Lucinda Williams

This is not your typical autobiography mainly because Lucinda Williams is one of a kind and lived a tumultuous life. Raised having two ministers as grandfathers, (one liberal and one the opposite) a mentally ill alcoholic mother and a very liberal and tolerant father, she learns to be a survivor with a rebellious streak which she brings to her music. Then there are the men - dozens of flings mainly with bad boy types she mostly regrets later.Ultimately she powers through and writes this memoir from a stable space,… (meer)

This memoir is as honest and no-frills as the songwriter herself. Her background, with a mother with mental illness and a mercurial poet father, sends Lucinda into the arms of many "poets on motorcycles", "cultural chameleons capable of jaw-dropping magic", the good bad boys or bad good boys, who fill her songbook. She loves to travel, feels comfortable commuting between LA, Nashville, and New Orleans. She didn't come into her fame until her forties, being "too rock for country and too country for rock". The song lyrics she includes in the book are lyrical poems, and to hear them sung in her gravel hard voice is to feel how her heart beats along with yours.

Quotes: "I think a lot of my decisions back then were fear-based. I had to grow through different levels of my work. I had trouble communicating what I felt and heard in my head. I wanted to rock before I was able to."

" It takes enormous fortitude to create the work in the first place, but then once it's time to put it out into the world, the confidence required to go public is unrelated to the audacity that created the work."… (meer)

1 Fruits Of My Labor 4:41
2 Righteously 4:36
3 Ventura
Organ [Vox Organ] – Jim Christie
4:37
4 Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings 4:40
5 Overtime 3:52
6 Those Three Days 4:53
7 Atonement 5:47
8 Sweet Side 3:34
9 Minneapolis
Organ [Vox Organ] – Jim Christie
4:03
10 People Talkin' 5:05
11 American Dream
Arranged By [Musical Arrangement] – Doug Pettibone, Jim Christie, Taras Prodaniuk
Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Jim Christie
4:30
12 World Without Tears 4:11
13 Words Fell 4:11
Credits:
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals – Lucinda Williams
Art Direction – Jim Kemp, Lucinda Williams
Bass – Taras Prodaniuk
Drums – Jim Christie
Electric Guitar, Harmonica – Doug Pettibone… (meer)