Brownfield 7/31

This place was literally in the middle of nowhere. Despite leaving home in plenty of time to get there for 5 pm cocktails, I arrived at 6, after spending an hour driving around the wilds of Maine and through the woods trying to find the venue. It consists of a couple of old type farm/barn structures, 5 miles down a dirt road, off of another road that no one ever heard of. Dirt parking lots. One building housed the bar/cocktail lounge, merchandise area, and the other one was the performance space. Both rooms were tightly packed with with middle aged and older backwoods Maine folks, like a Pepperidge Farm commercial. We had a drink and then were seated based on order of arrival; luckily Tim arrived early and scored a good table. Very pretty setting. Lu hit the stage at 8:06 pm. Huge changes to the setlist. The usual stories about the familiar songs. Lu said it occured to her she might need to change the title of I Need Protection. Funny. There was a pedal steel guitar onstage, unused. There was a false start on Ain’t Got No Home, wrong key. Lu handled it with grace. All musicians killed it on all songs. Show over at 10 pm. I drove home for 2 hours in a pouring rainstorm, again getting lost. Fun stuff.

Back tonight for more fun in the woods.

I see now that I went in the wrong way on the dirt road. Had I gone it the correct end, it is about a block in. Oh well. 😮