Lucinda Williams

Three-time GRAMMY award-winner, Lucinda Williams has been carving her own path for more than three decades now. Williams has been imbued with a ‘culturally rich, economically poor’ worldview. The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like West (2007), which All Music Guide called ‘flawless…destined to become a classic’ and Blessed (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed ‘a dynamic, human album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.’ Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness but also exuded more rays of light and hope. 2020’s Good Soul Better Angels was a socio-political masterpiece, garnering two GRAMMY nominations as well as features in The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Times. Opening the show is Ben de la Cour, whose music occupies the intersection between gothic Americana and dark, gritty folk—a sound fuelled by a lifelong searcher who's never been afraid to shine a light on his own demons. Barbican Hall at Barbican Centre