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A close-up of Lucinda Williams.

Lucinda Williams

It was 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road that made Lucinda WIlliams a star — and that 13-track album holds up as a no-skip wonder on the dive bar honkytonk bayou-side jukebox of your dreams. She’s made an astonishing amount of music (11 albums) since that landmark, and is touring in support of her 2023 album Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart. Williams, now recovered from a 2021 stroke, continues to write music where what is said, and sung, is as crucial as what is not.

media release: True Endeavors Presents LUCINDA WILLIAMS and HER BAND

DON’T TELL ANYBODY THE SECRETS TOUR

Featuring Stories, Songs, Visuals

Tickets: $49.00 Advance; Gold Circle: $69.00 Advance

Tickets on sale to the general public on Friday, April 12 @ 10AM!

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Lucinda Williams’ music has gotten her through her darkest days. It’s been that way since growing up amid family chaos in the Deep South, as she recounts in her candid new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I told You. Over the past two years, it’s been the force driving her recovery from a debilitating stroke she suffered on November 17, 2020, at age 67. Her masterful, multi-Grammy-winning songwriting has never deserted her. To wit, her stunning, sixteenth studio album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, brims over with some of the best work of her career. And though Williams can no longer play her beloved guitar – a constant companion since age 12 – her distinctive vocals sound better than ever.

“I’m singing my ass off,” she told Vanity Fair in February, following her first European tour since 2019. The love emanating from audiences and her musical family onstage and in the studio exemplify the healing power of music, says Williams. In 2020, she spent a week in intensive care, followed by a month in rehab before returning home. The blood clot on the right side of her brain impaired the left side of her body’s motor skills, forcing her to relearn some of the most basic of activities, like walking. In July 2021, she played her first gig, opening for Jason Isbell at Red Rocks. She began seated in a wheelchair, but soon she was upright. “Just the energy of the audiences being so welcoming and warm and the band playing so great and being so supportive gave me so much strength,” Williams relates. “I figured, ‘Hell, all I have to do is stand up there and sing. How hard can that be?”