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Excellent show Tuesday night at the 930 Club in Washington, DC. Thank you to forum member “Like a Rose” and her mother for their company, watching my coat on the railing, and saving my floor-space during breaks.
I am flying home today, after 3 excellent shows. stoger is on an overnight Greyhound bus to North Carolina for the Asheville show, so his report may be delayed a bit.
The 930 Club setlist:
1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
2. Fruits of My Labor
3. Metal Firecracker
4. Still I Long For Your Kiss
5. Pineola
6. Drunken Angel
7. Buttercup
8. I Don’t Know How You’re Living (corrected per GrumpyMama’s note; thanks!)
9. Sweet Old World
10. Born To Be Loved
11. Convince Me
12. Seeing Black
13. Essence
14. Unsuffer Me
15. Bleeding Fingers
16. Righteously
17. Changed the Locks
18. Honeybee
19. Blessed
20. Get Right With God
21. Joy
22. For What It’s WorthAgain another great mix on the set lists Paul.
Here is most of the first song “I just Wanted To See You So Bad”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1PcguLlCk
lwj
I really enjoyed last night’s 9:30 show. Good, good stuff. Val was completely on fire. He’s very active and has an edgy tone. Reminded me of Albert Collins.
@eastside_eddie wrote:
Reminded me of Albert Collins.
That’s high praise, indeed!
Welcome to the forum, eastside_eddie…
Tom
@paul_from_losangeles wrote:
Excellent show Tuesday night at the 930 Club in Washington, DC. Thank you to forum member “Like a Rose” and her mother for their company, watching my coat on the railing, and saving my floor-space during breaks.
I am flying home today, after 3 excellent shows. stoger is on an overnight Greyhound bus to North Carolina for the Asheville show, so his report may be delayed a bit.
The 930 Club setlist:
1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
2. Fruits of My Labor
3. Metal Firecracker
4. Still I Long For Your Kiss
5. Pineola
6. Drunken Angel
7. Buttercup
8. I Don’t Know Why You’re Living
9. Sweet Old World
10. Born To Be Loved
11. Convince Me
12. Seeing Black
13. Essence
14. Unsuffer Me
15. Bleeding Fingers
16. Righteously
17. Changed the Locks
18. Honeybee
19. Blessed
20. Get Right With God
21. Joy
22. For What It’s WorthThanks for blowing my ‘Dog travel cover, Paul. Fine night indeed. Lu said little between songs, prompting one fan after “Convince Me” to shout out “Talk to us, Lu.” She then launched an MSNBC endorsement which segued into an anti-Glen Beck diatribe. Later, she semi-apologized for not pattering between songs, saying “But I’m here” in a way to make it clear that, if anyone even suspected otherwise, she was fully engaged in belting out these great songs in a very immediate way. One of the best shows.
A review from the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lucinda-williams-at-the-930-club-making-misery-sound-sublime/2011/03/16/AB4zEgg_story.htmlLucinda Williams at the 9:30 Club, making misery sound sublime
Dave McKenna, Wednesday, March 16, 6:02 PM
The quality and consistency of Lucinda Williams’s songbook can lead one to think that somebody leaked her the cheat code for how to beat the songwriting game. At her just-plain-astonishing show Tuesday at the 9:30 Club, Williams’s great tunes — old and new, rocking and bluesy, sad and sadder — came like waves hitting the beach, one after another after another.Josh Sisk / FOR THE WASHINGTON POST – Lucinda Williams, performing at the 9:30 Club, featured songs from her new album, “Blessed.”
Williams, 58, has always been able to turn a few repeated notes into memorable riffs, and even mundane observations — such as “His mama believed in the Pentecost. She got the preacher to say some words,” from the suicide chronicle “Pineola” — sound absolutely profound when she drawls them. And nobody has ever been more at home with misery than Williams. Backed by a three-piece rock outfit, she reprised “Metal Firecracker,” a musically buoyant yet utterly depressing gem about trying to walk away from a relationship with some pride, with a level of resignation familiar only to those who’ve been dumped a lot: “All I ask is don’t tell anybody the secrets that I told you,” she sang over and over.
With guitarist Val McCallum stomping on his tremolo pedal, her reworking of the drug-love anthem “Essence,” ending with a long blues-rock jam, made addiction seem both scary and desirable. Drummer Butch Norton was pounding his kit so hard on the 2007 dirge “Unsuffer Me” that his sticks shattered as if hit by an inside fastball.
Much of the material in the nearly two-hour set came from Williams’s new album, “Blessed.” “Buttercup” found the recently married Williams revealing more backbone than she’s shown in past relationship songs — “Good luck finding your buttercup” she snarled — and as much melodic oomph as ever. The live rendition of the disc’s title song, with its litany of references to mystics and various downtrodden types over a few simple chords, recalled 1960s Dylan. That guy had the songwriting game sussed, too.
lwj
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