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Thanks for posting this Dave. What a great show! She and the boys really had their acts together tonight. I was fortunate to have attended all 3 shows. I truly enjoyed every minute. I loved the format and the venue. Tonight’s show was simply outstanding.
Go Dawgs!!
Good work on the setlist–and nice to meet you, mark. No errata, just a few addenda: After “People Talkin’,” Lu mused that she started writing that song in Chicago. She called West “my longsuffering album.” Before “Real Love,” she once again debunked the idea that it was about Tom–or that most of the songs on Little Honey are about Tom. “Real Love” was said to reflect the “next to last catastrophe” prior to Tom’s entrance into her life. “Happy Woman Blues” featured one of the longest intros in the annals of Lu-dom, 7-8 maybe 10 minutes, with the villain being a certain Mike Nerko (sp?) who took the rights to the record and did with them what he will. “Hot Blood” was satisfying a three-night running request, as Lu worried that her “rode hard and put up wet” voice might not do the song justice. It did.
Who’s taking the Amtrak to St. Louie?
I was able to review the show on WGN radio as a guest on “The Steve and Johnnie Show” from 2 to 2:30 a.m. You can find the review I wrote on my site – http://www.ChicagoConcertgoers.com. (It’s on the message board in the Concert Reviews section.)
Be sure to also check out the Top 5 lists on the home page. Lucinda kindly contributed a list of the Top 5 records she’s currently listening to.
Looks like night 3 was a great one, too. I would’ve loved to hear Ventura and Those Three Days, both of which seem to have been a bit neglected in the past couple of years. And Hot Blood? I bet that was awesome. Also nice to see that she broke out a few less-often-played songs from the last two albums (such as Everything Has Changed, West, Well Well Well, and Real Love) to go along with the standbys like Come On, Unsuffer Me, and Honey Bee.
I wish I could’ve been there last night, as I wish I could’ve been there on Wednesday, but I never planned on attending last night’s show in the first place so it doesn’t sting quite as much. I’m finally getting over the flu that kept me from Wednesday’s show, thankfully.
I wish I had been at last night’s show as well, Stu! I gave my ticket for Thursday’s show to the guy standing next to me Wednesday night.
Lu’s voice is unique but it is sounding more smooth lately (must be her sipping honey doing the trick), but hey, Janis Joplin had a unique voice too…
Thanks for the setlist and show updates to all that attended!
Nice to have met you too Stoger. I might see you St. Louis. For those of you making the trip, Obama’s favorite pizza (PI) is right next door to The Pageant.
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Nice to have met you too Stoger. I might see you St. Louis. For those of you making the trip, Obama’s favorite pizza (PI) is right next door to The Pageant.
Blue state (or blue zone within red-tending state) pizza and GA Lu: Let’s Kill Saturday Night, as Robbie Fulks might say. Too bad no Chi town dignitaries on stage last two nights, but no complaints.
I failed to mention in my report that the arc of my Chicago Thursday included going straight from a C.D. Wright poetry reading at the Art Institute auditorium downtown to the Lucinda Williams concert at Park West. Somewhere, the ghost of Frank Stanford is pondering all that. Practically Wright’s first words when she took the mike? “I made a playlist, but I don’t always stick to it.”
Truly a memorable night. I was directly in front of Lu’s mic, and saw the setlist and knew it was going to be a great show.
Lu seemed to be in a much better mood than she was on Wednesday; not that Wednesday she was in a bad mood, just quiet and didn’t talk a whole lot. Thursday was different, and she talked on and on about how great of an audience we all were: “a great listening audience and a great rocking audience, the best of both worlds,” as she put it 😀
Toward the end I shouted out, “Give us a fourth night!” Lu smiled big and began to say something, but David was trying to say something to her so she was distracted. She seemed to like the idea, though 😀
I’ve never been able to meet Lu after a show, but I crossed paths with Chet and shook his hand on the way out the door.
Awesome, awesome two nights (I wasn’t at the first night). I think they were two of the best performances I’ve seen from Lu.
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