Her father is a poet, Miller Williams, who teaches, used to be at LSU, don't know where he is now. Lucinda was born in Lake Charles, La., but spent time in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georga, Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City as her father moved around the academic circuit. Her godfather is George Haley, brother of Alex Haley. She spent the last 20 years in and out of Austin, where she played for spare change on the drag in the '70s, New Orleans, Nashville and LA. She is a perfectionist, which is why her current album took several years and several generations of producers and sidemen to complete. In short, I don't think she ever picked cotton, but she's got a good eye and ear.
-- Jim Cullen
>On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> So what's Lucinda Williams' story, anyway. Father's a "poet," right? Is she
>> some sophisticate assuming the white trash personna, to the great pleasure
>> of urban intellectuals, or does it come from the bones?
>
>She comes off as a real pretentious fool in interviews, but on record it
>sounds like it comes from the bones. As for authenticity, they do play her
>a lot on the country station that the country people listen to around
>here (WDVX).
>
>Thomas Waters
---------------------------------------- THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST James M. Cullen, Editor P.O. Box 150517, Austin, Texas 78715-0517 Phone: 512-447-0455 Internet: populist at usa.net Home page: http://www.eden.com/~reporter ----------------------------------------