Lucinda Williams Opens 2016 Tour In New Haven

Lucinda Williams opened her tour in support of the new album, The Ghosts of Highway 20, on Saturday night at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, CT.

While Williams’ is promoting the new album, she made sure not to make her set too top heavy with new material, playing only four tracks from the set and not playing any until almost half way through the main set.

In the End, Lucinda played more songs, five, from her classic Car Wheels on a Gravel Road while mixing in three each from 2014’s Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone and 2001’s Essence.

Late in the show also brought three covers, Woody Guthrie’s I Ain’t Got No Home, Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come and an evening ending Rockin’ in the Free World.

The set list:

Main Set
Protection (from Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, 2014)
Pineola (from Sweet Old World, 1992)
Drunken Angel (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 1998)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 1998)
Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) (from Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, 2014)
West Memphis (from Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, 2014)
The Ghost of Highway 20 (from The Ghosts of Highway 20, 2016)
Lake Charles (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 1998)
Place in My Heart (from The Ghosts of Highway 20, 2016)
Jackson (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 1998)
If My Love Could Kill (from The Ghosts of Highway 20, 2016)
Dust (from The Ghosts of Highway 20, 2016)
Out of Touch (from Essence, 2001)
Changed the Locks (from Lucinda Williams, 1988)
Essence (from Essence, 2001)
Joy (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 1998)
Blessed (from Blessed, 2011)