To paraphrase one of her most evocative lyrics, there's something about what happens when you listen to a Lucinda Williams song. Here's a playlist for those who already love her — and for those who want to know more about her. 👇
today, was born to this process. Her father Miller was, in fact, a poet and a literature professor, and after a youth moving around the Deep South, she modified the family trade to become a singer-songwriter. A folk singer at first, Williams broke through in the late 1980s in the wake of a group of artists — Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett — who took rock and roll chances with roots-music legacies.
Williams's testimonies to survival despite hard living and lost opportunities, and her elegies for absent friends and lovers, connect her to the blues, the form for which she first fell. From country music she learned the practice of turning glimpses of the private — a pot of coffee bubbling, the lines at the edges of a beloved's eyes — into metaphors through which life reveals itself.
Here's a playlist for people who already love Lucinda Williams and for those who want to know more about her.The title track of her album masterpiece, an impressionistic account of the fugitive childhood Williams's academic father gave her, contains everything great about this songwriter: resonant details, a unique but relatable perspective, and deep feeling rising through everyday talk like humid summer steam.
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