Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle Team Up for “LSD Tour”
For those fans of classic Bakersfield-style country, excellent songwriting from alt-country Gods, unnatural illicit psychedelic substances and/or clever acronyms, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, and Steve Earle have banded together in a slightly-unintuitive, but nonetheless seductive lineup, and branded it the “LSD Tour,” which is only slightly less confusing than if it was called the LDS tour.
The LSD Tour will be a unique opportunity to see these three legends of (alt) country together for the first time. Yoakam is currently promoting the launch of his own SiriusXM channel, which should be going live soon, Lucinda Williams is promoting the release of the 25th Anniversary edition of her landmark album Sweet Old World, and Steve Earle is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his magnum opus, Copperhead Road. The Dukes will be joining Earle on the tour, and King Leg will be the opener on all dates.
The tour will span 18 total dates, including marquee stops at Red Rocks in Colorado, the Beacon Theatre in New York, and the Ascend Ampitheatre in Nashville. And who knows, maybe more dates will be added if everyone has a groovy time, and the Kool-Aid doesn’t run out. It’s kind of weird, but just go with the flow man, and don’t put anything sharp in your mouth.
Pre-sale tickets will start to become available on March 26th through various scams, and tickets will be made available to the average proletariat on March 30th via TicketBastard.
Have a safe trip.
June 12 – Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
June 13 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
June 15 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
June 16 – Gilford, NH – Bank of NH Pavilion
June 17 – National Harbor, MD – MGM National Harbor
June 19 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion
June 20 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
June 21 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
Aug. 1 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
Aug. 3 – San Diego, CA – Open Air Theatre
Aug. 4 – Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
Aug. 10 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
Aug. 11 – Charlotte, NC – Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Aug. 12- Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
Aug. 14 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Aug. 16 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
Aug. 17 – Rochester, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
Aug. 18 – Indianapolis, IN – Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn
March 22, 2018 @ 10:07 am
Bummer! No Atlanta/Georgia show!
March 26, 2018 @ 6:24 pm
And no Los Angeles show! Why do so many country acts skip LA?
July 23, 2018 @ 10:05 am
Atlanta is August 9 @ Chastain
March 22, 2018 @ 10:08 am
Maybe. I haven’t seen any of them in concert in ages. Earle in 08 was the latest.
March 22, 2018 @ 10:36 am
Philly never gets any love. I’d travel to NY or Baltimore for this line up!
March 22, 2018 @ 11:22 am
Any thoughts on King Leg? One of the more “interesting” vocal styles I’ve heard in a while for certain.
March 23, 2018 @ 4:11 am
King Leg is one weird quirky dude. Probably too weird for the purists that gather here but I think he’s onto something really good. The album has an almost Specter-esque production , particularly on Comfy Chair. His voice is insanely beautiful and he’s quite the dead ringer for Roy Orbison.Dwight discovered him and Co produced the record. I defy you to listen to Great Outdoors and not have it stuck in your brain all day! I wouldn’t say he’s country exactly, more a mix of Orbison, Petty, The Byrds and Bakersfield. Anyhow, he’s the opener for this tour and it makes sense.
March 23, 2018 @ 6:59 am
Reminds me most of Jimmie Dale Gilmore
March 22, 2018 @ 11:54 am
Pittsburgh?????????????
March 22, 2018 @ 12:19 pm
finally a real country music tour
March 22, 2018 @ 1:04 pm
Can’t ANYONE good ever come to Seattle anymore?
March 22, 2018 @ 1:04 pm
huh,. kinda near me if I wanna drive a bit.
I might not go see any of these guys alone… but together? I might
March 22, 2018 @ 1:44 pm
Fuzzy,
Not a fan of Dwight? I’d thought he’d be right up your alley.
March 22, 2018 @ 3:27 pm
If I’m in a Country Music mood I usually go all in. Don Walser Porter Wagoner Benny Martin Tom T. Hall Steve Holy etc.
Dwight Yoakam is in that weird awkward category of “Country-Lite” where also rests George Strait Paul Overstreet Jon Pardi, Oak Ridge Boys and Steve Wariner.
it’s not “un-Country” but it’s kind of tame, smooth, and not as gritty and edgy as I like.
Steve Wariner is probably my favorite of what I just described as “Country-lite” but it’s not too unreasonable to say that he’s a bit too polished, smooth, clean shaven compared to Waylon, Jones, Hank Thompson, etc.
so I like Dwight, but probably not enough to drive that far just to see him alone.
but for a show like this I’d make the drive.
March 22, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
dwight, “lite”? what. the. hell. Strait, ok, he’s a crooner with good taste. Walser, hardcore. Wagoner, you’re Nudienotized. Pardi et al, agreed. Look, Dwight’s inability to write well of women alone sets him apart from the “lite” crowd. Dwight isn’t Ralph Stanley heavy, but he’s a lot country heavier than those other fellas.
March 22, 2018 @ 8:35 pm
I think he needs to spin guitars, Cadillacs, etc, etc, a few times. If that album is “country lite”, I’ll kiss your ass. Although, I could do without his cover of ring of fire…..
March 23, 2018 @ 6:46 am
He is too cool for you!
March 23, 2018 @ 8:49 am
This will probably be the first and last time I ever see anyone compare Dwight with Steve Wariner.
March 23, 2018 @ 5:40 pm
FTS–
Sounds like you’ve been consuming serious “Lucinda Steve Dwight” (and I’m not referring to any artists) to be likening Dwight Yoakam to George Strait, Paul Overstreet, Jon Pardi, Oak Ridge Boys and Steve Wariner.
Those artists all have little to nothing in common–whether we’re talking sound, writing, attitude, or position in the market.
