LUCINDA WILLIAMS’ BIG INTERVIEW (NEVER MIND SHE'S ONLY 5'5")
On surviving a stroke, collaborating with her soulmate, and missing Tom Petty
September 1, 2024
Lucinda Williams is one of the most celebrated songwriters of her generation—named by Time in 2001 as “America’s Best Songwriter, ” ranked by CMT as one of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music, and included in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time list.
She’s received an honorary doctorate of music from the Berklee College of Music, she was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, and her 1998 breakthrough album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. This year she was elected as a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.