Lucinda Williams and her band & Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
Schedule
Sat Sep 28 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Arlington Theatre | Santa Barbara, CA
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Goldenvoice PresentsAlone & Together: Come Hell Or High Water
LUCINDA WILLIAMS AND HER BAND & MIKE CAMPBELL & THE DIRTY KNOBS
SAT, 28 SEP 2024 at 08:00PM PDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 10:00AM PDT
Announcement: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 10:00AM PDT
Three-time Grammy Award winner, Lucinda Williams has been carving her own path for more than three decades now. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Williams had been imbued with a “culturally rich, economically poor” worldview. Several years of playing the hardscrabble clubs gave her a solid enough footing to record a self-titled album that would become a touchstone for the embryonic Americana movement – helping launch a thousand musical ships along the way.
While not a huge commercial success at the time Lucinda Williams (aka, the Rough Trade album) retained a cult reputation, and finally got the reception it deserved upon its reissue in 2014. Jim Farber of New York’s Daily News hailed the reissue by saying “Listening again proves it to be that rarest of beasts: a perfect work. There’s not a chord, lyric, beat or inflection that doesn’t pull at the heart or make it soar.”
For much of the next decade, Williams moved around the country, stopping in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, and turning out work that won immense respect within the industry (winning a Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s version of “Passionate Kisses”) and a gradually growing cult audience. While her recorded output was sparse for a time, the work that emerged was invariably hailed for its indelible impressionism -- like 1998’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which notched her first Grammy as a performer.
The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like West (2007), which All Music Guide called “flawless…destined to become a classic” and Blessed (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed “a dynamic, human, album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.” Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness, but also exuded more rays of light and hope. This all lead to the 2014 release of Williams’ first double studio album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, followed by the 2016 release of her second double album, the The Ghosts of Highway 20. Both albums received overwhelming praise from the media and fans. 2020’s Good Soul Better Angels was a sociopolitical masterpiece, garnering two Grammy nominations as well as features in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times and so much more, Lucinda made a return appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was the subject of a feature segment on NPR’s All Things Considered.
In October of 2021, Lucinda Williams was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall Of Fame.
In April 2023, Williams released her long-awaited memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You (Crown, a division of Penguin Random House LLC), to wide critical acclaim. The memoir debuted at #5 on the New York Times Bestsellers and Williams was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Styles. Williams was featured at Vanity Fair, NPR All Things Considered, The Associated Press, Esquire, The Nation, and many more, including a sit down on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
In June 2023, Williams release the critically acclaimed album Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart (Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers), which received high praise from the press as she was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and the subject of major stories in Rolling Stone, Billboard, Paste, The FADER, SPIN and more. The Associated Press referred to the album as “another important chapter to one of the most important musical journeys of the last half-century.”
Mike Campbell was a member, architect and co-captain of the Heartbreakers, a band he co-founded with Tom Petty, whom he met in a Gainesville, Florida carport in 1972. The Heartbreakers lead guitarist, Campbell co-wrote many of the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers hits and also co-produced many of their albums – in addition to penning songs for Don Henley (“Boys of Summer”), Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and playing on records by Aretha Franklin, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. In 2018, Campbell joined Fleetwood Mac’s World Tour on lead guitar and in 2020, Campbell released Wreckless Abandon, the first album by The Dirty Knobs, a group that was Campbell’s longtime side project but is now his primary musical focus. They released their second LP External Combustion in 2022 and toured the USA, including runs opening for both Chris Stapleton and The Who. Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs’ new album Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits is out now on BMG featuring appearances from artists including Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and fellow Heartbreaker Benmont Tench. In additional to Campbell, The Dirty Knobs features fellow Heartbreaker Steve Ferrone on drums, Chris Holt (Don Henley) on guitar and Lance Morrison (Don Henley) on bass.
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Where is it happening?
Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2609, United States,Santa Barbara, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
