Ray LaMontagne will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of his seminal debut album, Trouble, with a special remastered vinyl edition, set for release June 13—presave/preorder here.
Additionally, LaMontagne will embark on the Trouble 20th Anniversary Tour, performing the album in its entirety for the first time since its release. The tour will see stops at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Toronto’s Massey Hall, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and will finish with three nights in New York at Beacon Theatre—find full routing below and purchase tickets here.
LaMontagne reflected on the momentous anniversary in a post on his socials, sharing, “Twenty years. Two Decades. That’s a lot of water under the bridge. Every cell in my body has changed three times over in that time. I have been three times reborn. There are moments in your life when you need to place a marker. Some people think that it is brave, or fearless, to never look back. I don’t believe that. For the simple reason that if you never look back you will never see how far you have come. This year I place a sign post: twenty years of Trouble.”
On the remastered vinyl, LaMontagne continues, “When Trouble was initially released Vinyl was considered a dead format, never to breathe again. Digital audio was the new King. As we know this has proved untrue. Each year more and more music lovers are listening to Vinyl and appreciating it for its depth and breadth of sound, for its physical heft, for its tangible realness. Over the past few months Brian Lee and Bob Jackson at Waygate Mastering have remastered the album for the first time specifically for Vinyl. And I have to say, it sounds incredible. They have managed to bring out subtleties in the vocals, the instrumentation, that were somehow lost previously. It sounds as if a sonic veil has been lifted. I cannot thank them enough.”
TROUBLE 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR DATES
August 23—Boise, ID—Morrison Center
August 26—Vail, CO—Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
August 27—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 29—Omaha, NE—Holland Center
August 30—Highland Park, IL—Ravinia Festival
August 31—Minneapolis, MN—Orpheum Theatre
September 2—Iowa City, IA—Hancher Auditorium
September 3—St. Louis, MO—Stifel Theatre
September 5—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium
September 6—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium
September 7—Columbus, OH—Mershon Auditorium
September 9—Syracuse, NY—The Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater
September 10—Wilkes-Barre, PA—F.M. Kirby Center
September 12—Selbyville, DE—Freeman Arts Pavilion
September 13—Philadelphia, PA—The Met
September 14—Vienna, VA—Wolf Trap
September 16—Durham, NC—DPAC
September 17—Greenville, SC—Peace Center
September 19—Louisville, KY—The Louisville Palace
September 20—Detroit, MI—Fox Theatre
September 21—Akron, OH—Akron Civic Theatre
September 23—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall
September 24—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall
September 26—Boston, MA—Leader Bank Pavilion
September 27—Boston, MA—Leader Bank Pavilion
September 29—Portland, ME—State Theatre
September 30—Portland, ME—State Theatre
October 2—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre
October 3—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre
October 4—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre
