R&B singer-songwriter JoJo will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her hit album, The High Road, with a celebratory tour landing in smaller venues, taking a stripped-back approach and inviting longtime listeners to remember that there was considerably more on the album than its biggest single.

The Grammy-award winner announced The High Road Tour: 20 Years Unplugged on Monday, September 14, revealing seven intimate North American dates scheduled for November. Artist presale begins Tuesday, September 15 at 10 a.m. local time, while the general on-sale opens Wednesday, September 16 at 10 a.m. local time. Ticket information is available through JoJo's official website.

“This album changed the trajectory of my life and career in so many ways. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since The High Road. These songs have grown with me, and I’ve grown with them," states JoJo.

JoJo also made clear that these are not simply nostalgia shows built around one enormous chorus. In her tour announcement, she told fans to start warming up their favorite song from the album other than "Too Little Too Late" and teased that she "might be lookin for some singers." The hit will, naturally, remain part of the night.

Released October 17, 2006, The High Road, JoJo's sophomore album, arrived when she was still a teenager but already possessed a voice built for material well beyond disposable teen-pop. The record debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, while "Too Little Too Late" became her biggest Hot 100 hit, climbing to No. 3. The album also built a deeper fan following around songs like "Anything," "Like That," "The Way You Do Me," "How to Touch a Girl" and the title track.

Some of that catalog has already been creeping back into JoJo's recent live sets. During her August appearance at Toronto's CNE Bandshell, she performed both "Anything" and "Like That" alongside newer material, covers and the career staples "Leave (Get Out)" and "Too Little Too Late." An anniversary run designed around audience participation could give the less obvious corners of The High Road considerably more room.

The album also carries a different kind of weight in JoJo's story because she eventually had to revisit it on her own terms. After years of label disputes complicated the next phase of her recording career, she re-recorded both her 2004 debut and The High Road and released the new versions through Clover Music in 2018. That makes this anniversary more than a simple rewind to 2006. JoJo is now revisiting songs from an era that once represented both her rapid ascent and the beginning of one of pop music's most notorious artist-label standoffs.

Her current music is far removed from a career stuck in preservation mode. JoJo's most recent solo project, the eight-track NGL EP, arrived in January 2025 through Clover Music and BMG. The project included "Too Much to Say," "Porcelain," "Ready to Love," "Nobody" and "One Last Time," leaning into the R&B dispositions that have increasingly defined her adult catalog. She supported it with the Too Much To Say Tour in 2025, where the set routinely connected NGL songs with records spanning her debut, The High Road, good to know and 2021's trying not to think about it.

Her latest full-length studio album remains trying not to think about it, released in October 2021. Since then, her work has expanded beyond conventional album cycles. She published the memoir Over the Influence in 2024, returned to Broadway as Satine in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, released NGL, and joined Craig David for "In It With You" in 2025.

A planned 2026 return to Broadway also took an unexpected turn. JoJo had been announced to succeed Lea Michele as Florence Vassy in Chess beginning June 23, but the production moved its closing date to June 21, canceling her run before it began. She has since revealed that she has workshopped an original Broadway project, keeping musical theater firmly inside the next chapter of her career.

That next chapter also includes new music. JoJo recently confirmed that she is working toward a new album in 2027, describing the project as the creative pursuit currently exciting her most. It places the High Road anniversary shows in an unusually productive stretch: she is not returning to the past because the present has gone quiet. She is using seven intimate nights to reopen a formative album while another one is already taking shape.

Twenty years later, "Too Little Too Late" remains the unavoidable centerpiece of The High Road. The more interesting possibility is what happens when JoJo turns the microphone toward fans who stayed long enough to know every song that came after it.

'The High Road Tour: 20 Years Unplugged' Tour Dates:
November 13 – Boston, MA – Royale
November 16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
November 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of the Living Arts
November 18 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
November 21 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
November 22 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
November 24 – Chicago, IL – Park West