Oh, that crazy Lucinda!...

Lucinda Williams' unique concert plan (Newsday.com)
Lucinda Williams on Friday unveiled plans for an unusual string of shows in New York and Los Angeles this fall. The Grammy winner will play five concerts -- Irving Plaza on Sept. 29 and 30 and Town Hall on Oct. 2, 3 and 4 – in New York, focusing on a different one of her first five studio albums each night. After she performs the album in its entirety, she will play a second set of material taken mainly from her latest album "West" (Lost Highway) as well as the rest of her career.

The NYC breakdown:
9/29 NYC (Irving Plaza) - "World Without Tears"
9/30 NYC (Irving Plaza) - "Essence"
10/2 NYC (Town Hall) - "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
10/3 NYC (Town Hall) - "Sweet Old World"
10/4 NYC (Town Hall) - "Lucinda Williams"

Ticket info from her website:
Tickets for all Los Angeles shows at the El Rey are $35 and will go on sale on Saturday, July 21 at 10am PST. Tickets for the New York City shows on September 29 & 30 at Irving Plaza are $50. Tickets for the October 2, 3 & 4 shows at Town Hall are $65 and $45. NYC tickets will go one sale on July 21 at 1pm EDT. All tickets will be available through Ticketmaster and tickermaster.com.

Concert review: Attitude, talent enthrall crowd (Jeff Spevak, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)
(July 20, 2007) — Lucinda Williams crept in on cat paws, slow and languid, in the heat of the Main Street Armory. Three songs into the show, 20 seconds into the lovely and passive "Lonely Girls," she suddenly stopped. Three thousand, two hundred people were chattering away, creating that aquarium-like mall sound that had made Charlie Louvin's set a half-hour earlier sound like he was the opening act for a cattle auction.

"Lonely Girls" was forgotten. Set list was tossed aside. "This reminds me of growing up in the Delta," the Louisiana native said of the sweaty room, and she and the band leaped into a rocking version of her suicide epic "Pineola," which she hadn't planned on playing. Then the pining lover of "Those Three Days" — both of those songs drop a snarling f-bomb — and she had the attention of the cavernous room. - complete review

Some live Lucinda: