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Lucinda Williams was named America's best songwriter by Time, and though plenty of people would disagree, few would dismiss the assertion out of hand. Beginning with a couple of albums of straight Texas blues in the late 1970s, Lucinda has built an unparalleled catalogue of great songs over a career now in its fourth decade. She's done searing rock confessionals, put herself out there with introspective folk to match the best of them, hit the common denominator of commercial country with "Passionate Kisses" and some terrific storytelling songs, delved into R&B and gospel, made straight blues that bears comparison with Janis Joplin—and she was really Americana before there was such a category. Her music has been called "Gothic," and "darkly damaged," but there's a cathartic confessional quality to it that in the end is deeply positive and inspiring. Lucinda comes to Michigan with an acclaimed new release, "The Ghosts of Highway 20," of which she says, "It is literally a map of my life in a lot of ways. We were driving between shows and between cities, and I kept seeing things that brought me back to times and places in my past. Like when we played in Macon, Georgia, a place I lived when I was five or six years old, I got out of the bus and I was transported back to when I saw this street singer, Blind Pearly Brown. It was like nothing had changed. All these things started percolating in my brain, and the songs just came.” Delta blues trio Buick 6 is special guest.