Lucinda Williams plans her comeback after a stroke: The main thing is I can still sing Still rehabbing, she can t play guitar but she can sing. May 4, 2021 8:13am Text size Copy shortlink:
The longtime Twin Cities favorite shared her story with rollingstone.com on Monday. I feel good and positive about playing again. We ve got some shows scheduled with Jason Isbell for late July and we re planning on doing those, Williams told Rolling Stone. I don t know if I ll stand up and sing or I ll sit down like an old blues person. But we ll figure it out.
Williams suffered the stroke in her Nashville home and spent five weeks rehabbing at a facility affiliated with Vanderbilt Medical Center before returning home.
Lucinda Williams suffered a stroke in November 2020,
Rolling Stone reports. Williams experienced a blood clot on the right side of her brain on November 17 that affected the left side of her body, and was rushed to Nashville’s Vanderbilt Medical Center. After a month of therapy at a Vanderbilt rehab center, she was discharged on December 21. Now six months into her recovery, Williams walks with a cane, is unable to play guitar, and continues to experience pain on her left side. Her husband Tom Overby said there were no signs of brain damage and that she is expected to make a full recovery.
Grammys 2021: The Country Music Winners
From Best Country Album to Best American Roots Performance, the complete country and Americana rundown
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Awards in the Americana and country music categories were handed out during the 63rd Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon with John Prine winning a pair of posthumous Grammys for his song “I Remember Everything.” Written with Pat McLaughlin, “I Remember Everything” was named Best American Roots Songs and Best American Roots Performance. It is the final song that Prine recorded before his death in April from complications related to Covid-19.
“The music community in Nashville and beyond, your love and encouragement has meant the world to us this past year,” Fiona Whelan Prine, the songwriter’s widow, said in a Zoom acceptance speech, flanked by her sons. “Merry Christmas,” offered Tommy Prine, a nod to his father’s yearlong love of the holiday.
2021 at WDIY kicked off with some new favorites and old classics on-air for our listeners. Check out the full list below to see which artists fought their way into 2021, which ones got left behind, and who the new faces are in our monthly line-up!
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Getting Into Knives is The Mountain Goats’ 19th studio album and was released on October 23, 2020. The album was recorded weeks before quarantine lockdown began in Memphis, and while the record doesn’t have a designated concept, it deals loosely with human achievement and personal fulfillment.
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Good Souls Better Angels by Lucinda Williams is also back in the ranks after disappearing from the top 10 after October 2020 and reappearing last month. She released her new album on April 24, 2020.
2020 brought with it plenty of ups and downs as well as some fantastic new music releases and some old classic discoveries. Before we jump into 2021 s music scene, let s take a look at what our WDIY listeners enjoyed the most on air from December 2020. Click through the covers to see who came out on top and scroll down to read details.
#1- Bruce Springsteen’s 12th studio album,
Letter to You, is yet again the most played album of the month on WDIY. Released on October 23, 2020,
Letter to You is Springsteen s first new studio album with his regular backing band, The E Street Band, since 2014 s