Sugarland's 'Enjoy the Ride' anniversary tour pulls into Covelli Centre Nov 5

Twenty years after the album, the duo brings the Ride or Die Tour to downtown Youngstown on a Thursday, with Payton Sullivan opening.

Somewhere in the Covelli Centre next Thursday, someone is going to sing every word of "Stuck Like Glue" a half-beat ahead of the band. That's the deal with an anniversary tour, and it's the deal on Thursday, Nov 5, when Sugarland brings the Ride or Die Tour to 229 East Front Street.

Showtime is 7 p.m., and doors open an hour before. The venue lists tickets at $45 to $149.50 plus fees, on sale through Covelli Centre and Ticketmaster. Payton Sullivan is the special guest.

The tour exists to mark 20 years of Enjoy the Ride, the album that the duo is building this run around. The set, according to the venue's announcement, reaches across more than two decades of hits: "Stay," "Baby Girl," "Stuck Like Glue," "All I Want to Do." If any of those were on the radio in your car on the way to work in a previous decade, this is the night to hear them again with a few thousand people who remember the same drive.

If any of those were on the radio in your car in a previous decade, this is the night to hear them again with a few thousand people who remember the same drive.

It is a 26-city run that opened Oct 1 in St. Augustine, Fla., and wraps Nov 21 in Texas. By the time it reaches the Mahoning Valley it will be more than a month into the road, which usually means a tight band and a setlist that's stopped changing. Youngstown sits between a run of Midwest dates — Duluth, the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area, and Rockford in October — and Atlanta two nights later, on Nov 7, then Bangor, Maine, and southeastern Connecticut the following week.

The Covelli Centre is the right size for this. It holds about 5,900 for concerts, which puts it in the middle ground between a theater and a full arena. It's big enough for the singalong to sound like one and small enough that the seats up top still feel connected to the stage. For downtown, a Thursday show at a building this size is a real night out.

The announcement went out from the venue back in August, when presales and the general on-sale came and went, so the cheaper seats are worth checking sooner rather than later. The posted range runs from $45 at the low end to $149.50 at the top, before fees.

If you were there for these songs the first time, you already know whether you're going. If you weren't, a Thursday night downtown with a duo celebrating two decades of a record is about as easy an introduction as the calendar offers this fall.

Sources: Sugarland: Ride or Die Tour – Covelli Centre (covellicentre.com); Sugarland Announces The Ride or Die Tour Including a Stop in Youngstown – Covelli Centre (covellicentre.com); Sugarland Ride or Die Tour – Youngstown – Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com); Sugarland Announces The Ride Or Die Tour This Fall (Pollstar) (news.pollstar.com)