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1Protection
2 Can’t Let Go
3 Pineola
4 Drunken A
5 West Memphis
6 World Without Tears [Lu bemoans that “once again” she has to do this one for shooting victims: also with talk of President Obama’s reaction and the thought to us “I know y’all are of like mind on this”]
7 Ghost of Highway 20
8 If There’s a Heaven [lovelier the second time around for me, including the couplet “Was my painall in vain”–or something close: also, Lu prefaces it as being influenced by the Louvin Bros, Hank Williams, and all the hymns of her childhood]
9 Lake Charles
10 2 Kool [with massive post-song applause]
11 Dust
12 Are You Down
13 [the strains of “REal Live Bleeding…” begin, but no lyrics are in the Book for it. . . Lu says “not two nights in a row,” then allows as how she doesn’t really need the lyric book, but still. . . Vivian, who had jumped up to dance, sits down while Justin futilely flips through the Book…the band plays on, but. . .]
13a Out of Touch [during which monitors guy Corey walks on waving a couple of lyric pages]
14 Real LIve Bleeding
15 Righteously
16 Foolishness [oddly, Justin walks on while Lu is still performing the end of the song and hand delivers what appear to be more lyric sheets]
17 Honeybee
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18 Should I Stay
19 Joy
20 Get Right with GodGood to see Vivian and Mark, my friends Donald and Sylvia, the whole rainy crowd. . .
Loved this hometown show, although I always have mixed feelings about the lovely and historic Memorial Hall as a venue. Usually a reserved crowd and the ushers tamp them down if any enthusiasm manifests in standing up/dancing/etc. I guess that’s the formal South for you! They also ran out of wine before Lucinda took the stage!! Party foul! I threw caution to the wind and stood up during the encores, which I felt was fair game. “Heaven” moved my friend to tears. She lost her father under difficult circumstances about 10 years ago and said that the song immediately brought back the most raw emotions in her, but that it was beautiful and cathartic. It was my first time seeing and hearing the newly configured Buick 6 and they were smokin! Viv
From Tom:
We have obviously fallen way behind on these little updates. We’ll try to get caught up asap. For whatever it’s worth trying to finish mixes and masters of a new record while on the road is not advisable.
Coming off of two amazing nights in Atlanta I don’t think there would be a better place follow that than Chapel Hill. It’s another place that Lu absolutely loves to play and we always love to come back. Lucinda was last there on her birthday in Jan. when Lucinda presented the movie Wise Blood as part of a program for the Modern School Of Film. An ironic sidebar; in Jan. the MSOF put her at the hotel on the campus of Duke, and this time we stayed at the hotel at UNC, so we have both sides of the rivalry covered.
This was also the first time that Lucinda has played Memorial Hall on the UNC campus and it just a beautiful sounding room, and that always leads to a great show. There were many highlights, including a sobering dedication of World Without Tears dedicated to the memory of the victims in the Oregon shooting. It was also the first show to feature all three of the brand new songs she has been playing, the Ghosts Of Highway 20, If There’s A Heaven and the second appearance of Dust.
After the show it was an incredible honor to meet Prof. William Ferris of the Center For The Studies of The American South at UNC. UNC has become world renowned for it’s collection of music and art and southern folklife. They collect and archive people’s life works. For instance they will see be getting all of BB King’s archives. We had a great discussion, also with Hodding Carter (look him up) about a wide range of topics -including the archiving of Lucinda’s works. Mr. Ferris is also a known photographer and took the picture of the Get Right With God cross that is in the Essence cd. Simply amazing night of people and stories. UNC should be very proud.
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