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I know that for every critic there’ll be a 100 lovers, but there should be room here for adverse comment, so here goes anyway – my review on Amazon:
After that great run of albums from ‘Car Wheels’ to ‘West’ I’m afraid with the exception of a few tracks on ‘Little Honey’ and ‘Blessed’ its been a downhill slide for me. Lucinda found love and made that plain on ‘Little Honey, particularly with the extended tracks ‘Rarity’ and ‘Knowing’. On the latest we’ve got ‘Awakening’. Mixed up with all of these slower cuts she’s belting out over-heavy stuff like ‘Honey Bee’ and ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top’. I don’t quite know what it is, whether her voice ain’t what it used to be or that the quality of her songwriting has been affected by ‘Real Love!’ Too many (about 8) of them really drone on a bit I’m afraid. I’m a big fan and on this album I love ‘Copenhagen’, Seeing Black’ and ‘Awakening.’ Add these to ‘Best of Lucinda’ I guess.
There you go guys, get your teeth into that! 🙁

‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Seeing Black’ – two sides of Lucinda – the outstanding tracks for me. And ‘Awakening’ is a real slow burner! 8)

Thanx guys, just had a taster on iTunes. Interestingly there’s an instrumental version of
‘Diamonds to Dust’ ‘Birth to Boneyard’ 8)

What about UK release IJ? 8)

On tonite’s listen the choice tracks are ‘Knowing’ and ‘Rarity’ – no coincidence that they’re laid back with beautifully interwoven horns. It’s evening here in the uk and they suit the mood perfectly. Mellow. 8)
Ps. I still really don’t like Elvis’ ‘Jailhouse’ so I’ll stick to Lu’s solo version. 😉

Can someone identify/clarify availability of (5?)bonus tracks please?
On uk iTunes we’ve got early versions of ‘real love’ and ‘jailhouse’ and ‘I live my life”.
I got the cd thru Amazon. What are the others and will we get them in uk? 😕

Agree with scarletribbon ’bout ‘heaven blues’, but where’s the prefabricated concrete coal-bunker?
(apologies to the Bonzos) 😀