Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Gayle Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk and country music singer, songwriter and musician.

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I know—they treat it like it’s a big phenomena. It would be like, “all-girl band” or “girl drummer” and I’d be like, “Why can’t you just say drummer?” Female this, female that. It’s an oddity.
- On how women are perceived in the music industry in “Lucinda Williams On the Hard and Sedulous Road to Major Label Success” in She Shreds (2017 Mar 6)

I grew up being aware that I was Southern, and that being a very important thing for me. And being drawn to short story writers, like Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty—the surroundings in their stories were so familiar to me, the whole Southern Gothic thing. That world only existed in that part of the country. It’s going to inform the personality of the songs. In a lot of my songwriting, I mention towns and places. It’s a culturally traditional thing in the South to tell stories.
- On how her Southern heritage informed her songwriting in “Lucinda Williams On the Hard and Sedulous Road to Major Label Success” in She Shreds (2017 Mar 6)

My mother passed away in 2004, and then my dad 10 years later. That period in between, I wrote songs like “Death Came”, and then after my father passed away I wrote, “If There’s A Heaven” and “If My Love Could Kill”, which I wrote about the Alzheimer’s disease that killed my father. There’s a lot of dealing with loss, and heavy stuff, and life. It’s a lot different of an album than some of my earlier ones, like Essence, when I was still struggling with unrequited love as a younger girl.
- On how her album Ghosts of Highway 20 differs from her prior albums in “Lucinda Williams On the Hard and Sedulous Road to Major Label Success” in She Shreds (2017 Mar 6)

I was always into different kinds of music but just by default, I was singing and playing acoustic guitar; I didn’t know how to dance or anything. So it would take some time, over a year, for me to kind of progress into the stuff that I ended up doing later, the more Southern soul, country-rock, whatever-you-want-to-call-it kind of thing.
- On her 1980 album Happy Woman Blues in “Lucinda Williams Looks Back on Every Album She’s Ever Made” in Spin (2016 Feb 25)

I think what informs my songwriting is my empathy with that. Maybe that’s what bothers people. It scares them to go to the edge of the well and look in. But it’s what they like also. And wouldn’t you rather feel the pain than not feel anything?
- On how suicide, sadness and melancholia informs Williams’ songwriting in “Lucinda Williams interview: 'I’ve earned the right to say what I like’” in The Telegraph (2013 May 25)

Do I want too much?
Am I going overboard to want that touch?
I shouted out to the night:
"Give me what I deserve, cause it's my right!"
- "Passionate Kisses"

He sleeps all alone on Second Street
With a roof over his head and food to eat.
But he can hardly make it day to day cause
Everything he wants is six blocks away, six blocks away.
- "Six Blocks Away"

Just a shakin' in my knees, just a cold chill.
Don't know what it is, just call it a thrill.
Just a lump in my throat, just hot blood.
Don't know what it is, some call it love.
- "Hot Blood"

Not a day goes by I don't think about you;
You left your mark on me, it's permanent, a tattoo.
Pierce the skin and the blood runs through,
Oh my baby.
- "Right in Time"

You don't have to prove
Your manhood to me constantly.
I know you're the man can't you see?
I love you, righteously.
- "Righteously"

Are you alright?
All of a sudden you went away.
Are you alright?
I hope you come back around someday.
- "Are You Alright?"

Sometimes the best intentions are never truly met,
And all your expectations are never what you get.
You’ll never say why, or come up with a reason;
You’ve been weakened by a string of bad decisions.
- "Burning Bridges"

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