Plaza Live Setlist

Well done, seangod–one you left out, in the #11 position, was “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” Maybe a couple of reversals in the order, but you nailed it all in all. And I agree, “Broken Butterflies” deserves all the asterisks and exclamation points in the world. I think I had heard it but twice before live, maybe just once.

I’ll add a few comments. The coughs from the night before hit “Pineola” and “West Memphis” this time, but not to real disruptive effect. AFter West Memphis, Lu assured the audience she’s Covid-free.

After “You Can’t Rule Me,” Lu noted that Robert Plant/Alison K had also recorded it, though I think it’s an alternate or bonus track to the actual release. “Can’t Let Go” is on that record.

“Bus to Baton Rouge” had a long preface, emphasizing the Methodist-minister grandfathers. One chewed tobacco.

Lu said “I Envy the Wind” was one of her favorites to do.

Ah, “Broken Butterflies.” Afterwards, she said maybe the audience should “workshop” it, and spoke of it being more like a poem or painting. She mentioned “stream-of-consciousness.” But the current memoir project is “the hardest thing I’ve ever written.”

At some point midset, Lu overcompensated for her non-mention of Buick 6 the night before, not only praising the boys in the band for having her back a couple of times, but pointedly saying “Buick 6” and referring to their own projects.

Among the proper names mentioned after “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” we heard Old Testament/B Dylan/L Cohen/Miller Williams. She even sang a few impromptu bars from “Highway 61 Revisited.”

After “changed the Locks,” she said she was tired and sat down for the next four (mainly rockers). She thanked the caregivers at Vanderbilt Hospital for stroke recovery.

Yes, there was a KIND of encore, but she didn’t walk all the way off before “Faith & Grace” and “Get Right.” Even after the lights came up ultimately, she still spoke into the mike and praised the audience and the opportunity.

Yep seangod, an Essence anniversary commemoration is well underway.