Lu walks on and sits down “like an old blues lady”
1 Can’t Let Go
*2 Real Live Bleeding Fingers. . . [Lu reveals more about her medical issues than ever, referencing the stroke-affected Jessie Mae Hemphill and the health-conscious Patty Smith, urging audience to get our annual “wellness check”]
3 Drunken Angel [with a long Blaze intro]
4 Fruits of My labor [with a discussion of the potency of her cough spray before]
*5 Good Souls [with an afterword about how singing that songs helps keep her spirits up]
6 You Can’t Rule Me
7 Essence [with Charlie Sexton again]
8 Righteously [Lu stands up for the duration], with CS
9 Take Me to the River [with CS, and Lu rightly attributes the song to Al Green]
10 Joy [with CS]
* tour debut
During Isbell’s set, he does the Truckers’ song “Goddamn Lonely Love,” saying he was determined to “write a Lucinda Williams song” with that one.
It’s getting better and better. Little Rock, anyone?