A few days before Thanksgiving last year, Lucinda Williams was in the bathroom of her Nashville home getting ready to take a shower when she began to have trouble keeping her balance. She stumbled a bit and couldn’t stand up straight. Even more frightening, Williams couldn’t walk. She called out …
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Arriving the day after Donald Trump told us all we’d all feel better if we just went and shot some bleach into our bodies, here’s a little anti-Trump invective we definitely need right now. Roots-rock icon Lucinda Williams just released Good Souls Better Angels, arguably her best album since her …
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The 2020 edition of the Luck Reunion has announced its lineup. Lucinda Williams, Orville Peck, Margo Price, and perennial Luck headliner Willie Nelson are all set to perform at the daylong festival held on Nelson’s Luck Ranch outside of Austin. Slated for March 19th, the Luck Reunion brings together left-of-center …
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Last week’s fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise featured no less than four eclectic guitar pulls, culminating with an all-star final night lineup of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, and Son Volt‘s Jay Farrar. Each artist sang three songs, including new material from Williams (“Big Black Train,” …
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