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1 Something Wicked
2 Burning B
3 Pineola
4 Drunken Angel (elaborate intro; it’s actually the girlfriend of Blaze who wrote the memoir about living in a treehouse0
[Impromptu happy birthday song to Lu by crowd–who must have been functioning on Eastern time)
5 Right in Time
6 Those 3 Days
7 Walk On (Lu reflects after on its relevance as a “topical” song)
8 Ghosts
9 Lake Charles (the clyde woodward background is now completely off the map: the guy hocked her 12-string Martin guitar given to her by a Texan, the pawn shop subsequently burned. Related to this, Lu can’t find one of her Grammys. She also makes clear Blaze Foley was never one of her boyfriends, and that Tom in her life today has countered much of the above)
10 Bitter M (with mention of Rosie Flores)
11 2 Kool
12 Steal Y Love
13 Doors of H
14 Changed the L
15 Come On (Lu says it feels good to drop the f-bomb in the course of this song she wrote years ago, “especially now”)
16 Essence
17 Righteously
18 Foolishness______________
19 God Don’t Ever Change (Blind Willie Johnson number with two false starts, Lu undaunted and calm)
20 Rebel Rebel
21 JoyGreat show and the hometown Seattle fans really brought the energy in the packed house.
Lu’s mood that i previously described as a bit meloncholy in Portland was much more jubilant tonight.
She also seemed genuinely pleased by the early Happy B’Day song sung by the crowd.Great to be home after traveling by plane, train, bus, and car to hit SF, Portland and Seattle shows.
Lu commented several times during that string of shows as to how a lot of her more political songs are really becoming more relevant in the current political climate, and you could really feel it in the crowd response to songs like Walk On, East Side of Town, Foolishness et al. Grateful to have been able to make the handful of shows starting innauguration day. Also grateful to stoger for the help navigating the travel and chance to see the infamous “Drunken Angel” room he was able to snag in Portland. Very cool room and I have every intention of beating him to it when Lu plays Portland next time.. 😀
@SamishSeaMike wrote:
Great show and the hometown Seattle fans really brought the energy in the packed house.
Lu’s mood that i previously described as a bit meloncholy in Portland was much more jubilant tonight.
She also seemed genuinely pleased by the early Happy B’Day song sung by the crowd.Great to be home after traveling by plane, train, bus, and car to hit SF, Portland and Seattle shows.
Lu commented several times during that string of shows as to how a lot of her more political songs are really becoming more relevant in the current political climate, and you could really feel it in the crowd response to songs like Walk On, East Side of Town, Foolishness et al. Grateful to have been able to make the handful of shows starting innauguration day. Also grateful to stoger for the help navigating the travel and chance to see the infamous “Drunken Angel” room he was able to snag in Portland. Very cool room and I have every intention of beating him to it when Lu plays Portland next time.. 😀 Let the battle be joined, Mike. It’s not a double room. Just me representing life, Lu representing art (you can post that pic too, if you like).
@stoger wrote:
9 Lake Charles (the clyde woodward background is now completely off the map: the guy hocked her 12-string Martin guitar given to her by a Texan, the pawn shop subsequently burned. Related to this, Lu can’t find one of her Grammys. She also makes clear Blaze Foley was never one of her boyfriends, and that Tom in her life today has countered much of the above)
Even after all of these shows, we learned more about Lake Charles and Clyde in Seattle! Lu started her above aside by saying, “Boy, can I pick ’em!” and ended it on the hopeful note, “So, don’t give up!” The Texan who gave her the guitar was a musician, whom it seemed she didn’t want to name from the stage ❓ … This anonymous musician gave the guitar to her on the condition that she not sell or give it away (which she technically didn’t do since Clyde was the one who hocked it).
I, too, am amazed at how Lu’s songs can apply to such different situations than the one they were written about. The song “Walk On” is so apropos for the marchers, and I listened to it before I walked onto a stage to give a public lecture earlier this month. It even helped me before job interview this last week. As I recall, Lu originally wrote it as a “letter” of sorts to her younger self. “Everything But The Truth” is another song that feels weirdly topical.
Her songs speak to all of us, that’s for sure. She channels the human condition…
NIce picture, stoger! 😀
I found a lengthy interview (I believe NYT) from the 90’s where she mentions the guitar and circumstances of it’s demise. It’s a very good read, and unfortunately, I didn’t bookmark it. I’ll try to find it.
“Bowie might be dead, but Williams left a ticket at will call in his name, and it didn’t go unclaimed.” <—-Classic.
http://www.seattlemag.com/lucinda-williams-played-bowie-achieved-catharsis-last-night-neptune
I really wish these reviews would not focus on Lucinda’s choice of drink. 👿
@Lafayette wrote:
“Bowie might be dead, but Williams left a ticket at will call in his name, and it didn’t go unclaimed.” <—-Classic.
http://www.seattlemag.com/lucinda-williams-played-bowie-achieved-catharsis-last-night-neptune
I really wish these reviews would not focus on Lucinda’s choice of drink. 👿
There was a worse preview blurb in the weekly Seattle newspaper The Stranger. The Seattle Weekly preview was tolerable.
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