Lil Wayne Extends 'I Am Still Music' Tour

Lil Wayne's immensely popular I Am Still Music tour, which has already hit 25 cities in North America, is about to be extended through the summer. The rapper will embark a new leg that will hit 40 cities between mid-July and mid-September, kicking off with a show at the Comcast Theater in Hartford, Connecticut on July 13th.

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Rick Ross, who had been a support act on the previous leg of the tour and the original I Am Music jaunt in 2008, will also be featured during this round of touring. Pop singer Keri Hilson, hip-hop group Far East Movement and R&B vocalist Lloyd will also open for Weezy at every show this summer.

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Here is the full itinerary for the second leg of the I Am Still Music Tour. Tickets for select dates will go on sale through LiveNation.com starting the weekend of May 20th.

7/13 Comcast Theater, Hartford, CT
7/15 Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater, Bristow, VA
7/16 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
7/17 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
7/19 Toyota Pavilion, Scranton, PA
7/20 Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
7/22 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
7/23 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
7/24 Darien Lake, Darien, NY
7/26 Hershey Pavilion, Hershey, PA
7/27 Riverbed Amphitheater, Cincinnatti, OH
7/29 Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
7/30 Farm Bureau Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
8/2 Cruzan Amphitheater, West Palm Beach, FL
8/3 1-800 ASK GARY Amphitheater
8/5 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Birmingham, AL
8/6 Aaron's At Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
8/7 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Charlotte, NC
8/9 XCEL Center, Minneapolis, MN
8/10 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI
8/12 First Niagara Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
8/13 Midwest Amphitheater, Tinley, IL
8/14 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Noblesville, IN
8/16 Scotia Bank Place, Ottawa, ON
8/17 Bell Centre, Montreal, QC
8/19 Molson Amphitheater, Toronto, ON
8/20 DTE Energy Theater, Clarkston, MI
8/21 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO
8/23 Spring Center, Kansas City, MO
8/25 Ashley Furniture Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
8/26 Cricket Wireless, San Diego, CA
8/27/11 Glen Helen Pavilion, San Bernardino, CA
8/30 Comfort Dental, Denver, CO
8/31 Hard Rock Pavilion, Albuquerque, NM
9/2 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
9/3 Sleep Train Amphitheater, Marysville, CA
9/7 Qwest Arena, Omaha, NE
9/9 AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX
9/10 Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TX
9/11 Woodlands Amphitheater, Woodlands, TX

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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