Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 January 1953
CityLake Charles, LA
CountryUnited States of America
song art self
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
art world offers
Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
song mean artist
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
artist down-and way
I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.
life reflected time
The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
grab might time
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
heart lie
Could tell a lie but my heart would know.
asked couple dad evenings felt fond hank living memories met might playing reading seemed shows sitting songs talk time together williams writer
We've done about a half-dozen of these shows together over the years, and from the first time, it seemed special. It felt comfortable to me, because I was used to sitting around with dad and some of his writer cronies in the living room, playing songs and him reading a couple of poems. I have fond memories of those evenings when we'd be sitting around and I would be asked to play. I might play a Hank Williams song or something like that, and he'd talk about the time he met Hank Williams.
attention grew
I grew up around writers. And it's all about attention to detail.
songs
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
coming everyday inspired life
I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.
good last maybe paper pieces songs
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.
car life older songs wrote
Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.
speaking
Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?