- Ranked #97 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll in 1999.
- Ranked #36 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.
- Named "America's best songwriter" by Time magazine in 2002.
- Ranked #91 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time in 2017.
- Ranked #79 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015.
- Received the Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctorate of Music Degree in 2017.
- Suffered a stroke in November 2020.
- Mother spent years in and out of mental institutions.
- Husband Tom Overby is her business manager.
- Has two younger siblings.
- Father Miller Williams was a poet and college professor.
- Published her autobiography "Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You" in April 2023 (Crown Publishing).
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