She’s faced abuse, depression – and now coronavirus has killed two of her friends. But the revered singer-songwriter is coming out swinging with her most political album yet
Lucinda Williams has been sleep-talking more than usual. One night last week, she dreamed that Mormons invaded her house, converted her friends and stole her possessions. That wasn’t the issue: “They were all sitting next to each other, and I said: ‘Don’t you understand, you’re supposed to be quarantined!’” Williams laughs, her laconic outlaw baritone spilling into a surprising giggle. Her husband and manager, Tom Overby, told her she had grown agitated in her sleep. She thinks it came from the nightly TV marathons that have become their new lockdown routine, staying up until 5am watching the Jewish drama Unorthodox, “only in my dream they came out as Mormons”.
Wiggy dreams are a quarantine staple, but Williams has had a lot to process lately. She and Overby only recently moved to Nashville and don’t yet have any furniture. No sooner had they arrived than a tornado hit the city, although not their neighbourhood. Then coronavirus killed two old friends: Hal Willner, who produced Williams’s 2007 album, West, and the country musician John Prine. She last saw Prine in November when she played his festival in the Dominican Republic. “It’s been insane,” she says in disbelief, calling from her home.
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