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1 Real Love
2 Steal Your Love
3 2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten [written in Knoxville one New Year’s Day–Lu makes a big deal of the junebug vs. hurricane line, perhaps in response to a nice blurb in Metro Pulse newspaper about this issue]
4 Tears of Joy
5 Concrete & Barbed Wire
6 Jailhouse Tears
7 People Talkin’
8 Out of Touch
9 Little Rock Star
10 Essence
11 Come On
12 Changed the Locks
13 Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
14 Honeybee
15 Atonement
16 Joy/Riders on the Storm
17 Righteously
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18 Are You Down
19 I Live My Life
20 For What It’s Worth
21 It’s a Long Way to the Top. . . .Great night, though Lucinda’s mind was partly on the debate in Oxfordtown: turns out, though I didn’t see it obviously, that that event was held in a building Lucinda has played before, the Ford Center on the Ole Miss campus. She said she was anxious to find out the “results” of the debate, and clearly “For What It’s Worth” (first time live for me) nodded in that direction. The bus count is now three (one Lu bus; one Buick 6 bus; one crew bus), but it’s a shame they weren’t parked back of the Tennessee Theatre by the old Presbyterian graveyard. Since my first ever Lu show (May 2001) was at this theatre, and I got to talk to Lucinda for an extended period of time there in April 2007, it was a bit of a letdown to troop to the Bijou Theatre this time. But things were good, the crowd attentive, Lucinda on fire. Thanks to Inside Job for posting the Asheville setlist, which was shaken up a fair amount in Knoxville as can be seen. Who’s making North Charleston?
@stoger wrote:
2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten [written in Knoxville one New Year’s Day–Lu makes a big deal of the junebug vs. hurricane line, perhaps in response to a nice blurb in Metro Pulse newspaper about this issue]
Details? Link? I Googled to no avail.
Thanks,
Tom
It’s nice to see in this cyber age that good old newsprint trumpts googling and links sometimes. I’ll just type the blurb in; it’s written by Chris Barrett, who I think is a freelancer rather than a Metro Pulse editor or staff writer.
“How best to prepare for a new Lucinda Williams recording? Little Honey, album number 10 for Williams, is scheduled to arrive on OCt. 14. Williams writes songs and makes music from which it’s difficult to keep your distance. Her stories, elegies, rants, come-ons, break-up, serenades, and fictional musical memoirs are not universal. Still, similar to the way Raymond CArver could conjure the next-door neighbor’s family with four words about a withered azalea, Williams drops just enough hints and details to make you think maybe, seriously, that guy behind you in line at the Auto Zone this morning might have been the loser ex she’s singing about. It’s rarely easy listening, because you become invested in the lives and deaths of the people she sings about. And the people she sings about don’t get the kinds of lives that are typically set to music. They get real lives and everything that comes with them.
“Back when people were shorter and lived near the water, Lucinda Williams spoke to me by phone in order to help me with a Metro Pulse concert posting very similar to this one. The recording of the moment was called Sweet Old World. She laughed and gave me a lot of shit because my first question was, ‘Are you OK’? She said, ‘They’re just songs. You don’t think people asked Flannery O’Connor that allthe time, do you? “Are you OK?”
“Maybe they should have, but that’s beside the point. The five fine albums between Sweet Old World and Little Honey chronicle the substantial progress of an artist and a person. Persistent threads of personal loss and hopelessness have given way to hope and humor, of all things. Ten years ago, on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Williams sang about ‘JUnebug versus hurricane.’ If she pulls that one out this week at the Bijou, there is much to suggest that these days Williams identifies a lot less with the junebug.”
by Chris Barrett, Metro Pulse Sept. 25, 2008
OK. Carolinas, where are you? It’s a big week for you; let’s hear.
Going tonight to the Belk Theater show in Charlotte. First Lucinda show for me and my wife. Second row. I’ll post you some mess after the show. Hope we’re not asked to sit down. It looks like a rockin’ affair from the 2008 tour set lists.
later, Jonesy
I’ll see you there Jonesy, row BBB center orchestra pit. You are going to have a blast, first timer.
Hey, thanks Stoger, for keyboarding that in by hand, the old fasioned way. Much appreciated. 3 paragraphs worth sharing. Thanks for your own reporting,too. 🙂
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