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Edited By Jonathan Cohen. June
04, 2004, 10:45 AM ET
Lucinda Sets Summer
Tour, Special Shows
Along with
rescheduling concerts canceled
in the wake of her mother's death, Lucinda
Williams has put together a summer tour and will
participate in a few one-of-a-kind gigs. The
tour will kick off July 7 in San Diego and close
Aug. 21 in Kansas City, Mo.
The end of the summer trek will
return Williams to Charlotte, N.C. (Aug. 15),
Nashville (Aug. 17), Columbus, Ohio (Aug. 18)
and Kansas City -- all cities she missed at the
end of her spring tour.
Tonight
(June 4), Williams will share a stage with her
father, renowned poet Miller Williams, at the
Art Institute of Chicago. Presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago, the
event is a rare public family collaboration
between the artist and her father, who reviews
his daughter's lyrics in a relationship not
unlike an apprenticeship.
In describing his reaction to the
material she had written for her most recent
Lost Highway album, "World Without Tears,"
Williams said, for the first time, he had no
edits or suggestions to make. "It blew my mind,
because -- lemme tell ya -- my dad, if he had
something to say, he would say it," she told
Billboard last year. "He said, 'I think this is
the closest thing to poetry that you've ever
done,' which is quite a compliment. So I said,
'Does that mean I graduated? He said, 'Yeah, I
guess so.'"
Released in April 2003, "World
Without Tears" debuted at No. 10 on The
Billboard 200. The set has sold 348,000 copies
in the United States, according to Nielsen
SoundScan.
Williams, who was among the guests at
the Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws &
Angels USA Network concert
special, will also participate in the July
9-10 Gram Parsons tribute concerts in Santa
Barbara and Los Angeles, Calif. As
previously reported, the event will also
feature performances by Norah Jones, Dwight
Yoakam, Steve Earle, the Mavericks' Raul Malo
and Jim Lauderdale.
Here are Williams' tour dates
June 4: Chicago
(Art Institute of Chicago)
July 7:
San Diego (Humphrey's)
July 9:
Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara Bowl; Gram
Parsons Tribute)
July 15: Reno,
Nev. (Robert Z Hawkins Amphitheatre)
July 16: Grass Valley, Calif.
(California Worldfest Fairgrounds)
July 18: Saratoga, Calif. (Mountain
Winery)
July 19: Jacksonville,
Ore. (Britt Pavilion)
July 21:
Seattle (Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheater)
July 22: Bend, Ore. (Athletic Club of
Bend)
July 23: Portland, Ore.
(Oregon Zoo Ampitheatre)
July 25:
Calgary, Alberta (Calgary Folk Music
Festival)
July 26: Edmonton,
Alberta (Winspear Centre)
July 28:
Apple Valley, Minn. (Music in the Zoo: Outdoor
Amphitheatre)
July 29: Milwaukee
(Pabst Theater)
July 30: Des
Moines, Iowa (Simon Estes Amphitheatre)
Aug. 6: Shelburne, Vt. (The Green at
Shelburne Museum)
Aug. 7: Newport,
R.I. (Apples and Eve Folk Festival)
Aug. 8: North Hampton, Mass. (Calvin
Theatre)
Aug. 10: New York
(Central Park Summerstage)
Aug.
11: Oyster Bay, N.Y. (The Planting Fields)
Aug. 12: Bethlehem, Pa. (Zoellner
Arts Center)
Aug. 14: Washington,
D.C. (930 Club)
Aug. 15:
Charlotte, N.C. (Visulite Theatre)
Aug. 17: Nashville (Ryman
Auditorium)
Aug. 18: Columbus,
Ohio (Promo West Pavilion)
Aug.
20: St. Louis, Mo. (Pageant)
Aug.
21: Kansas City, Mo. (Beaumont Club)
-- Barry A. Jeckell,
N.Y.
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