Lucinda Williams live in concert.
ON TOUR

Lucinda Williams

158
critic concert reviews
folk

How good are they LIVE?

Live Rating  

83
%
Based on 
158
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
82
%
Based on 
17
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critics Consensus

Based on 158 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Lucinda Williams is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Lucinda Williams concert reviews describe live shows and performances as poetic, compelling, breathtaking, emotional, confident, sassy, and heartfelt. Lucinda Williams is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers.

How long are their concerts?

How long are Lucinda Williams concerts? Lucinda Williams concerts usually last from 45 minutes to up to two hours.

How much to book?

How much does it cost to book Lucinda Williams? To hire for a live performance or concert, the booking fees for Lucinda Williams range from $40,000 - $75,000, with Lucinda Williams's current estimated booking fee to be around $60,000.

On tour

Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh NC, United States (July 28);Bourla, Antwerpen, Belgium (September 8); TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands (September 9); Fållan, Johanneshov, Stockholm, Sweden (September 20)

Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Lake Charles, United States (1/26/1953)
Bio
Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and alt-country songwriter and singer. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by TIME magazine in 2002.
Has Performed With
Steve Earle, Doug Pettibone
Artist Website

Critic Concert Reviews

Boston.com (USA)

May 23, 2026
%
Even as the Grammy nominations pile up and the Americana sound she helped pioneer becomes increasingly mainstream, Williams has lost none of her underdog cool.

Americana Highways (USA)

May 22, 2026
%
Lucinda Williams at The Concert Hall at Groton Music Center

musicOMH (UK)

February 6, 2026
80
%
American alt-country trailblazer delivers songs that continue to strike a chord

Americana (UK)

February 3, 2026
%
On this, predictably, wet and sleety night The Barbican became the centre of the Americana world, as the official Number One Greatest Americana Artist was set to take the stage with her band.

The Guardian (UK)

January 28, 2026
80
%
At 73, the lodestar of Americana still writes with urgency, as the patient force of her band sends the music grooving skywards

Hot Press Magazine (Ireland)

January 27, 2026
%
Americana legend Lucinda Williams empowers Dublin with songs of resistance at 3Olympia gig

Spectrum Culture (USA)

October 9, 2025
%
Both Kristi Noem and Lucinda Williams came to Portland on October 7th. Noem used her time to bar mainstream press from covering her visit, pacing on the roof of the “embattled” ICE building surveying “the destruction” and calling local leaders “pansies.

Past critic reviews published in

Glide Magazine (USA), The Music (Australia), Rolling Stone (UK), Exclaim (Canada), Strange Carolinas (USA) and more

Image Credit

Didier Moose [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons

Latest Release

World's Gone Wrong (23 January 2026)