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THE BLACK LILLIES // WES URBANIAK AND THE MOUNTAIN FOLK
Presented By The Winnebago
Saturday, October 5th at 8:00pm CST
Online sale ends: 10/05/19 at 12:00am CST
The Winnebago
2262 Winnebago Street
Madison, WI 53704
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THE BLACK LILLIES - Four men. Four friends. Four artists, each of whom could rightly put out a solo record tomorrow, tied together by a bond to something that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

The Black Lillies were conceived during a particularly emotional period in Contreras’ life. A divorce, a disassembling of his old band and a 9-to-5 job driving a truck left him with days of turbulent thoughts and nights alternating between pen-and-paper and a guitar to put them into some semblance of order. “Whiskey Angel,” released in 2009, was a springboard to a whirlwind career revival, and within two years, the band had notched several national tours, landed on the hot list of countless publications and appeared everywhere from the Grand Ole Opry stage to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Other records — “100 Miles of Wreckage,” “Runaway Freeway Blues,” “Hard to Please” — helped define a sound that was rooted in distinct male-female harmonies, intricate instrumentalism and emotionally charged lyrics that look toward the hope of a new day dawning, regardless of the darkness of broken hearts and bereft spirits.

Around the making of “Hard to Please,” however, the band faced its biggest challenge to date — losing key members, integrating new ones and facing a future that meant changing musical directions. Contreras, however, rose to the challenge, drawing inspiration from some of the titans of the genre in which the Lillies often find themselves categorized: The Eagles and Wilco, just to name a few.


WES URBANIAK AND THE MOUNTAIN FOLK - Wes Urbaniak’s experimental expressionism puts fire to the gasoline structure of folk music. Mountain Folk emulsifies the genre expressions into their more creative forms, implementing tempo fusions and thumps so tight that they snap. The bluegrass and beatboxing stir oh-so-well into the mix, and when that beautiful stomp comes on, it’s hard not to put those hands and feet to work. The lyrics tell the quilting of life lived, lessons learned, humility sought, and understanding earned through the processes of becoming a steady and thoughtful man.  Urbaniak works the range on the acoustic guitar, often times playing both rhythm and melodic lead, while singing and putting it down on the stomp plate. Stringed talent in the form of Mat Regele on upright bass develops the dynamic and the melodic themes for the stories.

This year, they are touring across the county to share the music from Urbaniak’s eighth and ninth albums while plugging the setlist with favorite songs from the previous albums and new, unreleased material.   They play on custom Montana-made instruments from Urbaniak’s shop. 


Items Not Allowed
Weapons (or) Violence (nor) Hate: racism, bigotry, homophobia, sexual harassment

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8:00pm to 11:45pm
Doors open at 7:00pm

General Admission: $12.00

Age
All Ages

The Winnebago<br> 2262 Winnebago Street<br> Madison, 53704

(608) 640-4380

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