Lucinda Williams

In the late seventies, I fell in love with the poet Frank Stanford. His suicide would leave an indelible mark on my music.

Joining Nino Rota, Harold Arlen, and Kurt Weill, Marc Bolan is the latest artist to be enshrined by the record producer, who died of COVID-19 in April.

From a studio in Nashville, the two country musicians talk about protest songs, how compassion feeds creativity, and why artists should never read the comments.