Essence (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Essence
Type = Album
Artist = Lucinda Williams


Released = June 5, 2001
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative country
Length = 50:58
Label = Lost Highway
Producer = Bo Ramsey Tom Tucker Lucinda Williams
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3r0qoa9aqijb link]
*"The A.V. Club" (Favourable) [http://avclub.com/content/node/12747 link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=847&name=Lucinda+Williams link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/lucindawilliams/albums/album/201972/review/6068309/essence link]
Last album = "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" (1998)
This album = "Essence" (2001)
Next album = "World Without Tears" (2003) |

"Essence" is Lucinda Williams' sixth album. It was released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 28, selling about 44,500 copies in its first week. [Todd Martens, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=923154 "Staind Fends Off Radiohead, St. Lunatics At No. 1"] , Billboard.com, June 14, 2001.] According to "Billboard" in February 2008, the album has sold 336,000 copies in the U.S. [Caulfield, Keith. [http://billboard.com/bbcom/ask_bb/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003708948 "Ask Billboard - Williams' Wild 'West'"] . "Billboard". February 8 2008.]

Track listing

#"Lonely Girls"
#"Steal Your Love"
#"I Envy the Wind"
#"Blue"
#"Out of Touch"
#"Are You Down"
#"Essence"
#"Reason to Cry"
#"Get Right With God"
#"Bus to Baton Rouge"
#"Broken Butterflies"

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