Cains Ballroom May 10th

Is there a presale???

Thanks!

CRAZY!!! Wilco is playing The Cains on Sunday, May 8th and now Lucinda. Man, I need for a car repair bill to be very low today and hope I can make both shows from OKC. It’s only 100 miles, but going to work at 0600 can be brutal.

I’ll always be a Dreaming Man, that’s my problem.
— Neil Young

I hate you guys.

Wish I could be there Sunday & Tuesday. I wish ya’ll a blessed week from 100 miles down the turnpike.

Dreaming Man

@ParkerCA wrote:

6 days and counting til the show! Wilco on Sunday and Lu on Tuesday. Going to be an EXCELLENT week. 😀 😀 😀

same here, man. have fun 😀

@ParkerCA wrote:

ahh man, wish you could make it. I was looking forward to meeting you.

Spot on, Parker–nice meeting you and your wife, also coffee4throad who handed along a fine gift CD and knows his Dylan in and out.

“Ventura” was a tour/Blake debut I think, beautiful.

“Technical difficulties” plagued the start of “I Lost It,” so Lu went back to the well on the bumper sticker/I found it background intro as a bridge to the song.

Between song 14 and 15, Lu took time to reference multiple names among the opener-de-jour (my phrase not hers) pattern of this tour. Jesse Aycock (last night’s) was someone she was listening to in LA and on the bus prior to the Cain’s show; she seemed delighted that he was chosen to open. Amos Lee was plugged (much applause) for the future, and Erika Wennestrom of the Heartless Bastards was cited as an example of a successful (and more) recent-past opener.

All that said, I wouldn’t call the atmosphere or the crowd the most sterling of the tour. When I can mill and roam and chat and return up front seconds before Lu’s walk-on and still easily nab a rail-hugging spot (stage-Sutton), something’s amiss (though no complaints about the perch). There was the guy behind me who delighted in informing everyone that Lucinda was 63 (!?!) years old; there was the third guy in line who announced that his first exposure to Lu was Talladega Nights (no shame in that, but I thought I was a late bloomer, damn). Parker and wife, coffee4 and I were hustled out of the house less than 2 minutes after “Get Right with God” ended, landing on the North Main sidewalk to observe an already dimmed venue sign (which never had a marquee with performers’ names to start with). All kudos to Lu’s team and crew–but the local boys were less than impressive. I don’t care how historic the house is (and yes, the stars out front in the pavement with names like Cindy Walker and Tommy Duncan were nice to see, as were the framed photos inside of Bob Wills and so on), I wouldn’t call Cain’s a top-drawer venue for its fans.

I felt a little guilty near night’s end that I hadn’t paid much heed to Jesse Aycock and his sideman earlier, given Lu’s plug. But there you have it. The holding pen of a smoking area had a nice angle on the signage and on dusky downtown Tulsa. I could make repeated trips to the bleachers to chat up Parker. Crowd density is desired from one perspective of course, but sparsity keeps it pleasant in another sense.