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I started writing more with my voice in mind.

Lucinda Williams

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Lucinda Williams
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 26
Composer
Entrepreneur
Music Arranger
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Lucinda Gayl Williams
Lucinda Gayle Williams
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
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First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
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The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
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When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
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I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
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So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
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Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
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I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
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I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.
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I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
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I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way
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I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.
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