Grammy Winner Lucinda Williams Coming To Palatine

and Kickstand Productions are pleased to announce the performance of three-time Grammy award winning artist, and modern-icon, Lucinda Williams at Durty Nellie’s on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 day of show for this 21 and older event (minors are allowed when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian).

Lucinda’s accolades include; 14 Grammy nominations, a lifetime achievement award by the Americana Music Association (2011) as well as the honor of being named ‘America’s Best Songwriter’ by TIME Magazine (2002). Her current album, ‘Blessed’ debuted at #15 on the Billboard 200 charts.

“I didn’t have a fully realized picture of what I wanted the album to sound like going in, but I hardly ever do,” Williams stated in a press release from Kickstand Productions. “Back when I was playing open mic nights by myself, I’d be sitting up there with my Martin guitar and doing ‘Angel’ by Jimi Hendrix or ‘Politician’ by Cream’ alongside Robert Johnson and Memphis Minnie songs. It never occurred to me to pick just one style. That’s stayed with me ever since.”

Williams never has hesitated to wave that flag of iconoclasm, but she’s never used it as a shield. Ever since the release of her 1978 debut Ramblin’ on My Mind (recorded on the fly with a mere $250 budget behind her), the Louisiana- bred singer-songwriter has been ready, willing and able to call upon both her natural affinity for roots music and her familial literary tradition. She learned the importance of professional integrity around the same time most kids are learning their ABCs, thanks in large part to her award-winning poet father Miller Williams – who invested her with a “culturally rich, but economically poor” upbringing where artistic expression was of primary importance.

“Thanks to my dad, I grew up around poets and novelists and they all had families and normal lives and most of them didn’t achieve even nominal success until much later in life,” she stated. “I have to keep reminding people that, yeah, I’m a musician, but first and foremost, I’m an artist and art is about expression, about expressing your feelings about what you’re going through every day. I think this is the closest I’ve come to capturing that essence completely as an artist.”

Williams never settled for any sort of pigeonholing, entering the 1990s with the rich, sepia-toned Sweet Old World – a disc that, as much as any release, helped place the Americana movement at the forefront of listeners’ minds – and cementing her own spot in the cultural lexicon with 1998’s raw, immediate masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. The latter disc earned Williams her first Grammy Award as a performer (she’d also scored one as a writer thanks to Mary-Chapin Carpenter’s version of her “Passionate Kisses”), but rather than try to capture the same lightning in a bottle a second time, she stretched her boundaries on 2001’s Essence, an album rife with both cerebral interludes and soul-stirring stomps.

In recent times, Williams has shown herself to be the kind of artist who’ll never back down from a challenge, whether collaborating with surprisingly kindred spirits such as M. Ward and Flogging Molly or putting her own spin on iconic tunes like Bob Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street” and Jimmy Webb’s classic “Galveston”. She’s taken that same approach to her most recent recordings as a solo artist as well: The 2006 release West and 2008’s buoyant Little Honey - an album Paste hailed as “an album that brims with varied, impeccable writing” - made for an ethereal emotional travelogue that takes in both great loss and the sort of discovery one can only make when emotional barriers are taken down.

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Don't miss this amazing opportunity to see Lucinda William, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 at 8 p.m. at Durty Nellie’s. For information regarding advance tickets or for all other inquiries visit our website at www.kickstandproductions.net / www.durtynellies.com or call Durty Nellies at (847) 358-9150.

Information submitted by Kickstand Productions.