![]() ![]() “To tell you the truth,” she says, “the whole experience has been kind of fascinating.” She seems remarkably unfazed by her physical ordeal. She talks slowly, with a drawl – but that has always been her way. Today Williams looks good, with shaggy hair and a slim-fitting leather jacket her smile is warm, her eyes lively. Indeed, in 2002, Time magazine hailed her as “America’s best songwriter”, inspiring Bob Dylan to joke, “I guess I was out of town”. Her Grammy-winning catalogue of hundreds of leanly crafted, sharply observed country-rock-inflected songs of love, sex, death and hard living doesn’t contain a single dud. Williams is an American classic, up there with the all-time greats. Some people say it sounds better than it did before.” ![]() “I still can’t play guitar, unfortunately. “It’s been a trip, learning to walk again,” she says, with surprising humour. The 70-year-old singer-songwriter suffered a stroke in November 2020 that has left her with impaired motor skills on the left-hand side of her body. Her husband, Tom Overby, hovers solicitously as she settles at a seat by the window. ![]() Lucinda Williams enters the London hotel bar slowly and stiffly, walking with the aid of a stick. ![]()
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