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| Born | January 26, 1953 |
| Hometown | Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America |
| Net worth | $15 million |
| Spouse | Tom Overby (m 2009 - present) , Greg Sowders |
| Parents | Miller Williams |
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New music out now: From Kali Uchis to Dermot Kennedy
Another weekend of the lockdown has passed, and once again we've been blessed by some great new music.We gave good reviews to the new records by Lennon Stella and Lucinda Williams on Friday, but here we've rounded up five new releases from the last few days that might have passed you by.
- EntertainmentThe Independent
Lucinda Williams: ‘I’m here to show people all the good stuff can happen to older women’
You can’t rule me!” roars Lucinda Williams from her sofa in Nashville, where she is quarantined with her husband and manager Tom Overby. Other artists of her vintage have comforted fans through the pandemic with cosy renditions of old favourites, but Williams wants to fire viewers up with her defiance of America’s “dangerous” president.With her kohl-rimmed eyes, peroxide punk hair and ripped jeans, the 67-year-old country rocker has repeatedly scoffed at those who expected her to mellow with age
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Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels review: Blazing, storm-ravaged rock
Lucinda Williams's father was the poet Miller Williams, a protégé of Flannery O’Connor, and the Louisiana singer-songwriter’s music career has had more in common with the slow-burning literary world. She released her debut album in 1979 and didn’t make a commercial breakthrough until Car Wheels on a Gravel Road in 1998. More recently she’s been a prolific writer at the crossroads where country, blues and rock meet.Now 67, she’s doing the opposite of mellowing with age. While the guitars on her l
- EntertainmentThe Independent
Lucinda Williams review, ‘Good Souls, Better Angels’: A doom-laden but defiant album
There are a thousand ways to describe Lucinda Williams’s singing voice – and there have surely been at least that many during the American singer-songwriter’s 40-year career – but “pretty” is not one of them. In the quieter moments of her new album, Good Souls, Better Angels, it sounds like the purring engine of a beat-up pickup truck. When she lets loose, it’s as deadly as a sawn-off shotgun.Having recently completed the anniversary tour of perhaps her most celebrated album, 1998’s country-Amer
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Bruce Springsteen to host 'uplifiting' hour-long radio show on SiriusXM
Bruce Springsteen will host an hour-long radio show this afternoon, “selecting songs and sharing uplifting thoughts”.The Boss will take over the airwaves on his SiriusXM channel E Street Radio from 3pm on April 8, available to stream online for free here.
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Hal Willner death: SNL writers lead tributes to 'unique' music producer
Stars of both TV and music are paying tribute to Hal Willner, after the producer and SNL veteran died aged 64.The cause of his death has not been confirmed, but a representative told The Hollywood Reporter that Willner had symptoms consistent with coronavirus.
