Lucinda Williams

"To write about something sad and dark, I need to feel content, to feel a sense of well being. I can't write when I'm depressed," Lucinda Williams told me. Much of my discussion with Williams focused on how we prepare to write. By her own admission, she's obsessed with paper. "I could spend hours in an office supply store," says Williams. A comfortable chair is necessary too, but not too comfortable because, well, it's easy to fall asleep in a deep chair. And coffee is important, not necessarily because of the caffeine but because of the nostalgic element. We also did some close reading of her father's poetry . I've been a big fan of Miller Williams for many years and taught his poems when I was in academia. We discussed his ability to take decidedly unpoetic images and phrases like radar detector and cellular phone and make them beautiful. Lucinda Williams' latest album is called World's Gone Wrong.

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Lucinda Williams is an episode from Songwriters on Process by Ben Opipari.

This episode is 57:09 long.

This episode was published on Jan 7, 2026.

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