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Grammy winning alt-country queen Lucinda Williams plays the Music Box Supper Club on Friday, Nov. 21.

(Courtesy of Lucinda Williams)

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Lucinda Williams, part of the royalty in alt-country, will be at the Music Box Supper Club for a full band show on Friday, Nov. 21.

Williams wrote Mary Chapin Carpenter's Grammy-winning "Passionate Kisses'' and has a pair of Grammys of her own – best contemporary folk album for 1999's "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'' and best female rock vocal for 2002's "Get Right With God.''

Her newest album, a two-discer called "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone,'' is vintage Williams, full of heartbreak and passion, delivered in her inimitable smoky voice. Some reviewers are calling it her best, which is saying something for the woman who has always been a darling among critics, but hasn't done so well commercially.

That's too bad because Williams is that tired cliché – a national treasure. Her ability to wrench emotion out of a single syllable is untouched by any in the music world.

Alabama's Kenneth Brian Band opens.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show, $58 in advance and $65 day of show, go on sale for Music Box VIP members at 10 a.m. Monday, and to the general public at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the box office, online at musicboxcle.com and by phone at 216-242-1250.