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Zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier would have turned 100 this year; a new album featuring the Rolling Stones and Lucinda Williams ...
DON’T TELL ANYBODY THE SECRETS I TOLD YOU: A Memoir, by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams, the Grammy-winning 70-year-old songwriter, was born in Lake Charles, La. Her grandfathers were both ...
Lucinda Williams was 10 years old in 1963 and living in Santiago, Chile when she caught Beatlemania. She listened to the band on the radio, tacked Beatles posters to her bedroom walls, pasted ...
When Lucinda Williams’ breakout album “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” was nearly ready for release in 1998, the head of her record label wanted to hire filmmaker Paul Schrader to make a video ...
“Music was my therapy for the many traumas I suffered as a child,” Lucinda Williams writes in her new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Those traumas include her mother’s ...
To paraphrase one of her most evocative lyrics, there's something about what happens when you listen to a Lucinda Williams song. The plain but cultivated beauty of her phrase-turning draws you in ...
There's something wonderfully contrarian about Lucinda Williams ending one of her multi-year silences with a double album. In 2014, no one is supposed to have time to appreciate three straight ...
Before she was famous in her own right, Lucinda Williams won a Grammy for “Passionate Kisses,” a song of hers that became a hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter. “My reaction was mixed,” Williams ...