25 January 2026
Artist: LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Who: Longtime lauded and award-winning
songstress (now aged 72) from Louisiana.
New album: WORLD’S GONE WRONG
Her 16th.
Press info: “Gone Wrong captures Williams responding to global and personal upheaval through deeply human songs that balance grit with grace. Joined by Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, and Brittney Spencer, she channels blues, country, and rock traditions into something profoundly of its time — a reminder of music’s power to witness, resist, and heal.”
UNCUT Magazine (British glossy music monthly): “Williams reveals her chief preoccupation: America and where it stands today. Her natural impulse is to channel compassion, concern, empathy and anxiety in a batch of wise songs that know their past and present but refuse to crumple or compromise.
One year into Donald Trump’s second term, Williams knows people need to feel their woes
are acknowledged and understood, and more so, that they need hope for a kinder future.
The music is straight and soothing, a band coming together in a rootsy salve as Williams returns to a favourite theme, deliverance through music. She is engaged in nothing less
than a battle for America’s soul.”
Williams: “We are here to bear witness to this monstrous sickness.”
TUTV: If you have any kind of common sense, you’re disgusted by that orange dictator’s damaging politics in the White House. First of all, all the not-brainwashed Americans, of course, but also at least half of the world despises him because of his ‘Me, Myself and I‘ politics.
Lucinda Williams is one of those millions of Americans who are sick of this MAGA cult POTUS. She embeds her rage into a series of most captivating songs, sonically, vocaly and lyrically. World’s Gone Wrong is both a worrying, candid, and sharp-observing record. Don’t miss it.
The two singles.
– WE’VE COME TOO FAR TO TURN AROUND –
– THE WORLD’S GONE WRONG –
ALBUM
(No streaming
on Spotify)
Other platforms to stream the LP on here.