Lucinda Williams Covers Lou Reed, Announces New Album at NYC Concert — billboard.com

When Lucinda Williams hit the stage at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre on Monday night, it felt like the perfect NYC venue choice for her. Much like the movie palace-turned-concert venue, the alt-country singer-songwriter has always been an artist out of step with her era, and she's much more fascinating for it. After all, there aren't many country artists who hit the stage and talk about writing songs inspired by Flannery O'Connor, cover the Velvet Underground in their encore and rock out as hard as Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Over the course of her extensive career (which continues to yield an astonishingly reliable body of work), Williams has never fit into any of the dominant trends in country or folk music.

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