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here is the setlist for cincinnati:
1) real love
2) tears of joy
3) fruits of my labor
4) pineola
5) out of touch
6) little rock star
7) essence
8)real live bleeding fingers and broken guitar strings
9) honey bee
10) joy
11) righteouslyit was a really great night, she sounded great and the band was amazing. there were no false starts at all. i had heard tears of joy last year in louisville and it sounds completely different now, but both versions are great. the only downer of her set was after her first song she did say her new record is not coming out until october.
Kind of a short night??
I saw Lu once in Cincinnati…at the Tall Stacks festival a few years ago, about a year after World Without Tears came out.
thejolo,
Yes it was an awesome concert. I was sitting up in section 800 and during Lucinda’s performance of “Fruits of My Labor” this person named Lafayette comes up to my seat and asks me if I’m Steve, and hands me front row tickets. I showed them to the people I was with and asked how cool was it for someone to come find you and hand you front row tickets.
My mouth is sore because I’ve been smiling so much ever since.I’ve never heard Lucinda sing Honey Bee, so it was awesome to hear Lu and her band rock on this one. Its an upbeat rocking song and got me and the crowd moving and paying attention.
I kept turning around to see what people were doing, and saw the seats and the lawn full, no-one was walking around or chatting, everyone was watching the show. Thanks Tom Overby for your knowledge of the music industry and pairing her up with John.
I think my favorite part of the evening was during “Joy” when Chet Lyster and Doug Pettibone were jamming face to face, body to body. It looked like their guitars were touching. But more importantly it looked like Doug, Chet, David, and Butch were totally enjoying the evening, as I was.
Oh, and Lucinda too.
thats really cool. i was supposed to go with some friends from work who were mellencamp fans, but they all ended up having to cancel at the last minute so i ended up watching lu by myself from the lawn and left right after her set. im sure everyone was looking at me cause i was alone but i dont care lu rocked! i could tell most of the people around me had not heard of her but they really got into her from the beginning of her set. i heard a woman behind me say “i dont know why she is opening for him, i think she is bigger than he is”. made me laugh. i sure hope she makes a stop back through here in the fall.
Nice to hear reports from the road. I agree, Lu and Buick6 seem to be having a great time playing together. Not that it matters, but compared to last year, Lu appears less “tied” to her lyric book. Perhaps the fact that they are playing (basically) the same set every night has something to do with it. Not that I’m complaining, I love it all. With that being said, I do hope, and expect them to mix it up a bit for the Fall Tour. Bring on the dates!!!
It’s good to hear all these reports; being stared down because one is “alone” at a Lu show should be worn for what it is, a badge of honor! But I know what you mean. And the idea that “Lafayette” would temporarily give up his front-row perch for part of Lu’s set to mill around and find a fellow Lu fan–that’s altruism for you. Not sure I would have done the same, but it’s heartening to hear that. . . .
Your welcome on the upgrade Stevarino! I would have love to stayed and chatted with you however, as you know, I was on a mission.
I didn’t exactly give up my front row seat during Lu’s set, just was able to accommodate with a ticket I had from some friends with some of the empty seats. And, I’m a she, not a he ;-). I’m a music lover, and as one who knows, at least to some fans, what it means to watch up close an artist that you admire most, I was happy to help.
I’m posting a review that was written in “City Beat”, a free entertainment weekly magazine, promoting her stop in Cincinnati…a kindred spirit I met at A.J.s Roadhouse last night after the show pointed it out to me. I found it online to share.
http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A145693
Lucinda Williams with John Mellencamp
Wednesday • Riverbend Music CenterIt’s hard to fathom now, but there really was a time when Lucinda Williams was not the iconic Americana artist that she is today.
Ten years ago Williams was a cultish singer/songwriter with a two-decade career and only four albums (on almost as many labels) and a largely undeserved reputation for being a studio perfectionist to show for it. Up to that point, Williams’ only hits had come when other singer/songwriters covered her songs; Williams copped a songwriting Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s turn on “Passionate Kisses.”
Then, in 1998, after an interminable five-year gap between albums, Williams dropped the brilliant, career-defining Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and never looked back. Car Wheels notched significant sales, scored a handful of Grammys, found its way onto critics’ Top 10 lists almost universally and made Williams the household name she had deserved to be all along.
Over the past 10 years, Williams has built steadily on the amazing success of Car Wheels but that growth has come at a significant emotional cost. 2001’s Essence was largely inspired by the end of her longstanding relationship with bassist Richard Price, 2003’s World Without Tears was similarly influenced and last year’s West was a sonic scrapbook dedicated to her recently deceased mother and the end of yet another romantic entanglement.
In the meantime, Williams’ stable label situation with Lost Highway has given her the confidence to tinker with her sound, as she’s branched out to include more and varied elements of Blues, Soul, Rock and Folk into her already engaging Country/Pop palette. For some artists it might sound like a hopeless cliché, but for Lucinda Williams, it’s the straight whiskey truth — after a 30-year career in music, her best work may still be ahead of her. Buy tickets, check out performance times and find nearby bars and restaurants here.
I wish the venue had been described as half full instead of empty. I felt she had a good crowd at 7:30 p.m.
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/ENT03/307240004/1028/ENT
After the tour de force of Mellencamp, it’s almost impossible to pay tribute to the dignified opening set by singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. Playing to a more than half-empty pavilion, she debuted a handful of songs from an album due in October, along with hits such as “Pineola” and “Joy.” The new tunes rock a little harder than her recent work; good news for fans who worried she might get stuck in a slow-tempo groove.
Led by guitar virtuoso Doug Pettibone, the group’s performance offered a peek of the powerhouse that is Williams in a smaller venue. The Riverbend stage seemed to unnerve her a bit, as she continually thanked the faithful for taking their seats in time to hear her play. In truth, it is the fans who should be thanking her for making great music.
“I’ll be yours/Lafayette”–regardless of gender. Thanks for posting all this. And hopefully you’ll be going on the road a bit for some Lu headliners after the Mellencamp run ends in early August?
I sure hope to do some road trips where Lu is headlining. I love road trips and meeting fans! Hopefully, she will be coming thru Cincinnati again or somewhere close soon. She certainly gets a lot of airplay and support on the public radio station I listen to and volunteer at…WNKU 89.7
The afternoon spinmeister at WNKU was at the Cincinnati show and the following day the first song he spun was “Joy” by Lu and then followed up with a Mellencamp one.
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