“It’s too country for rock and too rock for country.” That’s what record company executives would tell Lucinda Williams to explain why they wouldn’t be signing her to produce an album. Thus one of America’s most revered songwriters spent nearly two decades struggling to find a place in a music business too rigidly genre-bound to take a chance on her boundary-breaking style. Fifteen studio albums later, Williams’s status as an icon of American music is secure. In June, she released Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, joined by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Margo Price, and Angel Olsen on backup. This summer, she’ll tour alongside youthful indie folk band Big Thief, proving her power to appeal across generations.
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