Three years after her last triumphant performance at Celtic Connections, Lucinda Williams made a welcome return to Glasgow to celebrate her new album ‘World’s Gone Wrong’. As a younger artist she was always known for taking her time between albums but since her stroke in 2020 she has become hugely prolific – releasing two albums of originals and her various ‘Jukebox’ series of cover albums, alongside a packed touring schedule. On stage she remains a powerful, potent voice, one whose message of peace and love was rapturously received by a packed crowd of fans.

‘I can still sing,’ Lucinda Williams said on stage during her show on Monday night, a defiant reminder that despite a stroke she still has her voice. As a singer and lyricist she’s always turned the broken and fragile parts of her life into songs, and they felt even more vital and powerful after all she’s been through to get back on tour again.