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A preamble blog to tonight’s concert where the writer remembers meeting Lucinda 40 years ago in Vermont at a writer’s conference with Miller Williams.
Here’s an excerpt.She strummed a few chords. Then she sang.
And for a few minutes the kitchen turned into a honkey-tonk cathedral. Her voice, ascending and descending through octaves the way one knows the rooms of their house in the dark— and it was unlike anything I’d heard before. It was splashed with tinctures of Lorca’s duende and Delta blackstrap molasses, as though wood-smoke, silk and sheet-lightning wove a voice inside a sixteen year old’s throat..
Finally, after finding my own voice and the few words I could construct into a whole sentence, I asked her name.
“Lucinda, Lucinda Williams.”
I wondered if I would ever hear that name again or if she would forever just keep that gift to herself and a few lost boys sitting on the floors of summer kitchens.
Lucinda Williams
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
8 pm (doors 7:30)
$55
Avalon Theatre
40 E Dover St
Easton, MD 21601
410 822 7299Some great artwork.[attachment=0:12lzcgih]Lucinda_Forty_years.jpg[/attachment:12lzcgih]
And a link to the full article.
http://chestertownspy.com/2012/08/09/forty-years-a-summer-evening-and-a-guitar/lwj
Very nice, especially the Garcia Lorca reference: Deep Song, “cante jondo” I think in Spanish, is one among many influences upon Lucinda.
Just a little bit more on the blog I posted re: The Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, this took place in August 1961.(Just amazing what you can search for on the Web).I’m not at the office today and enjoy the research.
Here’s a link to a front porch picture of the college while Lucinda and the blog writer were inside sitting on the kitchen floor. Maybe this was Lu’s inspiration to create the “Kitchen Tapes”. 🙂
Obviously Lu would have been only 9 years old in 1961 so she must have met the blog writer at the conference later-say early 1970’s.Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellows posed on the porch of the Little Theatre on Bread Loaf campus, August 1961. Individuals pictured include, rear: Milton White; front row, left to right: Miller Williams, Kaye Starbird Jennison, Robert Frost, Milton Kessler and David Delman.
(Robert Frost passed away two years later)
Here’s the link to the archived photo.Move the down arrow to see the full pic.
http://middarchive.middlebury.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/mnb/id/895/rec/16lwj
An Intimate Duo Evening with Lucinda Williams, featuring Doug Pettibone, Wednesday, August 15th, doors at 7:30, show at 8 pm, Avalon Theatre.
Opening act was a talented singer-songwriter, Matt Blake. He performed a 20 minute set from 8:15-8:35.
Lucinda began her set at 9, and ended at 10:45.Lu on acoustic guitar for all songs.
Setlist:
1. Lake Charles (Lucinda solo)
then all songs with Doug until #19
2. Side of the Road
3. People Talkin’
4. Car Wheels
5. Pineola
6. I Don’t Know How You’re Living
7. Blue
8. Fruits of My Labor
9. Over Time
10. Well Well Well
11. Jailhouse Tears
12. Bitter Memory
13. Crescent City
14. Can’t Let Go
15. Drunken Angel
16. Changed the Locks
17. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
18. Joy
(end main set)
19. I Ain’t Got No Home in This World (Lucinda solo)
20. Passionate Kisses (Lucinda solo)
21. Blessed (Doug returns)A small, historic theater, circa 1926, with reserved seating downstairs and general seating upstairs. Two small bars serving beer and wine. A refreshing change from the clamor and protocols of the Birchmere.
A short, but powerful, thunderstorm rocked the area about 7 PM, and several seats were wet from roof leaks.
@tonyg wrote:
Great report Paul. Matt is the merch guy, yes no?
Different Matt I think, tony–though our merch guy is a multi-tasker. Hell though, it might be the same.
@stoger wrote:
@tonyg wrote:
Great report Paul. Matt is the merch guy, yes no?
Different Matt I think, tony–though our merch guy is a multi-tasker. Hell though, it might be the same.
Will try to get to the bottom of this tomorrow night in “Smallbany” ❗ 😕
Matt was introduced as a singer-songwriter from Austin, who was born in a small town somewhere close to Easton. There were sarcastic comments about him escaping the town at an early age, but I was not attuned to the local humor. I just googled him, and the following myspace page is an accurate depiction of the performer and his songs:
http://www.myspace.com/mattblakecomThat’s Matt the Merch guy for sure. He told me he lives in Austin, as I think all of Eric’s guys do.
Why that sly dog. “Multi-tasker” doesn’t begin to capture his essence. Hopefully, he got to sell/sign his own record simultaneously at set break. Wish I had hung for this one. . .
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