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''Sweet Old World'' is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released on August 25, 1992.〔 == Critical reception == 〕 | rev2 = ''Christgau's Consumer Guide'' | rev2Score = A | rev3 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev3Score = B+ | rev4 = ''Q'' | rev4Score = | rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev5Score = 〔 Posted January 29, 1997.〕 | rev6 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev6Score = | rev7 = ''Spin Alternative Record Guide'' | rev7Score = 8/10 }} ''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. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album was "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant () 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), Dave Marsh 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.〔 AllMusic's Steve Huey said it was just as good as her 1988 self-titled album, calling it "a gorgeous, elegiac record that not only consolidates but expands Williams' ample talents."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sweet Old World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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