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Author:
Lucinda Williams
Publisher:
Crown
Date:
April 25, 2023
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her fatherâa poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of partiesâgot a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomyâan inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions.
What The Reviewers Say
Captivating.
Williams’s memoir is as flinty, earthy and plain-spoken as her songs.
Throughout the book, she tells you who the songs were about—guys who committed suicide, guys who did her wrong, guys who gave her a little pleasure and a lot of pain—but, really, they’re about you. She wrote songs about desire, about flirtation, about bad behavior that felt so good.
Remarkable for its true insight into the author as a person and as an artist.
