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Sweet Old World was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice ' s Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. [10] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, [11] 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 ...
Year Title Role Notes 2012 Sweet Old World: Ethan Hinkle 2016 The Golden Rut: Street Guy 2017 When We Burn Out: Devin 2018 Age Out: Laborer 2018 Blood Brother
This Sweet Old World is the 13th studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on September 29, 2017, by Highway 20 Records and Thirty Tigers.A re-recording of her 1992 album Sweet Old World, [1] Williams was motivated to revisit the older material by her husband and manager Tom Overby, who co-produced the album with her. [2]
It was released in 1993 as the fourth single from her fourth album, Sweet Old World (1992). The song was featured in the 1996 drama film Unhook the Stars, [1] and the 2014 Cheryl Strayed biographical adventure film Wild. [2] It was also featured in the 2005 HBO miniseries Empire Falls. [3]
In 2017, This Sweet Old World was released on Highway 20 Records in conjunction with Nashville, Tennessee based distribution company Thirty Tigers, followed by the critically acclaimed Good Souls Better Angels in 2020. Later that year, Williams began "Lu's Jukebox", a six-episode series of themed live performances. [3]
The film became an instant hit all over the world, with lines stretching for blocks. It was the highest grossing motion picture in the world in 1918, grossing $18 million over a 4-year period, when admission prices were between about 25¢ and $1. Adjusting for inflation, in 2024 dollars, it grossed $372,316,291 over four years.
Williams re-recorded Sweet Old World for its 25th anniversary in 2017, and released it under the new title This Sweet Old World. [1] " Six Blocks Away" was again released as the lead single, and Rolling Stone described the re-recorded version as "reinvigorated with a chiming, jangly Rickenbacker guitar line that evokes everyone from Tom Petty ...
Sweet Old World was met with further critical acclaim and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice ' s Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. [7] Robert Christgau , the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, [ 8 ] later writing that the album as well as Lucinda Williams were "gorgeous, flawless ...