US country star Lucinda Williams says Trump 'acting like a five-year-old' as she releases new album

In advance of her Dublin gig, Lucinda Williams talks about her new record and how it addresses some of the thorny issues facing her homeland at the moment 

Lucinda Williams plays in Dublin on Monday. Picture: Danny Clinch

Three-time Grammy winner Lucinda Williams sounded taken aback the last time we spoke, the line crackling from her Nashville home. She had unwittingly upset a number of Trump supporters with the Man Without a Soul tune, with its reference to a "man without truth, greed, envy" jabbing at the US president.

If anything, Williams has only pushed harder since. Her forthcoming World’s Gone Wrong album is even grittier, rawer and more direct in its confrontation with what has been happening in her homeland.