More Lucinda Williams information on her official website.
 |
 |
Lucinda Williams Bio
Four-time Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams was dubbed “America’s Best Songwriter,” by Time magazine, and most recently “Come On” snagged the Grammy for Best Rock Song this February. Williams’ unflagging and openhearted singing lends a timeless feel to her music.
It’s long been said that the blues -- in all its forms -- is one of the most potent means to transform pain into beauty. Lucinda Williams has known that since she began devouring music as a youngster growing up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and she’s been finding new ways to perform that alchemical reaction ever since.
The singer-songwriter channels both her emotion and restive creative energy into a startling set of songs that touch on both darkness and redemption. Her lyrics attest to her willingness to stretch as a musician -- and to put herself on the line as a chronicler of life. “I get tired of people looking at my songs and feeling that they’re all sad and dark,” she says. “There’s more to them than that; it’s a full circle, like I’ve come through a metamorphosis.”
“The songs deal with chapters in my life and they definitely tell a story,” says Williams. Many of her songs serve to enliven and affirm, albeit in decidedly non-Hallmark fashion. Stinging guitar grabs the listener by the lapels, all the better for Williams to deliver a knockout blow with a flurry of acerbic, double-entendre lyrics and sharp wordplay. Very much in the tradition of the blues -- “There are only so many subjects you can write about. Every song and every poem is about one of them -- love, sex, death, loss, redemption”, says Williams.
|
Concerts in the Garden - Lucinda Williams
