Belated N.O. HOB Setlist

OK, knowing I’d probably need to be the one to do this hours later, I took some notes–inspired perhaps by the pad and pen of West Words. And thanks to toverby for posting the Memphis setlist, albeit in an even LESS timely manner than this 😀 😀

1 Pineola
2 People Talkin’
3 The Night’s Too Long
[brief interlude of Lu gushing “This is too much damn fun” and “so good I almost can’t stand it”]
4 2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten
5 Fruits of My Labor
6 Concrete & Barbed Wire
7 I Lost It
8 Well Well Well
9 Crescent City
10 Lake Charles [solo]
11 Side of the Road [with Blake]
12 Born to Be Loved
13 Steal Your Love
14 Atonement [followed by a nod to the artwork in the house as related to the imagery of this song]
15 Unsuffer Me
16 Real Live Bleeding Fingers…
17 Changed the Locks
18 Honeybee
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19 Nothing in Ramblin’ [solo]
20 Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
21 Get Right with God [with CC Adcock & Charlie Sexton]
22 Joy [ ” ]

Yes, one song and one song only from the new record. Anybody seen much of that lately from artists on tour, presumably promoting their latest? And how about that segue from Memphis Minnie to Skip James? When Charlie Sexton joined Adcock on stage for part of the opener, I braced myself for mucho Essence tracks and his main-set walk-out, but two from that record and his gunslinging encore work did very nicely. He brought along Shannon McNally to the show, who hovered beautifully afterwards but didn’t get on stage–her first Lu show, she told me! This was a Mama as Happy show like almost no other. Late in the set Lu semi-apologized for not talking much between songs (“We’ve got this time thing,” by which she seemed to mean not house curfew but the hellatiously broad state of Texas), but when have I seen her happier? In her mind, she might have wanted to counter the daylight shorter set of the mass Fest the day before (though there was plenty to like there too); this one was special. thanks to West Words for making it more possible for me. And speaking of “time thing,” I’m still three hours away from the Austin City Limits, so. . . .