Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
by Lucinda Williams
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Lucinda Williams bestography
Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone is ranked 8th best out of 25 albums by Lucinda Williams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lucinda Williams is Car Wheels On A Gravel Road which is ranked number 770 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,241.
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Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  neilgee | Compulsory pointless ton | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | marco17 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 76/100 | 24 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 18/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 11/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2014 | 1/90 | 5 |
| 2025 | Tamthebam | My Overall Chart 101- 200 (1953-2020) | 5/88 | - |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 2014 by The Independent | 2/17 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 47 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 123 | |||
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Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/02/2026 07:39 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,564 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2026 07:07 | Leginlists | 3,789 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 15:56 | cestuneblague | 8,258 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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BestEverAlbums 08/27/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5417): By Tamthebam BestEverAlbums 06/27/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5356): By marco17Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone comments
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The title of this album was inspired by a poem written by the artist's father, Miller Williams:
"Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,
bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone."
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