Lucinda Williams is an American singer-songwriter. She won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song with the song Passionate Kisses and another Grammy for the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, as best folk album. In his musical style, blues, folk, southern rock and country influences converge, and his characteristically rough and expressive voice is suited to both more rock-oriented compositions and songs from the American folk tradition. The daughter of a literature professor, Miller Williams, a poet and amateur pianist, and a musician, when her parents divorced in the mid-1960s, she was placed in the care of her mother. Her father moved for work to Mexico and various southern US states, in particular Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah and Georgia before being employed at the University of Arkansas. Lucinda began writing when she was six years old, started playing guitar at twelve and gave her first live performance in Mexico City at seventeen, as part of a duo with her banjo-playing friend Clark Jones. Residing in Austin, Texas, he made his debut in 1979 with the album Ramblin' on My Mind composed of covers of traditional country and blues songs. The following year saw the release of his second work Happy Woman Blues. In 1988, after a long wait, he released his third record, Lucinda Williamscontaining the song Passionate Kisses, a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter that earned Lucinda the first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. The singer waited until 1992 to record a new album, Sweet Old Worldand six more for what was his most successful album, Car Wheels on a Gravel RoadA more varied work than its predecessors, in which blues, country and traditional American sounds are present alongside typical rock and roll rhythms, all arranged in an original and commercially appealing style. Awarded a gold disc, the album earned her another Grammy award for Best Folk Album. It contains the single Still I Long for Your Kissincluded in the soundtrack of the Robert Redford film The horse whisperer. The following year, he participated in the Bridge School Benefit. At the same time, he was part of the band that accompanied Bob Dylan on tour, who then collaborated on a re-recording of Car Wheels on a Gravel Road with three additional tracks recorded in the studio and a second album containing recordings of a 1998 concert, a production released in 2006. With Dylan himself and other artists, he curated a project to recover the musical repertoire of his namesake Hank Williams. In the following years, he released other works without achieving the same peak of success. Released in 2001 Essencetwo years later World Without Tears. 2006 saw his first live album Live @ The Fillmore. In 2007 he published West featuring the collaboration of Bill Frisell. In 2008 they released Little Honey and the mini live album Lu in '8. After another three years, a double Blessedwhich has a strong roots rock feel and represents a return to the roots of the American musical tradition. In 2014, another double album was released Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone and inaugurates its own label with the deluxe edition double-CD reissue of the eponymous 1988 album. Two years later, he published a new work on his own label The Ghosts of Highway 20also a double. In 2017, This Sweet Old Worldunabridged re-recording of the 1992 album Sweet Old World . In 2020 it will publish Good Souls Better Angels, an album with a strong blues and hard blues feel.