Lyle Lovett has always done things on his own terms. The four-time Grammy winner and Texas State Musician is bringing his “Songs & Stories” Tour to City Winery venues across the country this spring and summer, with 23 intimate performances across eight cities. This is a rare, up-close setting for an artist of Lovett’s standing, and that rarity is precisely the point.
Across a career spanning 14 albums, Lovett has quietly built one of the most distinctive catalogs in American music. His work draws from country, folk, jazz, and swing without being defined by any one of them. He earned the Americana Music Association’s inaugural Trailblazer Award for exactly that kind of boundary-pushing songwriting. The man does not fit into a box, and he never tried to.
City Winery’s listening-room format is the right stage for this tour. These are not arena shows. They are nights where Lovett revisits songs from across his celebrated catalog and shares the stories behind them, the kind of access that does not come around often. Tickets are extremely limited at each venue.
The performances are the thing. Lovett’s voice, his storytelling, and his catalog together in a small room make for something genuinely special. This is American songwriting at its most lived-in and assured, delivered the way it deserves to be heard.
“Songs & Stories” Tour Dates:
May 13, 14, 15 — St. Louis, MO, City Winery St. Louis
May 27, 28, 29 — Pittsburgh, PA, City Winery Pittsburgh
June 7, 8, 9 — Chicago, IL, City Winery Chicago
June 23, 24, 25 — Atlanta, GA, City Winery Atlanta
June 26, 27 — Hudson Valley, NY, City Winery Hudson Valley
June 29, 30 — Boston, MA, City Winery Boston
July 1 — Boston, MA, City Winery Boston
July 2, 3, 4 — New York, NY, City Winery New York
August 4, 5, 6 — Philadelphia, PA, City Winery Philadelphia