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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Andrew Stafford

Lucinda Williams: ‘My singing is better now than it was before my stroke’

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams
‘The weirdest thing I’ve done for love? I got married on stage [to Tom]’: singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. Photograph: /Danny Clinch

You’ve played many prestigious venues in your career. How do you feel about gracing the Sydney Opera House stage?

It’s on a lot of people’s bucket list, so I’m very excited. I’ve been doing this show [Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets, based on Williams’ memoir] at different venues. When I play, I always tell a little story about each song anyway, but this is where I stretch out and go more into detail, and I’ve got a visual screen behind me showing photographs of some of the characters I refer to in the songs. It’s similar to Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show.

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