This is going to be so amazing. It would be so cool if Prince did something like this. Check it..

Grammy-Award Winner Lucinda Williams
to Play Unprecedented 5-Night Stand
in Los Angeles and New York Featuring One Entire Album Each Night

LUCINDA WILLIAMS (1988)
SWEET OLD WORLD (1990)
CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD (1998)
ESSENCE (2001)
WORLD WITHOUT TEARS (2003)

to be Played Followed by Second Set

Lost Highway recording artist, and three-time Grammy Award-winner, Lucinda Williams has announced an unprecedented five-night run of small venues shows in New York City and Los Angeles in September and early October. Williams will perform five of her eight critically-acclaimed albums [LUCINDA WILLIAMS (1988), SWEET OLD WORLD (1990), CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD (1998), ESSENCE (2001) and WORLD WITHOUT TEARS (2003)] in their entirety, one album per night.

Following each album performance, Williams and her band (guitarist Doug Pettibone, bassist David Sutton and drummer Butch Norton) will play a second set of material from her 2007 heavily-praised album WEST along with songs from throughout her career, plus some special surprises.

Williams will be performing at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on September 5, 6, 8, 9 & 10.

After selling out New York's Radio City Music Hall in March, Williams will return to the Big Apple to play the first two shows at Irving Plaza on September 29 & 30, followed by three shows at Manhattan's Town Hall on October 2, 3 & 4.

Williams will be performing the albums in reverse chronological order, beginning with 2003's WORLD WITHOUT TEARS on the first night and ending with 1988's LUCINDA WILLIAMS on the final evening on each coast.

WEST, Williams' current album, was released in February on Lost Highway, and garnered some of the highest praise of her career. People called it " ... the first great CD of 2007" and gave it "four stars" out of four. Rolling Stone gave it "four stars" and Entertainment Weekly gave it an "A".

++Tickets for all Los Angeles shows at the El Rey are $35 and will go on
sale on Saturday, July 21 at 10am PST.

++ Tickets for the New York City shows on September 29 & 30 at Irving
Plaza are $50. Tickets for the October 2, 3 & 4 shows at Town Hall are
$65 and $45. NYC tickets will go one sale on July 21 at 1pm EDT. All tickets will be available through Ticketmaster and tickermaster.com .

when are the LA shows?!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Sept..5,6,8,9,10 at El Rey

$35 bucks a night or $140.00 for 5 night pass..

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[Edited 7/27/07 12:11pm]

To me it seems that between LOST HIGHWAY and the starbucks label, and Blue note (to a degree) they are the only one that support the older artists, or artists that write and play, and may not be big sellers.

lastdecember said:

Totally agree...Lost Highway was made for that very reason...left of center artists who play real music, may not fit in one category and no pressure from execs to sell millions...the result is some of this decades best music.

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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

You tell me which nights you're going and I will be there!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'm thinkin 'Car Wheels' night and 'Lucinda Williams' night. I'd love to do all 5 nights but I'm just not sure..I'll let you know! My brother and his BFF are coming from AZ for this!

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Her latest CD really sucks. I'm thinking she's going through a dry phase or is on her way out.

Wowugotit said:

Wow, I couldn't disagree more! West is stunning as far as I'm concerned