Lucinda Williams music has gotten her through er darkest days. Its been that way since growing up amid family chaos in the Deep South, as she recounts in her candid new memoir, Dont Tell Anybody the Secrets I told You. Over the past two years, its been the force driving her recovery from a debilitating stroke she suffered on November 17, 2020, at age 67. Her masterful, multi-Grammy-winning songwriting has never deserted her. To wit,her stunning, sixteenth studio album,Stories rom a Rock n Roll Heart, brims over with some of the best work of her career. And though Williams can no longer play her beloved guitar
a constant companion since age 12 her distinctive vocals sound better than ever.
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