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Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953)〔(Lucinda Williams biography ). AllMusic. Retrieved on October 7, 2008.〕 is an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album, ''Lucinda Williams''. This release featured "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams recorded and released only one other album in the next several years (''Sweet Old World'' in 1992) before her greatest success 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 more distinctive style that still managed to remain consistent and commercial in sound. It went gold and earned Williams another Grammy while being universally acclaimed by critics. Since ''Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'', she has released a string of albums that have also been critically acclaimed, though none has sold in the numbers of her 1998 breakthrough. She was also named "America's best songwriter" by ''TIME'' magazine in 2002.〔("'Essence' of the South" ). ''CNN''/''TIME''. Retrieved on October 7, 2008.〕 ==Early life== Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist. Her parents divorced in the mid-1960s with Williams's father gaining custody of her and her younger brother and sister. Like her father, she has spina bifida. 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. Williams never graduated high school but was accepted to the University of Arkansas. Williams started writing when she was 6 years old and showed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12. Williams's first live performance was in Mexico City at 17, as part of a duo with her friend, a banjo player named Clark Jones.〔Bukowski, Elizabeth. ("Lucinda Williams" ) ''Salon''. Retrieved on January 11, 2000.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucinda Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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