Lucinda Williams, born in Lake Charles (Lousiana, January 26, 1953), is the embodiment of the female alternative country revival. Blending her blues and folk roots with seventies rock, this long-established "cult" singer with her deep, high voice and wide-ranging influences enjoyed a belated success in 1998 with her fifth album, Cars Wheels on a Gravel Road, twenty years after her recording debut and four albums released between 1979 and 1992. He is credited with a rich repertoire of some one hundred recorded songs, some of which have been covered by his contemporaries (Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Elvis Costello, Ben Folds and Tom Petty). His eleventh album - and first on his own Highway 20 Records label - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, was released in 2014. It is followed two years later by The Ghosts of Highway 20 and collaborations with Charles Lloyd or Jesse Malin. Holder of three Grammy Awards (1994, 1999, 2002) out of seventeen nominations, Lucinda Williams received an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music in 2017, among other distinctions, before signing the Good Souls Better Angels album in 2020, which topped the blues and jazz charts in the UK (No. 144 on the Billboard 200). After a tribute to Tom Petty(Runnin' Down a Dream, 2020), two collections of covers of standards(Southern Soul: From Memphis to Muscle Shoals & More and Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of 60's Country Classics) and an album of Christmas songs(Have Yourself a Rockin' Little Christmas), the fifteenth original album, Stories from a Rock'n'Roll Heart, was released in 2023. She then pays tribute to the Rolling Stones on the live recording It's Only Rock'n'Roll: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones (2020), then four years later to the Beatles with Lucinda Williams Sings the Beatles from Abbey Road, recorded in the Fab Four's fetish studio in London. After the 2025 release of the single "Release Me" with Keith Frank and Tommy McLain, who died that year, Lucinda Williams recorded the album World's Gone Wrong, released early the following year and featuring the duet "So Much Trouble in the World" with Mavis Staples.
