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February, 2000 Robin and Linda Williams In The Company Of Strangers Sugar Hill Records
Here's a perplexing mystery of the Americana scene: Why the devil isn't
this Virginia-based duo as well known as tradition-minded
singer-songwriters Lucinda Williams, Iris DeMent, and Greg Brown?
Judging from In the Company of Strangers, Robin and Linda Williams are
every bit their equals. Contrary to the title, these 11 original songs
(plus an exquisite cover of "Cold, Cold Heart") find the twosome
surrounded by longtime friends
The songs are loving
studies in the art of personal but universal songcraft: clichˇ-bucking
lyrics of sorrowful but inevitable departure, spiritual hope, and
lessons found on life's hardest journeys.
Sung and played with the
effortless intuition of musicians who've immersed themselves in the many
streams of American roots music, this is a wholly satisfying work of
melodic country and time-defying folk art.
Roy Kasten
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