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 and 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".