Lucinda Williams’s built a body of work that thrives on autobiography and the confessional, fearless vignettes of broken love affairs and men going off the rails. But as she explained in her 2023 memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, she comes from a family who “understood and taught me the power of language and music to create a more just world”. Williams may be bloodied but she’s unbowed: if anything, she’s as mad as hell and she aint’ going to take it anymore.
There’s an air of apocalypse, of last things about World Gone Wrong, the same cocktail of impending doom, rock ‘n roll swagger and gospel intensity that infuses the Stones’ Gimme Shelter. We are in the hour of darkness from the opening title track, a companion piece to…

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