Lucinda Williams

Williams is one of the great American songwriters, a poet of dusty highways, hard love, and Southern longing whose voice cracks in exactly the right places. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is a stone-cold masterpiece, an album she famously labored over until every detail rang true, and that perfectionism is all over her catalog. She is fiercely her own artist, refusing to be boxed into country or rock or blues because she contains all of them. Even after a stroke, she has kept writing and performing with undimmed grit. I rank her among the most literate and soulful songwriters this country has produced.

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Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A celebrated figure in Americana, country, rock, and blues, she is best known for her acclaimed 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. She has won multiple Grammy Awards over her career, the first coming in 1993 when Mary Chapin Carpenter recorded her song 'Passionate Kisses.'

Name (English)

Lucinda Williams

Name (Japanese)

ルシンダ・ウィリアムス

Reading

るしんだ・うぃりあむす

Born

January 26, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

Singer-songwriter / Composer / Music producer / Arranger / Entrepreneur

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 1993 Grammy Award

• Official sitehttps://www.lucindawilliams.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lucinda_williams/
• Xhttps://x.com/happywoman9
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda%20Williams
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256813

Tags

• From Louisiana
• Singer-songwriter
• Composer
• Music producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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