Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans. And today I'm talking

with someone whose music I've loved for a long time. Lucinda Williams was born in Lake Charles,

Louisiana, a place she would memorialize in one of her most famous songs.

But she didn't stay there for long, moving with her folks to a string of college towns where her father taught poetry and literature.

Her peripatetic life and her mother's mental illness led to a sometimes difficult childhood, but music gave her an outlet,

and her raw, honest lyrics have made her one of the most celebrated singer-songwriters

to ever come out of the South. Despite three Grammys and countless other awards, she's never

fit neatly into any particular genre, and she never wanted to. Now she has a new memoir called

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You and a new album called Stories from a Rock and Roll

Heart, her first since having a stroke back in 2020. We'll talk about all that, plus what it was

like having Bruce Springsteen join her as a backup singer on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Well, Lucinda Williams, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.

Thank you. I love the name of it, Biscuits and Jam.

That's almost what I had for breakfast. I had toast and jam.

Well, we could call this episode toast and jam. No, biscuits is better.

Well, listen, Lucinda, I've got to start out by saying thank you because my very first date with my wife was at one of your concerts in New York City in

1999.

Okay.

And I think it was at the Roseland Ballroom, and it was just a magical night of music.

I mean, it was an incredible show, and we've been married for 20 years now.

So thank you for getting us off to the right start.

I feel like I was partly responsible for a 20-year marriage.

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