Saratoga, Ca Recap

1 Can’t Let go
2 Right in Time
3 Buttercup
4 Well Well Well
5 Tears of Joy
6 Where is My Love [“We haven’t played this one in awhile”]
7 Blue
8 Born to Be Loved[Lu is brought an extra layer from the wings against the evening cool: “It’s the boyfriend jacket look”]
9 Steal Your Love [Blake is said to be lu’s “fashion adviser”]
10 Convince Me
11 Hot Blood [“This is an old song we just started doing it again”]
12 Unsuffer Me
13 Come On
14 Essence
15 Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
16 Changed the Locks
17 Honeybee
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18 Blessed
19 Joy
20 Get Right with God

Last flourish of “Stand on the Rock” occurs at 22:29:59–thus, no pulling of the plug!

David Lindley was summoned off stage about 35 minutes into his set, perhaps to avoid a repeat of any Robert Earl Keen-like encore from last year. The hook.

Lucinda, what happened? We were all there, but you kept us waiting for half an hour, before you sidled onto the stage, mumbled a hello, and started singing with the amps so loud it was difficult to hear the words you sang. Your hair looked like bed hair, your shirt wasn’t buttoned all the way down and you took no time to chat with your fans.

Your new songs are all on the dark side — what happened to the humor and satire of your earlier lyrics? And the verses repeated themselves — one verse of these would have been sufficient. Graham your guitarist was terrific and your bass player talented; your drummer way too loud and didn’t know when to stop. I’ve been a fan since your first tape was produced and I heard it over the radio in NYC. I rushed out to buy it. Boy, what a let down. We left early. So did any number of other fans. Hope you can climb out of whatever trough of pain you’re in and reclaim the old Lucinda.

Betcha there’s a story there.