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Great report! Lucinda started ending her shows with the “Peace, Love and Revolution” wish after the 2004 election I think. Live at the Filmore ends with it. Thanks for sharing, Diss.
Thanks for your review, Diss, and welcome to the board.
One comment stuck out for me:
“…I actually ended up ‘rediscovering’ some songs that hadn’t really hit me as hard on the albums, particularly songs from the new album.”
Makes concert-going worthwhile, imho!
Lucinda Williams, Under Many Influences
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; Page C04Lucinda Williams is more than a little bit country and more than a little bit rock-and-roll. More specifically, she’s a little Hank Williams, a little John Coltrane, a little Chet Baker and a little Loretta Lynn.
Those were the influences she name-checked halfway through her marvelous 100-minute set Sunday night at Wolf Trap, and you could hear the ghosts of all of them — even Lynn, who is, you know, not dead– hovering in the rafters as Williams took her sweet time working through a program that largely eschewed the hits in favor of whatever she felt like playing.
Williams took her sweet time working with a strong set Sunday.
So: a half-dozen songs from this year’s fine “West” album, including the slow-burning opener, “Rescue,” and later, the pairing of “Mama You Sweet” and “Fancy Funeral.” That somber twofer prompted Williams to call for the upbeat “I Lost It,” “because I don’t want everybody to be crying in their beers,” she said. “Well, actually I do.”
A lack of momentum was the gig’s only flaw. That isn’t surprising given Williams’s notorious, unhurried perfectionism — one of the reasons it took her until her mid-40s to become a star with 1998’s Grammy-winning “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.”
Charlie Louvin opened the show with a trip through one of the most remarkable songbooks in country music.
It was a testament to his influence that many of the songs he performed (“Must You Throw Dirt in My Face,” “Atomic Power,” “The Christian Life”) were familiar from several subsequent generations of musicians having played them.
Louvin sang soulfully for an hour — generous for an opener and astonishing for a man who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this month. “The Christian Life,” indeed.
— Chris Klimek
The show at Wolf Trap was fantastic! I have the set list and will post it later. I have attended Lucinda concerts for the past ten years and this was the first show I’ve been to with such a wide range of songs including new songs beyond West. Not sure about the lyrics to Honey Bee, although the music was rocking! Doug Pettibone did a fine job. The trashing the band has gotten recently didn’t seem deserved Sunday night. Disappointed not to see Wrap My Head Around That in concert, but, hey, there is next Sunday at Rams Head! Lu was really interacting with the audience and taking requests, and seemed to really appreciate the “Lu for President” banner. She was sure smiling alot between songs, another first. I am still reliving the show on my drive to and from work every day anticipating next Sunday’s show.
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