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You know how it goes. You bring your new spouse to your parents' hometown. You're feeling happy, you want to make a good impression. And, if you're Lucinda Williams, the avatar of Americana music, that means you get roped into playing an unplanned solo gig -- with a Gibson borrowed from a local Guitar Center.

Thirty-some years into her celebrated Grammy-winning career, Williams rediscovered the joys of singing alone last fall on a visit to her professor father in Fayetteville, Ark., when she ended up playing two nights at a little joint called George's Majestic Lounge.

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