Lilly Hiatt wrote her first song when she was just nine years old. It was about a weeping willow tree. She still remembers the words and melody. “I’ve always loved the way the willow trees looked and found comfort being around them,” she said over the telephone from her Tennessee home. “They grow near water,… The post Lilly Hiatt: Music That Looks Back While Forging Ahead first appeared on Iowa Source.