Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams Crown, 272 pp., $28.99 " Did an angel whisper in your ear?/ And hold you close and take away your fear? " Lucinda Williams wrote those words about foundational Chronicle music scribe Margaret Moser, who sat with the singer's ex Clyde Woodward during his " long last moments ," listening to his favorite songs. (Revisit "Going Back to 'Lake Charles,'" Oct. 23, 1998, for the mixtape). In her memoir, Williams links the lines straight to the hospital scene with an unflinching, matter-of-fact style, no embellishment needed.

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