"It took singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams eight years to get out her third album, a self-titled affair on the Rough Trade label that featured mostly original songs. But it was worth the wait. Lucinda Williams from 1988 was the kind of recording that makes an impact ... The second disc brings you through the album again, live, with a tight band that lives up to the original even as it covers some older (and newer songs). The treat here, perhaps, is the straight-forward "Crescent City", with nice, heavy guitar work, or the quiet "Something About What Happens When We Talk", a song that would appear on Williams' next studio record, Sweet Old World, featuring a very effective background vocal part".