Lucinda Williams & Her Band Buick 6 at the Beacon Theatre

Roy Bittan, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle

Lucinda Williams began playing guitar at age 12 in her native Lake Charles, Louisiana. At age 17, Williams first performed live with her friend, a banjo player, in Mexico City, Mexico. By her early 20s, Williams was playing a folk-rock-country blend in Austin and Houston, Texas. In the 1980s, Williams moved to Los Angeles, California, where she played both acoustic and backed by a rock band. Mary Chapin Carpenter recorded a cover of Williams' "Passionate Kisses" in 1992, earning Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Williams' 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, containing "Still I Long for Your Kiss" from the film The Horse Whisperer, received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Williams has won three Grammy Awards and two Americana Awards. Williams' 13th and most recent album, This Sweet Old World, a re-recording of her 1992 album, Sweet Old World, was released on September 29, 2017. Williams currently is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 20th Anniversary Tour is a 12-date, 10-city tour, where she performs the 13 songs from her breakthrough album, followed by assorted songs from her catalog. The tour features her long-time band Buick 6, consisting of guitarist Stuart Mathis, bassist David Sutton, and drummer Butch Norton. At the Beacon Theatre, Williams also was joined on parts of her set for the first time ever by both keyboardist Roy Bittan (of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band) and vocalist/guitarist/harmonica player Steve Earle, both of whom co-produced the 1998 album with Williams. Performing for more than two hours, Williams used the bandwidth to mix the set, alternating fluidly between Americana, country, folk, blues and rock and roll rooted songs. Chattier than usual, she also used the relaxed pacing to reveal the background of many of the compositions, even sharing quite personal anecdotes about a sour relationship with a live-in musician boyfriend who wrecked a hotel room. Slick and graceful, rich with passion and vulnerability, Williams' exhaustive performance was perhaps the ultimate concert for her fans.

Visit Lucinda Williams at www.lucindawilliams.com.

Setlist

1. Right In Time (with Roy Bittan)
2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (with Roy Bittan)
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (with Roy Bittan)
4. Drunken Angel (with Steve Earle) (with Roy Bittan)
5. Concrete and Barbed Wire (with Steve Earle and Roy Bittan)
6. Lake Charles (with Roy Bittan)
7. Can't Let Go (Randy Weeks cover) (with Roy Bittan)
8. I Lost It (with Roy Bittan)
9. Metal Firecracker (with Roy Bittan)
10. Greenville (with Roy Bittan)
11. Still I Long for Your Kiss (with Roy Bittan)
12. Joy [with a snippet of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," with Steve Earle and Roy Bittan]
13. Jackson (with Steve Earle and Roy Bittan)
14. Ghosts of Highway 20 (Lucinda Williams solo)
15. Those Three Days
16. Dust
17. Essence
18. Righteously (with a snippet of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side")
19. Foolishness

Encore:

1. We've Come Too Far to Turn Around
2. Faith & Grace
3. Get Right with God (with Roy Bittan)
4. The Rising (Bruce Springsteen cover) (with Roy Bittan)