Dallas, TX Kessler Theater 1/15/13

@HappyLuManBlues wrote:

First time poster, long time lurker. Wow. What a show in Big D. The Kessler is fabulous. Lu said it is now one of her favorite venues. On with the Setlist…

Can’t Let Go
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Pineola
Bus To Baton Rouge
Little Angel Little Brother (false start, then Doug switched to pedal steel, beautiful)
Place In My Heart (new song)
Trying To Get To Heaven (Dylan cover, a couple false starts as Lu forgot the chords, worth the wait)
Blue (requested this on Twitter today, so happy she played it!)
Fancy Funeral
Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams)
Drunken Angel
Something Wickid This Way Comes (new song)
Sweet Side
Real Live Bleeding Fingers
Changed The Locks
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Nothing In Rambling
Joy
Honey Bee
Kiss Like Your Kiss (dedicated to Doug and his wife in honor of their 1 year anniversary)
This Old Guitar (John Denver)
Blessed
Get Right With God

A truly magical night. Now if I could somehow get into Friday’s show. Any extras? I just can’t get enough.

That was a fine report, yes, and I hope somehow you get in to Friday’s show for your efforts here.

A few addenda:

After Pineola, Lu said “we’re covering all the Southern areas tonight.” I later found out that both Frank Stanford’s sister and his niece were in the audience–first time Lu had seen any of them since the funeral (mid-70’s?). The niece lives in Dallas.

Lu deemed “Little Angel” a “good choice” for setlist after finally finishing it; she seemed surprised that Doug moved to pedal steel, but it was mighty fine.

“Place in my Heart” was deemed “ragged,” but Lu is “proud” of it. She made a crack about its similarity to a movie title, causing me to get a Sally Field image 👿 I had trouble erasing.

The false start on the Dylan cover was shrugged off and credited to both Doug and Lu being Aquarius-es. “We help each other,” she continued.

Hank was mentioned a song early, in front of “Fancy Funeral.” She said it was hard to play; upon another false start, she turned to Doug and said “We make a fine pair, don’t we?” Afterwards, she mentioned Uncle Cecil and Aunt Verna, who went against Lu’s mother’s wishes (“She wanted a simple cremation thing”). Lu mentioned the figures of eleven or twelve grand as the funeral costs, noting that she ended up not attending the service in Monroe, LA (“my mother didn’t want to be buried there”). Finally, she compared the situation to Gram parsons and the attempted cremation by his road manager Phil K. [Eric-dont’ get any ideas 😀 ]

Blaze got called a “dumb f _ _ _” in front of Drunken A, and Gram parsons received his second nod of the night.

Tom Overby’s “mind” was credited on “Something Wicked,” for reminding Lu that Shakespeare made the original allusion in the title.

Book pages had to be brought out and added for “Sweet Side,” even though it was on the printed setlist.

“I think the whole country has the blues right now” (Lu in front of the Skip James cover).

Kenneth Brian did a fine six-song opener, with Travis ? as sideman and Lillie Mae and her brother around for certain songs. He told where he wrote some of the songs (e.g., Balstrop, TX and Savannah, GA), made nice references to the Allman Bros, the Alabama Tide football team etc between songs. The songs themselves referenced such places as Joshua Tree and austin. They met Lu at the Roxy not long ago. I look forward to more opening sets, from this young man, who, along with Eilen Jewell, is a client of Hello Cleveland Mgmt!

Welcome HappyLu, to the friendly forum, and congratulations for coming out of lurk mode 😀 .

Great reports and I love the color commentary!

@tonyg wrote:

I might go the other way and enter lurker mode. 😕

Is that a threat? 😯

Or a promise? 😉 😈 😀 😆

Tom

@tonyg wrote:

Lurkers don’t answer. 😆

Or post…

Tom