Hallo, Deutschland!

@Juergen_B wrote:

Lucinda’s concert in Hamburg must be a disappointment when I believe in this review (in German):
http://www.mopo.de/2007/20071108/hamburg/kultur/lucinda_williams.html
http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/11/08/814027.html

quite frankly, i found it disappointing too. not because they didn’t play well or weren’t in a good mood or something, because they were, as it seemed, but i found the song selection quite tedious. and the playing of the drummer was unfitting (at least in the front it sounded, as if his aim was to destroy the songs – then again, they had sound problems in the beginning… and later they rocked hard, so, i guess, it was fitting for that purpose; during the encore it sounded alright)
now go and hate me.
i still love lucinda.
and the crowd seemed pleased. i found it sad really, when she went at one point “i cannot be a folk singer anymore, because people want me to rock out”, or something between those lines.
it’s not that i expected her to play only songs like “blue”, “i envy the wind” or “ventura”, but some more variety would have been nice. and i wish they would have used that lovely looking pedal steel, at least once. same goes for the cello.

one thing i learned, i won’t have a look at setlists anymore (i even tried to not look at it that night – but it was so tempting)… ’cause according to the setlist it could have been a brilliant night.

well, maybe i expected too much after the wonderful show in the same place in 2003 (and in berlin, the following night).