American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Gayl Williams is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, Ramblin' on My Mind (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980), in a traditional country and blues style that received critical praise but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her third album, Lucinda Williams, to widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also featured "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter for her 1992 album Come On Come On, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994.

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1953

January 26

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1953 Born

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1564 The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
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The world in 1953

When Lucinda arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor

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