Collingswood, NJ 5/6

@DDinNJ wrote:

Can’t Let Go
ButterCup
Pineola
Lines Around Your Eyes
Drunken Angel
Burning Bridges
Bitter Memory
GOH20
Lake Charles
Going Where the Lonely Go -from the Merle Haggard Tribute
West Memphis
Dust
Out of Touch
Changed The Locks
Essence
Unsuffer Me
Atonement
Foolishness
Righteously

Rebel Rebel
Should I Stay

Always great seeing The King of the Road.

Dear Queen, Thanks for bailing me out here, as I would have scarce remembered the Haggard title. I think Lu intended to play that a few nights earlier and it never got off the ground; it was nice to get it in Jersey, with a beaming Lu reprising it from the Nashville tribute.

Really the only song that got much of a unique intro was “Atonement,” most notably the mention by name of Harry Dean Stanton in the role of the blind shyster preacher Asa Hawks in the movie version of Wise Blood. She said the Southern Gothic can be “perplexing” to people but went to great lengths to convey her enthusiasm both for Flannery O’Connor and director John Huston’s film treatment of Wise Blood.

Let us hear from you on the Ramshead front.

Feeling none too royal back down on the farm in Tennessee, “stoger”

From Tom:
Since I’ve been mentioning out of the way places and great older theaters The Scottish Rite Theatre is one of the most unique. The place just has a very mysterious vibe and there was story going around that it used to be some secret society thing—like the Masons or something like that. Don’t if it’s true but it definitely has feeling unlike another place we go. But it is definitely is a great sound room with a great intimate layout.
Lu was happy that she finally got to do the Merle Haggard song Going Where The Lonely Go. She had sang it at a big Haggard tribute in Nashville a few weeks ago and fell in love with the song. She had done it with the house band in Nashville so her band had just worked it up. It almost happened in Tarrytown but was not quite ready. I also have to say I think we got more messages and thank yous about this show than any other on this run. It really is great to get those and we appreciate them. We have had such a great run going to so many places we really love and this was no exception.

@DDinNJ wrote:

The venue is an old Masonic Temple which was vacant for years, and was one of the creepiest places in town.

Spoken like a native daughter of that burgh/township. . .