Lucinda Williams at Strings!

Music has gotten three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams through her darkest days. It’s been that way since growing up amid family chaos in the Deep South, as she recounts in her candid new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. As she promises on the final track of Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart—one of the best albums of her career—Lucinda Williams is “never gonna fade away.”