Even as the Grammy nominations pile up and the Americana sound she helped pioneer becomes increasingly mainstream, Williams has lost none of her underdog cool.
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Lucinda Williams is that rarest of music-industry stories: the ferociously talented cult figure who, eventually, gets to enjoy real-deal success in her own lifetime.
Decades spent tirelessly honing her craft in semi-obscurity finally bore fruit on Williams’ 1998 masterpiece “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” a plainspoken yet poetic weaving of country and heartland rock which cemented her status as one of the great singer-songwriters…