Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
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Lucinda Williams. (2023). Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Lucinda Williams. 2023. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir. Books on Tape.

Lucinda Williams, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir. Books on Tape, 2023.

Lucinda Williams. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2023.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).
 
“[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you.”—Vogue
A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions.
In Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her music—from performing for family friends in her living room to singing at local high schools and colleges in Mexico City, to recording her first album with Folkway Records and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with “poets on motorcycles” and the gothic southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Williams spent years working at health food stores and record stores during the day so she could play her music at night, and faced record companies who told her that her music was not “finished,” that it was “too country for rock and too rock for country.”  But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won success that spans seventeen Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of our time.
Raw, intimate, and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.

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     June 10, 2024
     

     Award-winning singer and songwriter Williams is ready to tell her secrets. Renowned for her determination to defy expectations, Williams has made a career of bending and blending musical genres. In this honest, inspiring memoir, she explores the people and places that influenced that career. From her childhood, facing her mother's alcoholism and diagnosis of manic depression, to her later-in-life musical renaissance with Rough Trade Records, Williams has demonstrated an ardent unwillingness to compromise her ideals. Narrated by the author, some parts of the listening experience take on a candid, conversational air, while others are a bit flat, lacking the flair that one might expect with Williams's engaging stories of stardom. Listeners may be surprised to find that Williams's speaking voice does not match the emotive expression in her singing. Though a professional narrator may have added pizzazz and given a more polished performance, Williams's no-frills nonchalance adds edgy authenticity to the narrative, especially when she reads her stirring song lyrics with her signature Southern drawl. VERDICT This audio will appeal to listeners seeking a raw rock-and-roll memoir. Recommended for fans of arts and entertainers' stories that include their coping with trauma and landing triumphs.--Lauren Hackert

     Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).
 
“[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you.”—Vogue
A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of...

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