Under the moniker “the LSD Tour” (with the cheeky tagline: “It’s worth the trip”), raspy-voiced Americana singer Lucinda Williams, hardcore troubadour Steve Earle (with his band the Dukes), and spiritual son of Bakersfield Dwight Yoakam have been trekking across the landscape of North America this summer. The package tour—which hits Chicago near the end of its run—promotes Williams’s re-recording of her seminal country-, blues-, and folk-rock-influenced 1992 album Sweet Old World (retitled This Sweet Old World) and the 30th anniversary of Earle’s classic Copperhead Road, as well as Yoakam’s new SiriusXM satellite radio station, Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield Beat, which features tracks from his back catalog and the music that shaped him.…
Under the moniker “the LSD Tour” (with the cheeky tagline: “It’s worth the trip”), raspy-voiced Americana singer Lucinda Williams, hardcore troubadour Steve Earle (with his band the Dukes), and spiritual son of Bakersfield Dwight Yoakam have been trekking across the landscape of North America this summer. The package tour—which hits Chicago near the end of its run—promotes Williams’s re-recording of her seminal country-, blues-, and folk-rock-influenced 1992 album Sweet Old World (retitled This Sweet Old World) and the 30th anniversary of Earle’s classic Copperhead Road, as well as Yoakam’s new SiriusXM satellite radio station, Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield Beat, which features tracks from his back catalog and the music that shaped him.…