Named by VH1 as one of the greatest women of rock and roll, three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams is returning to Ponte Vedra Beach Jan. 26 to perform at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall.
The country-Americana musician is set to perform with her band, Her Band Buick 6, with guest Jesse Malin at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7.
Williams is known for her 1988 song, “Passionate Kisses,” off of her self-titled album. The song was covered by Mary Chapin Carpenter four years later in 1992 and went on to win the Grammy Award for best country song of the year.
Along with, ‘Passionate Kisses,’ Williams said she and her band like to “mix things up” and perform songs from as many different albums as possible, even some favorite covers.
“Most of the stuff I do are my own songs,” she said in a phone interview. “But towards the end, I like to do a cover of The Allman Brothers Band’s song, ‘It’s Not My Cross to Bear.’ Sometimes we’ll do Neil Young’s ‘Rockin’ in the Free World.’”
But what personalizes each show most doesn’t come from the band, but from the fans, she said. “My manager, Tom Overby, always looks on my Facebook fan page and sees what songs people requested and we try to do them all.”
Williams and her band have played together for years but are just now being noticed as an “Americana” band, a genre that didn’t exist when her career began.
She said the root of her music comes from blues, country, rock and a little Southern rock.
“I remember I was doing a show somewhere in Florida,” she reminisced. “And this woman comes up to me and says, ‘I love your music. I don’t like country music usually, but I like your music.’
“I have a large fan-base, but you don’t hear me on the radio,” Williams said. “It seems like it’s (the radio) squeezed down to pop, hip-hop or commercial pop country. You’d have to listen to SiriusXM or college radio stations to find me.”
But this weekend, she can be found in Ponte Vedra Beach— in person and in action. She’s ready to lock down Ponte Vedra Beach and remind the town that there’s more to music than FM radio.
“We’ll give people their money’s worth,” she said.
For more information, visit www.PVConcertHall.com.
