Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams is confronting “America’s socio-political chaos head-on” with her forthcoming album World’s Gone Wrong, which is out January 23rd, 2026 via Highway 20 Records.

World’s Gone Wrong is a set of songs that were “written and recorded with a sense of urgency” during the spring of 2025. The album opens with the title track, featuring Brittney Spencer, which “speaks to the plight of the working class during these turbulent times, and the resiliency to move forward .” A live performance video of the track is out now.

Throughout nine original tracks, Williams offers songs that “challenge us to rise above” our times. A timely cover of Bob Marley’s “So Much Trouble In The World” features a duet with Mavis Staples.

Other songs on World’s Gone Wrong serve “as a wake-up call and a battle cry.” The album was co-produced by Tom Overby and longtime Williams’ collaborator Ray Kennedy, who recorded and mixed the album at his Room & Board Studio in Nashville, TN.