It's now been 42 years since the long-beloved, tough-as-hell country-rock singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams released her debut album. Her masterpiece Car Wheels On A Gravel Road came out in the waning days of the Clinton administration, when Williams was already a hardened veteran. Lucinda Williams is now 67 years old, and her voice still carri...

Lucinda Williams has announced a new album, Good Souls Better Angels, the follow-up to 2017's Sweet Old World rerecording This Sweet Old World and her first full-length of new material since 2016's The Ghosts Of Highway 20. Williams co-wrote many of the LP's songs with her husband, Tom Overby, and they co-produced it with Ray…

Another covers album is to be releasedPhoto of LEMONHEADS and Evan DANDO; Posed portrait of Evan Dando (c), Gram Parsons t-shirt The Lemonheads have announced their return with a new album dropping in February 2019. ‘Varshons II’ is the follow-up to the Boston band’s 2009 covers album, ‘Varshons’...

Crusty, eccentric 68-year-old Tom Waits does things on his own schedule, when he feels like it. Before this morning, we hadn't heard a new recording from Waits since February of 2016, when he and Lucinda Williams covered a Blind Willie Johnson song. But today, Waits has showed up on a new track. Once again, it's…

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels On A Gravel Road turns 20 this year, and the musician has just announced that she'll embark on a special anniversary tour this fall to mark the occasion. She'll play the album in full and then follow it up with a selection of songs from her long career, all backed by…