From hearing her song turn up in a porno to biting Ryan Adams (twice), the things we learned from Lucinda Williams’ new memoir.
A pot bust came back to haunt her 40 years later at the Canadian border.
In 1972, Lucinda relocated to Nashville after auditioning to be a performer at the now-defunct theme park, Opryland USA. During a pot bust at the Acklen Ave. house, near fabled Music Row, where she was living with fellow musicians, Lucinda was arrested and spent the night in jail with . Among the musicians who helped raise bail for them was Rodney Crowell. In 2012, Lucinda was nearly denied entrance into Canada, a country she’d performed in several times already, when the bust showed up on her record.During her time in New York City, Williams befriended Mike Porco, the owner of the club Gerde’s Folk City, who introduced her to one of her heroes: Bob Dylan.
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