March 22, 2018 @ 1:42 pm
This is fortuitous! I just looked each of these artists up individually just a couple days ago to see if any of them are playing near me. I’m so grateful you posted this!!
March 22, 2018 @ 3:15 pm
Can you comment on Kacey Musgraves absolutely appalling new song “High Horse”?
March 22, 2018 @ 3:31 pm
May have something on this soon.
March 22, 2018 @ 4:52 pm
“High Horse” is a disco song. Drums are a half- inch away from disco.
March 22, 2018 @ 3:58 pm
No DFW date which is disappointing but what a gig this should be!
March 22, 2018 @ 9:21 pm
No Texas dates at all! Bummer! I’ve seen them all separately at festivals but this show would be mind bending.
March 22, 2018 @ 4:44 pm
I hear you guys complaining about some acts not stopping in_____( your town here )_____.
Up here on MARS ( Great White North ) we get NOBODY . I mean … Damn ….we’re nice folks and we like music . Can’t SOMEBODY not named Carrie come and sing to us once in a while ?
March 23, 2018 @ 4:34 am
Well, I just checked and there are nearly 400,000 people in Wichita, for example, and I think it would be highly possible for someone like Carrie to sell out their brand new 15,000 seat Intrust Arena based on that population and including the hundreds of thousands of other people who live within easy driving distance of Wichita and that might want to make a roadtrip and attend, so why don’t they try and do that for those people. It doesn’t hurt to ask this question.
March 22, 2018 @ 5:37 pm
Lucinda Williams looks like Tom Petty
March 22, 2018 @ 8:36 pm
And sounds like a sick ol crackwhore……..
March 23, 2018 @ 8:49 am
Can’t say I like your style Jackie.
March 23, 2018 @ 8:58 am
Somebody out there likes it, apparently.
March 23, 2018 @ 9:45 am
Yeah because they also treat objects like women.
March 23, 2018 @ 4:28 am
Kansas City and Denver, and no other central US locations for thousands of mile in any direction. Oh well. Someone needs to tell artists that there are other cities between the coasts that contain people who would like to see them.
March 23, 2018 @ 11:13 am
Huh? Chiraq, and Indy. Cincinnati is a fun town Road trip it, Glenn!!
March 23, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
Arranging a multi-artist tour nowadays is a complex process. I’m sure these veteran artists leave all that to their management companies.They go where their schedules fit and where it’s profitable to go.
March 23, 2018 @ 5:28 am
Steve Earle is such a pompous loser. He’s the Michael Moore of country music, and nearly as fat. I wish he would just go away.
March 23, 2018 @ 11:35 am
“His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin, Ian Stuart Donaldson and Emmylou Harris.[2] He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.”
Someone like this should “go away” because some anonymous person on the internet says so. OK keyboard cowboy, keep on keepin on.
March 23, 2018 @ 3:31 pm
You can probably translate RD’s comment as “I don’t like his politics.”
Personally, I am going to see him this week for the Copperhead Road Anniversary tour.
March 23, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
I own most of his albums. I like his older stuff, and when he was making great music, I could tolerate his communism. My favorite artist, and the greatest songwriter of our generation, is James McMurtry. He certainly is no right-winger. But, I can put aside my own personal feelings because he is such a phenomenal talent and his songs are so insightful and incisive. Earle is nothing special. He has become just as blow-hardy, trite and monotonous as Ted Nugent or Hank Jr. Hank Jr. is a phenomenal talent and his 70’s/early 80’s albums are great, but his vapid take on the national scene and reflexive Republicanism have turned me off in the past two decades. He has nothing interesting to say and nothing to add to the present discussion. Earle is Hank Jr.s mirror image on the other side, only with significantly fewer bonafides and much less musical talent.
March 24, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
Fair enough:… I still don’t really agree with you but admit that your reasoning is a lot more complex than I originally suspected. Apologies for that.
March 26, 2018 @ 6:33 pm
Steve Earle is nothing special? I’ve gotten into this argument on this site before, so I’ll just say I couldn’t disagree more. IMO, he’s one of the most gifted songwriters of his generation, an inspired, brilliant talent who over the course of a long career has written more than a few masterpieces. And I doubt you could find any songwriter in Nashville or anywhere else who would argue with that.
March 23, 2018 @ 2:24 pm
Steve Earle doesn’t have to go away but it’d
March 24, 2018 @ 8:52 am
To all those who complain about good artists not stopping in their hometowns, when you feel down just think of us country music lovers in Italy. WE got 0 shows aside from youtube. This tour alone makes me wanna apply for a green card!
June 13, 2018 @ 7:19 pm
Sorry but just saw the show in NYC. King Leg was so meh. A remarkably amateur-sounding band. King himself has little stage charisma. And he sang out of tune when he tried the Orbison imitation.
Steve Earle has become Tom Waits, mumbling unintelligible barks into the microphone. He was upstaged by his fabulous backup singer/fiddler Lucinda was solid, with a great guitarist. Yoakam’s band and sound was an order of magnitude more professional.
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July 23, 2018 @ 10:14 am
In what order did they perform? Hoping that Dwight is the “headliner” (closer) in Atlanta in a few weeks. He’s killed it every show he’s done here over the past few years, whether in a roadhouse dance hall, a symphony hall, or the (much too short) arena opener for that Eric Church guy.
August 12, 2018 @ 7:21 am
Attended show in Charlotte NC. Earle was great as usual. Lucinda was terrific. Left in middle of Yoakam set (during Thousand miles from… my favorite Yoakum song). WAAAAAAY too loud. Could barely recognize the songs. My ears are still ringing. Read on line similar criticism from previous shows. Makes no sense to ruin a show because of amped up sound system. Usually attend 6-8 shows a year. This stands out as a un-listenable.