Alongside the likes of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle, Lucinda
Williams was part of a gang of hard-drinking country songwriters who congregated
in Austin, Texas in the mid-1970s. The daughter of a literature professor and
poet, Williams was born on January 26th, 1953 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and
first started performing as a 17-year-old in Mexico City before finding herself
in Texas in her mid-twenties, surrounded by a wealth of brilliant songwriters.
Her early albums Ramblin' (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980) received little
attention but she moved to Nashville...