Lucinda Williams was the musical guest on last night’s Fallon, and the host called the singer-songwriter one of his favorites. She performed “Protection” off of her new double LP, Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, along with some assistance from the Roots. Watch the performance below. Down Where The Spirit Meets...

Lucinda Williams, "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" (Highway 20)

I turned 35 yesterday, which means I am old as shit, and the veteran roots-rock singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has been making music for longer than I’ve been alive. Williams will drop her 11th studio album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone later this month, and she’s already shared the early track “Stowaway ...

Lucinda Williams has been cranking out tough, vulnerable, personal, badass alt-country for the past 35 years. Next month, she’ll release a double album called Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, her 11th studio effort. Its first single is a fiddle-and-guitar ramble called “Stowaway In Your Heart,” and it&#8217...

The hardbitten alt-country queen Lucinda Williams isn’t the first person you’d expect to see on the soundtrack to Disney’s forthcoming Lone Ranger movie, which does not look like a good movie. But Williams is on there, joining fellow Americana heroes like Dave Alvin and Iron & Wine — the first evi...