VIA PRESS RELEASE | Celebrated Grammy award winner Ray LaMontagne today unveils a special remastered vinyl edition of his seminal debut album, Trouble, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the release—purchase/share here. The remaster marks the second full-length release on LaMontagne’s own Liula Records.
This August, LaMontagne will embark on the Trouble 20th Anniversary Tour, performing the album in its entirety for the first time since its release. The North American leg of 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. The Weather Station will support. In the UK and Ireland, LaMontagne will make stops at 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, and London’s Royal Albert Hall, in addition to a newly added London date at Eventim Apollo on June 9, 2026. Find full routing below and purchase tickets here.
LaMontagne reflects, “Today the 20th anniversary remaster of Trouble is here. What a journey the past twenty-plus years have been. Forgive me if I wear my heart on my sleeve for a moment. Holding this album in my hands, I cannot help but feel overwhelmingly grateful. Grateful to the universal consciousness for sharing these songs with me, and through me, so that I, in turn could share them with you.
Grateful for those of you who understood and appreciated my musical language right from the beginning. And grateful for those that didn’t, and who threw insults at me instead, which only served to strengthen my own belief in myself and the music. Grateful for the love and support of my wife and best friend of nearly 30 years, and for the love of my two boys, now men, embarking on their own adventures. Grateful for these ten songs. The songs that brought me to you, and you to me, and so enriching my life. And I hope, yours too.
There is truth in these words from Goethe: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. Looking forward to this tour, playing some of my favorite venues in the country, and singing these old songs again.”
On the remastered vinyl, LaMontagne shares, “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 and the instrumentation that were somehow lost previously. It sounds as if a sonic veil has been lifted. I cannot thank them enough.”
LaMontagne has spent the past two decades carving a singular space for himself in modern music. In a career that has seen overflowing critical acclaim, he’s opted out of the spotlight and its accompanying celebrity in the remote hills of Western Massachusetts. The New York Times accounts, “Visiting Ray LaMontagne is like going back to another century.” His distinctive voice, described by Rolling Stone as an “impeccably weathered tenor croon,” continues to serve as a conduit for era-defining melodies and songwriting. Across nine studio albums, LaMontagne has let his songs and story speak for themselves, ringing a deep chord in the American subconscious.
