On the eve of AmericanaFest in Nashville, Lucinda Williams was celebrated at BMI’s headquarters as the recipient of the performing rights organization’s annual Troubadour Award, where a…
Other artists saluted Williams via taped congratulations, like Robert Plant and Dwight Yoakam, who called giving Williams the lifetime achievement award “long overdue.” Maybe it wasn’t that long overdue: Williams is only the fourth artist to get the Troubadour honor since it was instituted in 2017, following in the footsteps of John Prine, John Hiatt and Robert Earl Keen.
2022 BMI Troubadour Awards honoring Lucinda Williams takes place on September 12, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Williams, who was helped to the stage but appeared healthy as she continues to recover from a 2020 stroke, had plenty of appreciative words, starting off with effusive praise for her publicist, Jim Flammia — now there’s a rarity in an acceptance speech — but reserving the most for her current label, Thirty Tigers.
Said Elizabeth Cook, in the same video presentation, “She gave me permission to just feel exactly how I wanted to feel and say what I wanted to say and look how I wanted to look doing it. And to see her have success for that makes it feel not so selfish… and probably got me in trouble with Music Row a lot more. But, you know, thank God.” Later, Cook got anecdotal about other things she picked up from Williams: “She told me to wear glitter nail polish.
The most passionate speech came from Bill Bentley, the Austin-cum-L.A. music journalist and former Warner Bros. staffer. He spoke about discovering Williams busking in Austin in 1974 while he was writing for a local alternative paper, and writing and publishing an entire article that only referred to her by her first name, because he’d failed to ask her her last. “Doggone it, man, I wish I’d said hello more back on the drag back in 1974,” he said.
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