Core News — “Iggy continues in the Friday night Confidential slot after a brief touring break with tracks by by Hinds, Lucinda Williams, Fat White Family and Link Wray. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spirit sin... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Minnesota Public Radio interviewed author Helen Macdonald. Lucinda Williams visited World Cafe for an interview and live performance. Amelia Gray interviewed author Catherine Lacey at The Towner. Salon interviewed singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. The R... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Is there ever a point in your life where it’s in some way easier to lose someone? Does getting to spend a little more time with them – well into and past their expected life span – somehow ease that pain, or does it make it all the sharper? Doe... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Read new short fiction by Don DeLillo at the New Yorker. Stream Blind Willie Johnson covers by Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams. Stream a new Melvins song. Guernica interviewed author John D'Agata. Aquarium Drunkard shared a Lunar New Year Chinese... more info

Stereogum — Lucinda Williams just announced that she will release her twelfth album, The Ghosts Of Highway 20, in February of 2016. American Songwriter reports that it’s a concept record inspired by Williams’ experiences traveling between Texas and Georgia a... more info

Stereogum — Both Crutchfield sisters are big fans of Lucinda Williams, an affinity that only makes too much sense. Allison covered the folk songwriter’s track “Something About What Happens When We Talk” with Radiator Hospital’s Sam Cook-Parrott earlier t... more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - A is for "Ain't Misbehavin'", a jazz classic partly written by a Madagascan royal; G is for "Greenville", a Lucinda Williams country putdown redolent of 20th-century Russian Acmeist poetry. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Jason Isbell, "Something More Than Free" (Southeastern Records). Amid the digitization of our musical past and present, it's easy enough to find honest rural voices. Browse, drag, drop and within moments the collected work of Townes Van Zandt, Lynyrd... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako The free Celebrate Brooklyn! shows in Prospect Park continued last night (6/25) with alt-country veteran Lucinda Williams. Lucinda's got records dating back over thirty years, and she gave us some classics, but she's also stil... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Desaparecidos @ Webster Hall, 2013 (more by Tracy Alison) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Desaparecidos, The So So Glos @ Shea Stadium Conor Oberst put out his... more info