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Lucinda Williams brings alt-country essence to Missoula
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UNIVERSITY RELATIONS • MISSOULA, MT 59812 • 406-243-2522 • FAX: 406-243-4520
March 26, 2002
Contact: Tom Webster, director, University Theatre Productions, (406) 243-2853.
LUCINDA WILLIAMS BRINGS ALT-COUNTRY ESSENCE TO MISSOULA
MISSOULA—
The woman Time magazine recently named "America’s Best Songwriter" will perform live in concert at The University of Montana this spring.
Lucinda Williams takes to the stage of the University Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday, April
8. Tickets are $25 in advance at all Tic-It-E-Z outlets or by calling (888) MONTANA.
Singer-songwriter Williams has earned two Grammy Awards: one in 1998 for best contemporary folk album — "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" — and one in February for best female rock vocalist on the song "Get Right With God."
Critics have called her newest album, "Essence," a masterpiece for its raw emotional intimacy and boundary-expanding sound. Filled with songs of love and longing, "Essence" leaps out of the alt-country category and into uncharted territory.
Salon magazine wrote, “Where her instinctive synthesis has consistently defied categorization — finding a common denominator among blues, country, folk and rock, while falling through the cracks between them — her sound here is off the roots-rock map.”
Bom in Lake Charles, La., to renowned poet Miller Williams and a talented pianist mother, Lucinda developed a passion for music and words at an early age. A well-traveled
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Los Angeles Magazine wrote, “With only six albums out in a career that spans 22 years,
Williams has never particularly labored to keep the industry's International Harvester stoked with fresh product. There are careful craftswomen, and then there is Williams: a singer who scraps whole sessions, whole years of work, when she feels the music isn't right. With her, getting things right is a faintly discomforting obsession.”
It’s an obsession that has paid off in critical acclaim, a devoted fan base and the admiration of fellow musicians.
“Lucinda Williams is a righteous singer,” said legendary singer-songwriter Emmylou
Harris. “The sound of her voice is so overwhelming and so moving that she could sing the phone book and probably give it meaning." m
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