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This chapter explores the song art and sensibilities of Lucinda Williams, at one time declared “America’s best songwriter” by Time magazine (2001) and the only singer-songwriter in this study to have met O’Connor personally, as a young child. Williams was raised in the shadow of hellfire southern Bible Beltism and has been fascinated with forms of religious extremism, as exemplified in her songs “Atonement” and the Grammy-winning “Get Right with God.” She has compared her darkly redemptive songs to O’Connor’s short fictions, is on record stating Wise Blood is her favorite novel, and widely acknowledges O’Connor as “a major influence on her songwriting.” This chapter explores thematics of childhood trauma, suffering and death, and bedevilment in Williams’s songs that draw substance and sense from O’Connor’s story art or point in the same direction.
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This chapter explores the song art and sensibilities of Lucinda Williams, at one time declared “America’s best songwriter” by Time magazine (2001) and the only singer-songwriter in this study to have met O’Connor personally, as a young child.
Williams was raised in the shadow of hellfire southern Bible Beltism and has been fascinated with forms of religious extremism, as exemplified in her songs “Atonement” and the Grammy-winning “Get Right with God.
” She has compared her darkly redemptive songs to O’Connor’s short fictions, is on record stating Wise Blood is her favorite novel, and widely acknowledges O’Connor as “a major influence on her songwriting.
” This chapter explores thematics of childhood trauma, suffering and death, and bedevilment in Williams’s songs that draw substance and sense from O’Connor’s story art or point in the same direction.
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