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1 Side of the Road [with Doug]
2 Real Love [before which Lu says this day is “momentous. . . world-changing”]
3 Steal Your Love
4 Tears of Joy [with much Obamatalk beforehand, the “sexiest” candidate in Lu’s adult voting life, etc.]
5 People Talkin’
6 Jailhouse Tears
7 The Night’s Too Long
8 Lake Charles
9 Sweet Side
10 Those Three Days [but she just can’t get it off the ground, multiple starts, no rhythm, abandoned]
10a Essence
11 Come On [with much profane venom beforehand about the song’s subject]
12 Changed the Locks
13 Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
14 Honeybee
15 Joy/Riders on the Storm/Joy
16 Righteously
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17 Disgusted [with Tony Glover on harmonica]
18 Hard Time Killing Floor Blues “
19 Come to Me Baby “
20 It’s a Long Way to the Top [dedicated to our 44th president]thanks from me too! did carrie come out and play with lucinda? or did lucinda sing mask of moses with carrie?
lisaCarrie did a very short set, maybe 6 songs. She did not join Lucinda on stage, although Carrie remained at the show, and chatted with folks afterwards. Carrie’s set was followed by the regular Buick 6 set, so Lucinda did not take stage till 10 o’clock. Great show, especially with both “Side of the Road” and “The Night’s Too Long” on the same set.
yay paul, glad you went to that show, i hope she’s still going to do those two songs in california!
lisaThought it was amazing for most of the show.
Started fantastic. Buick 6 may be the best backing band she’s ever played with, although I wasn’t keen on their opening, instrumental set, until they sang Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl”. Great musicians, just not keen on jam bands.
Lucinda’s set was going great until she attempted to play “Those Three Days”.
Just like “Jailhouse Tears” was a stumbling block a couple weeks ago, “Those Three Days” tripped her up. She couldn’t get the vocal tempo right, stopped and started three times before finally giving up and moving onto the next song.
Unfortunately, unlike a couple weeks ago where she was able to rebound after a brief meltdown, she really didn’t regain the momentum for about 30 minutes.
“Changed the Locks” was a casualty…sounded like she just wanted to get through it in record time.
She finally regained the momentum with a good version of “Joy”.
For the encore, she brought out Tony Glover to play for three songs. Lucinda kept talking about how influential those “Koerner, Ray, and Glover” records were.
She said to Tony, “We should make some records together sometime”.
I really felt like I was witnessing something special.
For those of you unfamiliar with Tony Glover, watch the Scorsese Dylan documentary, “No Direction Home”. He is featured throughout the film.
Yep, a good show last night. A definite different vibe to it than the show 2 weeks before, which I thought was incredible, but it was good just the same. The opener Side of the Road with Doug was just wonderful, and things rolled along just great (and more quietly than the previous 1st Ave show), up to the aborted Those Three Days. Like zinovy said, she lost momentum, but she did pull it back together at the end of the set, and Lu seemed so into it in her encore, with those 3 great songs with local blues harp legend Tony Glover and the closer Long Way to the Top.
The set list I snared from the stage afterwards showed Those Three Days, followed by Out of Touch and Little Rock Star (both of which she bypassed) before Essence, and did not list Righteously. And the encore section of the set list also had Marching the Hate Machines and For What Its Worth/Masters of War listed besides the 4 she did play. Carrie Rodriguez was great opening, and I was kind of hoping she would’ve came out to play sometime during Lu’s set. It sure was nice getting the 2 Lucinda shows up here in the span of 2 weeks at First Avenue. Can’t get any better than that.
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