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Real solid show at the Keswick here’s the setlist:
I Just Wanted To See You So Bad
Happy Woman Blues
People Talking
Circles and X’s
Can’t Let Go
Drunken Angel
Passionate Kisses (brief false start to adjust capo)
Greenville (2 electrics, stand up bass…totally f’n awesome)
Jackson
Fruits Of My Labor
Tears of Joy
Real Love
Essence
Littel Rock Star
Real Live Bleeding Fingers
Unsuffer Me
Come On
Honey Bee
Righteously
(encore break)
Disgusted (Butch wearing the “Joy” metal vest)
Things Used To Do (Guitar Slim)
Joy
Long Way to the Top
(second encore break)
Billie JoeSaw but did not get a setlist (middle aged guys apparently at distinct disadvantage to cute girls in this regard)…on the written setlist but not played… to the best of my memory…Something About, Atonement, Motherless Children and the planned second encore was to be Angel.
Buick 6 set contained Pipeline, Marquee Moon, a Zep medley at the end and a pretty cool Butch drum solo.
Soundcheck which you could hear clear as a bell on the walk from the lot to the Keswick Tavern contained I Lost It, with lyrics from someone other than Lu (maybe Butch). Nice spending a couple hours at the tavern chatting with a practicing musican (something like Dave Emmi), while inhaling pints. Good times, hope you dug the show!
As always great, great sound at the Keswick. One of the better venues to catch a show. Nailed a great ticket (3rd row totally DFC). A couple pair of enthusiastic chicks on the aisle, rest of the front of the center pit section was (how to say this delicately) more liable to be the parents of the kind of folks I expect to find front and center tomorrow at Montclair. But they were attentive, and hung in there.
Lu very focused, did not seem to be relying as much on the lyric book, pair of low cut black pants showing a sliver of midriff. Band seemed happy, I was watching Chet crack a smile as he fired up the feedback on Rock Star. No pedal steel played all night.
On to Montclair, planning to be in roughly the same spot.
@Lefty wrote:
Nice report, V. Thanks.
Yes, indeed – thank you. Looking forward to your report from Montclair.
Tom
thanks Vis. Great report. Acoustics at the Keswick are excellent (saw her there with the wonderful Charlie Louvin in sept 07), but the formal seating creates a more sedate crowd. It’ll be interesting to see how/if the energy changes tonight with standing GA on the floor. Looking forward to a great show at the “new” Wellmont. If I see the middle-aged guy reaching for the setlist, I’ll say hi! 😛
Great setlist and comments. I’ve always worked under the philosophy that cute girls and/or “enthusiastic chicks” trump my middle-aged frame and visage when setlists get passed out, so no worries there. Probably was Butch belting out the likes of “if I give my heart/do you promise/not to break it” during soundcheck: Flappy used to do a pretty mean “You’re my Prince Charming” himself, back in the day. Here’s hoping you’ll get a “sliver of midriff” from our frontwoman again tonight in Montclair, whether you are up front, down below, standing, seated, or faking a handicap to get a side angle.
Lefty, you making Montclair? Full report please, starting at merch table and radiating outward. . .
Stoger, I’ll be attending Montclair tonight and Peekskill tomorrow. I suspect that “visions” will post tonight’s setlist before I can navigate the bus and train and subway back to my hotel computer in Manhattan.
Delayed response, stoger – – sorry. My one and only for this leg will be Rochester on 3/14. I’ll have my trusty(?) pen & notepad with me. Good reporting on a number of shows, I might add. Thanks, gang.
Review from Philly Inquirer:
A night of rocking country
By David R. Stampone
For The Inquirer
Ten tunes into Lucinda Williams’ sold-out Keswick Theater concert Friday, the satisfied crowd might have thought it had heard the theme of the show.
Undeniably one of America’s greatest living songwriters, the intermittently acoustic-guitar-strumming Williams had intently swayed through track after compelling track, mostly slower country-tinged numbers assaying unrequited love or flat-out tragedy. (“Drunken Angel” is the latter, a poetic 1998 lament for murdered tunesmith Blaze Foley). Even the set’s second selection, “Happy Woman Blues,” the folkishly chugging title track from the 56-year-old auteur’s second album (1980), was ultimately downhearted: “Tryin’ hard to be a happy woman/ But sometimes life just overcomes me.”
But not even halfway through the 24-song set, these countrified ditties gave way to more rocked-out songs, peaking with an encore set that offered the 1,300 listeners a closing vintage AC/DC cover, “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll).”
Maybe there was an early hint of music to come in Williams’ solo reading of “Passionate Kisses,” her Grammy-winning 1988 song that first brought her greater attention via Mary Chapin Carpenter’s hit cover: “Is it too much to demand?/ I want a full house and a rock-and-roll band.”
The dark-haired woman in the black leather jacket at center stage had that, in the form of the versatile Buick 6, Williams’ regular backing band. Perhaps energized by the arrival of new guitarist Eric Schermerhorn (replacing longtime member Doug Pettibone), the lethal, dual-guitar four-piece fired off at will Friday. Indeed, as on “Real Love” – a romance-achieved celebratory rocker off Williams’ ninth album, last October’s upbeat Little Honey – many tunes had Schermerhorn and his six-string compadre Chet Lyster squaring off like a tasty roots-rock version of Television’s art-punk ax-slingers Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd.
The guitarists’ stinging bluesy leads and spectral quavers gave Williams’ material a palpable potency that made her repeatedly praise the room’s good sound. After delivering such encore covers as Guitar Slim’s “Things I Used to Do” and Lil’ Son Jackson’s “Disgusted” (featured on her 1978 debut), she returned to uncoil a country-funk take on Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 classic “Ode to Billie Joe.”
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090309_A_night_of_rocking_country.html
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