Happy Woman Blues is the second studio album by Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1980. While her debut album consisted entirely of cover recordings, all of Happy Woman Blues was written by Williams herself.

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Happy Woman Blues an "A–" and called Williams a "guileless throwback to the days of the acoustic blues mamas" who "means what she says and says what she means". In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Kurt Wolff gave it four out of five stars and said "King of Hearts", "Sharp Cutting Wings", and "Lafayette" are well composed, emotionally powerful "classics" on an album that was bold, refreshing, and "stunning for its mixture of blues, folk, and country traditions with [Williams'] captivating, complex, and visceral approach to writing and singing".Trouser Press felt the record was more "rock-oriented" than Williams' debut album, writing that she used timeworn ideas such as "smoke-stained bars, open roads and a heart that never learns" but reimagined them "in a way that is both contemporary and uncynical".

(All songs by Lucinda Williams)

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