She never chose between country rock, blues, or folk. It’s unsurprising, seeing as the song itself is all that matters to this Louisiana rocker, who is considered one of the most edgy and talented musicians in America. She proves it once again on her evocatively titled 15th album, “Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart”.

When she first started out, she was thought to be too rock n’ roll for the country scene, and too countryfied for the rock scene... In the end, Lucinda Williams imposed her own unique singer/songwriter style to become one of the queens of Americana, a form that barely existed in the early 80s.

With her incandescent pen, capable of magnifying any shade of melancholy with just a couple of words and a whisper, Lucinda Williams has always rooted her songs in folk, country, blues, and even soul. This inspiration came from the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Townes Van Zandt, but even more so from the southern writers she worships; authors such as Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty, whose texts have nourished her lyrics. Her father Miller Williams, himself a poet, was perhaps the most important influence of them all.