Ray LaMontagne will celebrate 20th anniversary of his debut album at the Orpheum
Along with a remastered vinyl release, he'll be hitting the road for a tour that will bring him to the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis on Aug. 31.
The tour will have the troubadour playing all of Trouble, from start to finish, for the first time since its release in 2004.
"Twenty years. Two decades. That's a lot of water under the bridge," LaMontagne reflected on the anniversary. "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."
Elsewhere in the Midwest, the tour will take LaMontagne through Omaha (Aug. 29); Highland Park, Ill. (Aug. 30); and Iowa City, Iowa (Sep. 2).
Tickets go on sale March 21 at 10 a.m.
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