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
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.
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.
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.
maybe might particular process song stay stop thinking
There's this process that comes about in writing a song where you just stop and see where it can go. Generally, a song will stay with the same idea. I might be thinking about a particular person, for instance. Then it will kind of go from there. And maybe by the end of the song, it will become something more universal.
song real genuine
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
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.
breakup song inspiration
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
change song thinking
Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
dream song writing
Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.
song teenager writing
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
song strong nice
When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.
song writing good-enough
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
sweet song world
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.