'I Get Angry, Too': Lucinda Williams On Her Politically-Charged New Album

Lucinda Williams: 'I see this all the time ... people saying 'Shut up and sing. Don't get involved in politics. That's not your job.' Well sorry, I beg to differ. Go back and listen to Woody Guthrie. It is my job as far as I'm concerned.'

as part of a long line of political country music."Go back and listen to Woody Guthrie. It is my job, as far as I'm concerned," she says.Lucinda Williams sees her new albumas part of a long line of political country music."Go back and listen to Woody Guthrie. It is my job, as far as I'm concerned," she says.Like just about all of us, Lucinda Williams has not been able to get away from the news cycle these past few years.

So what changed? You said you've always wanted to write more topical songs. You've been doing this for decades. Why now? and Dick Gregory and going to anti-war demonstrations and handing out SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] leaflets at school, getting kicked out of high school for not saying the pledge of allegiance. So it's always been in my blood.You talked about, in your words,"the worst president in history," and I want to talk about a song on the album called"Man Without A Soul.

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