Minneapolis Shows

Another great show, and another great set list. A mistake by a decade on the timing of CWOAGR, but I still catch myself putting 19_ _ on my checks sometime…. 😀

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/116666984.html

Lucinda Williams changes it up on Night 2
Posted by Chris Riemenschneider

Last update: February 22, 2011 – 11:58 AM

By Jules Ameel / Special to Star Tribune
Aside from the acoustic format, the terrific encore with Randy Weeks and the horrible weather (“I’m humbled you all came out to see me when it’s like this,” she said), the second of Lucinda Williams’ three nights at the Dakota proved to be significantly different from the first. She mixed up her set list as earnestly as the Dakota bartenders mixing martinis. And it sounded like she was better settled into the intimate room on Monday.

It really was an intoxicating affair, one that harked back to a five-night stand I caught by the singer in 2006 at the Electric Lounge in Austin, Texas, where she had us sit on the floor as she “greased the wheels” of some of her songs that would make up her “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” album. Of course, that disc would take another two-plus years to complete, whereas her new one “Blessed” is for sure coming out next Tuesday. But I do believe “Blessed” is up to the same level of greatness as “Car Wheels,” as evidenced by the passionate and poetic new material heard on Monday (and she actually didn’t play several of the best songs on the album).

Among the highlights were “The Ugly Truth,” which she rightfully described as “the other side of the coin” from the joyful “Plan to Marry,” plus the evocative title track to “Blessed” and the absolutely chilling “Copenhagen,” which she wrote about the sudden death of her manager Frank Callari. The montage of older city/highway songs near the start of the set flowed together like a beautiful road trip, too, especially “Ventura” — although Lucinda admited afterward that the lines about puking “really aren’t appropriate for the dinner crowd.” Here’s the whole set list.

Are You Alright / Ventura / Big Red Sun / Jackson / Crescent City / Bus to Baton Rouge / Born to Be Loved / Copenhagen / Over Time / Make the World Go Away (Hank Cochran cover) / Sweet Love / Plan to Marry / Ugly Truth / Concrete & Barbed Wire / I Lost It / Buttercup / Blessed / Honey Bee ENCORE: Minneapolis / Can’t Let Go (when Randy Weeks joined in on electric guitar) / Changed the Locks / Joy

@stoger wrote:

I think I can take it from there. . . .

With some assistance, of course…

Tom

@LWjetta wrote:

@stoger wrote:

@Lafayette wrote:

Minneapolis looks treacherous. Safe travels, everyone!
INDEED, BUT I TRUST THE NEW ENGLISH WILL NAVIGATE THE ROADS OUT OF TOWN TOWARD WISCONSIN IN FINE FETTLE COUPLE OF DAYS FROM NOW. . .TOM, CARE TO SHARE THAT STORY OF LATE ARRIVAL INTO MN?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41696492/ns/us_news/

BTW…loved the NYC story, WW.

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lwj

😮

@LWjetta wrote:

Great You Tube . Changed the Locks followed by Joy with Tony? and Erik? along with Randy.

Gotta be Tony Glover on harmonica. Right ? stoger.
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TONY GLOVER
of Koerner, Ray & Glover
When Lucinda Williams released her groundbreaking Rough Trade album [in 1988], music man Peter Jesperson talked First Ave manager Steve McClellan into booking the then-unknown. When I heard her first set at the Entry, it literally sent chills up my spine. I sat in for the next set, an intense experience. Next time she came back, it was on a split bill with Ray & Glover. Her label prez came to town for the gig and wound up signing us to the label.

She was a frequent flier on the main stage, and a circle was filled out when — à la Hank Williams — she got married there last year, in front of a capacity crowd.
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lwj

Ah those Spanish cities. That Metal Firecracker squeezed its way through the streets of Barcelona, bigsubi, as you well remember. May you witness a form of it plying the avenues of Manhattan come March… .