Lucinda Williams Recalls A Legendary New Orleans Eatery Was One Of Her Favorite High School Hangouts

On the latest episode of Southern Living’s podcast, ‘Biscuits & Jam’, the Grammy winner talks about some of her earliest memories of growing up in the South.

Lucinda Williams is a three-time Grammy award winner and a living music legend. TIME once named her, “America’s Best Songwriter.” That impeccable talent for telling beautifully woven stories in her song lyrics can be traced back to her childhood and is deeply entwined in her own Southern roots, as she recently explained to Southern Living’s Editor in Chief, Sid Evans, on an episode of the podcast Biscuits & Jam.

Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, but she moved several times throughout her childhood for her father’s career as a poetry and literature professor at a number of different universities. As she described it, “I was like, instead of a military brat, a professor brat or academic brat, I guess.”

The Williams family moved over a dozen times in her early years and as she said, her dad “would teach just for a year or two at each school until he achieved tenure at the University of Arkansas. So until the University of Arkansas, he would be at a college for a year or two.”

One of those stops was in New Orleans during her teen years and she wrote about it in her new memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Evans asks her about a legendary New Orleans eatery she mentions in the book, Buster Holmes' Bar and Restaurant.

“Yeah, Buster Holmes, he was considered the king of red beans and rice, and my friends and I, when I was in high school in New Orleans, we would go there after school a lotta times, down in the Quarter, and there was a little window. You'd walk up to the window and they would slide open the little screen on the window and you'd order. It was only 25 cents. You could get a plate of red beans and rice with french bread on the side. [A] huge big plate of it. And we'd get those and we would have that, I think we just sat on the sidewalk and ate it or something, and it was really good,” she said with a laugh.

Evans pointed out that many a music legend have paid a visit to Buster’s, and Williams said back then she didn’t realize that. It was just her local hangout.

“It's just this little neighborhood place, you know? I mean, I don't even remember it as a restaurant, necessarily, ‘cause they didn't have tables and chairs there or anything. The way I remember anyway was just one of those kinda, you know, go up to the window, like a takeout sorta place.”

Evans and Williams discuss many more stories from her new book as well as her new album, Stories from a Rock and Roll Heart. Listen to the full episode of Biscuits & Jam below.

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