Miles later wrote Williams was a "damned determined artist" on Sweet Old World, in which the perspectives of her previous work--"adult, Southern, female, sensual but neurotic"—were stronger and more focused. ==Track listing==

All tracks written by Lucinda Williams, except where noted. ==Personnel==

• Lucinda Williams – lead vocals, acoustic guitar • Gurf Morlix – electric and acoustic guitar, pedal steel, dobro, mandolin, lap steel, beer bottle and background vocals • Duane Jarvis – electric guitar • John Ciambotti – electric and upright bass • Donald Lindley – drums and percussion • Doug Atwell – fiddle • Byron Berline – fiddle & mandolin • Skip Edwards – Hammond B-3 organ • Benmont Tench – Hammond B-3 organ • William "Smitty" Smith – Hammond B-3 organ • Gia Ciambotti, Jim Lauderdale, Dusty Wakeman – background vocals == Charts ==