Lucinda Williams
Songs That Last
There are songwriters, and then there is Lucinda Williams. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised partly in Fayetteville, Arkansas — where her father, the poet Miller Williams, taught at the University of Arkansas — Lucinda grew up surrounded by literature, music, and the particular light of the Ozarks. It got into her songs. It stayed there.
Her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is considered one of the essential American records of its era. She's won three Grammy Awards. What she is, at her core, is a folk artist in the oldest sense: someone who makes songs from real life, real grief, real joy, real landscape. This performance feels less like a booking and more like a return.
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Lenore Shoults & Alison Lee
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Anupriya Krishnan and Sangamitra Reshmy
Keith Symanowitz
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Ozark Women in Ballads: Carolina Mendoza, Jude Brothers, and Cindy Woolf
The Meadow Makers
Cory Winters Shapenote Group
Blankenship Family
Chris DeClerk Band with the Delta Soul Singers
Tommy Branch Jr. Blues Band
The Creek Rocks
Pam Setser, Tim Crouch & Danny Dozier
Nick Shoulders with Nokosee Fields and Roy Pilgrim
Nick Shoulders
Ozark songbird, Ouachita warbler, anti-colonial yodels for the rural at heart.
Willi Carlisle
Bobby Rush
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