Lucinda

Lucinda Williams has announced the dates of her Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets tour his fall. The headlining tour will be in support of her 15th studio album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, which released last month. The tour will include 15 stops across the Midwest and East Coast, with Williams kicking things off at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Oct. 7. The legendary singer-songwriter will be making stops in St. Louis, Kansas City, Toronto, Boston, and New York City before the final show in Red…

In late 2020, a stroke impaired the motor skills of Louisiana-born Americana pioneer Lucinda Williams to the extent that it robbed her of her ability to play the guitar. Such is the regard in which she is held, an A-list cast (Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Angel Olsen) has come forward to help out on Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart. With that intervention comes the risk of her 15th studio album feeling more like a tribute to Williams than a continuation of her garlanded solo career in its own right.The more…

Which of your tracks are you most proud of? axolotlyI really like Bus to Baton Rouge: the lyrics, the recording, the way it came about. I was thinking about the house my mother’s parents lived in. My grandfather was a Methodist preacher and I remember the way my grandmother would throw the coffee grounds into the garden. She made the best banana pudding. There’s a little darkness in there, too. “The sweet honeysuckle that grew all around / Were switches when we were bad” is about the narrow branches they’d use to whip us.…

It’s a banner year for Lucinda Williams – not only is the alt-country stalwart releasing her first album since she suffered a stroke in 2020, the rollicking Stories from a Rock’n’Roll Heart, she’s also published her first memoir, the superb Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.The latter, she’s said, was her attempt to write the opposite of the kind of “sugarcoated book like you find at Walgreens”. On that front, she succeeded: Williams takes an unflinching look at her childhood, with an absent mother whose mental…

London-based Lucinda Chua makes quietly beautiful music. Signed to 4AD (home to the likes of the Cocteau Twins and Jenny Hval), the multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer‘s work hums with a comforting warmth, be that in the electronic echoes of piano and cello, affirming vocal harmonies, or lyrics that speak as though they’re holding you. “You know it’s not your fault,” she refrains in quasi-lullaby on her recent single Golden.Chua, raised in Milton Keynes, started learning piano at three. She experienced the…

There has always been an emotional vulnerability to the music of Lucinda Williams. Roots, blues, country, Americana, call it what you will – above all, hers are songs that find the tender parts: the taste of sweat, the scent of persimmons, the long drive thinking of a lover.Tonight at the Barbican, that fragility feels amplified. A little over two years ago, Williams suffered a stroke, in the wake of which it seemed unlikely she would return to performing. But this evening she stands on stage, in blue jeans and…