When I saw this book as an upcoming release a few weeks ago, I immediately threw it in my Amazon Wishlist (I use it to keep track of books I want to read). I do have a few of her songs on my iPhone playlist. One of them is called Are You Alright, and one day a long time ago, I was driving, and the road was slick due to rain and the car in front of me stopped at a green light. I ended up sliding and facing the wrong way on the other side of the street, and guess what song came on just then? Yes, it was indeed, Are You Alright! I was like, yes Lucinda, I am OK!
I didn’t realize that she didn’t hit it big time till her 40’s; it shows that her tenacity to keep on playing despite no record contracts paid off. A lot of people helped her along the way.
I also didn’t know anything about her family; like her father was a poet and a writer, and her paternal grandfather was a minister. You can kind of see from that where she gets her songwriting influence from.
Unlike a lot of the books I have read this year, where the person telling the story has been raised by their mother, Lucinda was raised by her father as her mother was in the picture, but had a lot of mental health issues.
