Album Reviews

Album reviews: Lucinda Williams sings a raw song of triumph over adversity

Her remarkable stamina and strength, distinctive talent and unvarnished authenticity hit all the right notes in this collaborative album

Lucinda Williams was discharged three years ago from an intensive care unit

Lucinda Williams, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers)

Some people are survivors, pure and simple. While it’s easy enough to place Lucinda Williams into this category since she was discharged three years ago from an intensive care unit (following a debilitating stroke), it’s just as easy when you consider that she can no longer play the guitar. To say that Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart triumphs because of that ...