Dar Williams will perform at Liberty Hall on June 11 in honor of the 20th anniversary of her debut album The

With Facebook revealing how many people are reached by each post, it has become easier to hone in on what an audience really wants.

At least, that’s why Dar Williams decided to tour to support the 20th anniversary of her debut album and celebrate the beginning of a successful music career.

“When I posted a thing about “The Honesty Room” being 20 years old, 65,000 people saw it, and really pretty quickly,” Williams says. “So we decided quickly to do that thing that usually big, hairy bands from the ’70s do.”

Renowned pop-folk singer-songwriter Williams will take the stage Wednesday at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., to perform present-day renditions of the 13 album tracks, performed in its entirety for the first time since the album’s release.

Williams will be joined by Lucy Wainwright Roche (daughter of 2010 Grammy-winner Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche and half-sister of Rufus and Martha Wainwright). Tickets are $23.50 in advance.

Reflecting on the beginning, Williams remembers the authenticity she gained from self-releasing her first album in 1993 before it was picked up by Razor and Tie Records and reissued two years later

“I remember thinking it would be so awesome to sell 2,000 copies of this record,” Williams says laughing. “Like that would be real coup. But now I’ve sold like 120,000 so that’s good.”

She continues to carry that mentality with her, despite the great success.

“If you can write something you believe in at a time when you’re very much alone and lonely, and surrounded by young people whose advice is lovely, but you always need to trust your own authority, and that works out, then you have that for the rest of your life,” Williams says. “In the middle of a fancy, expensive studio, you can say ‘This really doesn’t feel good to me, we need to back up.”

Williams says she always recommends “a low bar” to people to keep them grounded as artists.

“I was writing songs the way I thought I was supposed to write songs and putting aside the consideration of what would sell and not sell,” she says.

This year is about going backward, she says. Performing songs written so long ago, Williams feels like a different person is singing them. She remembers how much overthinking she did on certain lines, worrying about how people would perceive each instance referenced.

Now she has plenty of other things to worry about, she says.

“A friend of mine said there’s two things you’re always going to hear about an album: It doesn’t sound different enough from the last album or this isn’t the Dar that we love,” Williams says about her new stressors.

“You have to know that you’re always disappointing someone for going too far or not far enough.”

Williams was praised from the moment “The Honesty Room” was released that she was an intelligent songwriter with an insightful perspective, gaining comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Williams lets a melodic phrase with words attached determine the direction of the song. It’s never a direct “A to B to Z” creative process.

“It takes a zig and zag,” she says. “But then there’s this wonderful ‘aha’ moment when you do in fact realize why you wrote it to begin with.”

Williams first came to Lawrence in 1994 for a house concert, and she visits almost every year. She says she’s never had a bad cup of coffee in this town.

“I was the one who insisted to my booking agent that I come back,” she says. “It just seems very enlightened to me.”

She references how The Merc is still in existence despite Wild Oats’ determination to put them out of business years ago, and how membership had doubled, and the mission strengthened.

“There’s something about that incredible can-do local pride,” she says. “Local pride, global welcome: new ideas and new things are very much welcome in Lawrence, but Lawrence is a very fun and proud little city.”