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Early career īy her early 20s, Williams was playing publicly in Austin and Houston, Texas, concentrating on a blend of folk, rock, and country. Her first live performance was in Mexico City at 17, as part of a duo with her friend, banjo player Clark Jones. She showed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12. Williams started writing when she was 6 years old. Williams never graduated from high school but was accepted into the University of Arkansas. Her father worked as a visiting professor in Mexico and different parts of the United States, including Baton Rouge New Orleans Jackson, Mississippi and Utah before settling at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Like her father, Williams has spina bifida. Williams' father gained custody of her and her younger brother, Robert Miller, and sister, Karyn Elizabeth. Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams, and amateur pianist Lucille Fern Day. 426, on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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In 2020, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road ranked No. 91 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time. In 2017, she received the Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree, and ranked No. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked her as the 79th greatest songwriter of all time. 97 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999, and was named "America's best songwriter" by Time magazine in 2002. Among her various accolades, she has won three Grammy Awards, from 17 nominations, and has received two Americana Awards (one competitive, one honorary), from 11 nominations. One of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of her generation, Williams has released a string of albums since that have earned her further critical acclaim and commercial success, including World Without Tears (2003), West (2007), Little Honey (2008), Blessed (2011), and Good Souls Better Angels (2020). Featuring a more downbeat musical tone, with spare, intimate arrangements, the album earned Williams three Grammy nominations in 2002, including Best Contemporary Folk Album, while the single "Get Right with God" won her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Williams' follow up album, Essence, appeared three years later in 2001, to further critical acclaim and commercial success, becoming her first Top 40 album on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA the following year, and earned her a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, while being universally acclaimed by critics. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which includes the singles "Right in Time" and the Grammy nominated "Can't Let Go", became Williams' greatest commercial success to date.
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Williams' commercial breakthrough came in 1998 with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, an album presenting a broader scope of songs that fused rock, blues, country and Americana into a distinctive style that remained consistent and commercial in sound. Sweet Old World was met with further critical acclaim, and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice 's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Known for working slowly, Williams' fourth album, Sweet Old World, appeared four years later in 1992. Widely regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features " Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. In 1988, she released her eponymous third album, Lucinda Williams, to critical raves. She recorded her first albums, Ramblin' on My Mind (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980), in a traditional country and blues style and received little public or radio attention. Lucinda Gayle Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk and country music singer, songwriter and musician.