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…

Saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd and singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams have just announced that they'll be releasing a new collaborative album, Vanished Gardens, later this year. Today they share its lead single "We’ve Come Too Far To Turn Around." A horn opening transitions into Williams' strong, almost Janis Joplin-like vocals. The so...

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the New York folk singer Karen Dalton released a couple of albums of spindly, meditative folk-blues before disappearing into obscurity. She died in 1993, and years after her death, people started to rediscover her music. Dalton left behind a fair amount of music that she never released, and [&...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lucinda Williams had considered releasing a double CD at least once before, but her record company argued against it. Now the veteran singer-songwriter is putting music out on her own label.