Lucinda Williams continues her remarkable recovery from a stroke with a new album. Photo: The ObserverBorn in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1953 to American poet Miller Williams and pianist Lucille Fern Day, Lucinda Williams is a multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. I find that if I’m angry, it’s good to write about stuff through the eyes of regular, everyday people. Inevitably, she’ll bring up Bob Dylan’s name and say: "Well, I just saw Bob the other day, he’s doing such and such." Q Your breakthrough came on the English label Rough Trade, which you signed to in 1987, when it was home to the Smiths.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 06, 2026 15:02 UTC