How a Scorpio took Lucinda Williams’ ‘Joy’ and more stories from her catalog

On World Cafe’s Backtracking series, we ask artists to look back at their discography, pick some tracks from throughout their career, and tell us the stories behind them.

In today’s session, Americana legend Lucinda Williams sits down to talk about the song that takes her back to childhood and the one that she still loves performing.

“I always wanted to be able to write songs for myself, but also that other people, really everybody, could respond to,” she says.

Plus, Williams talks about her new album, World’s Gone Wrong.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod.  Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. World Cafe‘s engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.