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| Lucinda Williams |
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"The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle. You know, the kind who lives on the edge, the free spirit. But he's also gotta have the soul of a poet and a brilliant mind. So, you know, good luck."
-Lucinda Williams
| Date of Birth: January 26, 1953 |
| Birthplace: Lake Charles, Louisiana |
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| For fans of folk and rock music in the south, Williams has been famous for over 20 years. For the rest of us, she entered our worlds when her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road made its way onto almost every critic's top 10 list of the year. |
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| Now in her early 50s, Lucinda Williams is the sexiest embodiment of a folk/country/rock musician we've ever seen. |
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Lucinda Williams was born on January 26, 1953 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Considering that she would grow up to be a singer-songwriter, it's no surprise that her father was award-winning poet and English professor, Miller Williams, and that her mother was a concert pianist. In other words, Lucinda is both literally and figuratively the result of music meeting poetry.
As a child, Lucinda was both blessed and cursed by her father's profession. Blessed in the fact that her father's connections to the art world meant that Lucinda was able to hang around famous writers and musicians like country legend George Jones, a regular at the Williams home. She was cursed with the sad reality that a college professor in search of tenure must take positions wherever they are available. For young Lucinda, this meant stops throughout the American south, Mexico City, and even Santiago, Chile.
Uprooting every few years meant that Lucinda's only consistent companion was music. In addition to the classical and folk music favored by her parents, Lucinda fell in love with Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. She poured herself into the music and slowly began improving her skills.
She began performing during her teen years, but agreed to put her musical dreams on hold to attend the University of Texas in Austin. Perhaps it was fate intervening, but her choice of school landed her smack dab in the middle of the cosmic cowboy movement of the early 1970s. This was a collection of artists and academics in the southwest who began fusing elements of folk, traditional, and rock music with Native American, Eastern and Christian philosophies. With a captive audience and no shortage of gigs to play, Williams dropped out of college after her freshman year. |
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