There are any number of ways to take the measure of a record’s life. Only a few of them have little to do with the music itself. You can count the years since it first appeared, tally up the awards, ...

Lucinda Williams is iconic, a songwriter’s songwriter. Her landmark album, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” was inducted into ...

Even as the Grammy nominations pile up and the Americana sound she helped pioneer becomes increasingly mainstream, Williams ...

Lucinda Williams has made a career out of listening to other musicians. On Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the songwriter’s classic 1998 record, she sings, “We’d put on ZZ Top and turn ‘em up real loud,” ...