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This is difficult. I, too, change my list daily. Here tis’ (in no particular order and sorry, it’s over 5)
Are You Alright
Which Will
Passionate Kisses
Hot Blood (Can someone tell me how to get this unstuck from my head?)
2 Kool 2 Be Forgotten
Greenville
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Those 3 Days
Unsuffer Me (Live, oh my goodness)
EssenceI should also mention Honey Bee. It’s probably too early to add this to a “favorite 5” list but that song was pretty great. Curious to see that album cover!
Very tough, here they are for today, tomorrow this list could be radically different
Side of the Road
Ventura
Everything Has Changed
Blue
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (That “Hey hey” she gives….shivers down my spine…)It’s almost a sin to rank them. Crescent City, I Lost It, Changed the Locks, Right in Time, Righteously, Fruits of My Labor, Learning How to Live, Mama You Sweet, Passionate Kisses, Sharp Cutting Wings, Am I Too Blue, Those Three Days,Sundays, Pineola, Out of Touch, Essence, Are You Alright?, Get Right With God, Jackson, Lonely Girls, Sharp Cutting Wings, Which Will, Maria, Lines Around Your Eyes, Overtime, Sidewalks of the City, Car Wheels, Honey Bee, Minneapolis, Jailhouse Tears, Like a Rose, Fancy Funeral, Bus to Baton Rouge, Greenville, etc….. Could all be there next time I write the list.
1. Come On
2. Right in Time
3. Sweet Side
4. Everything Has Changed
5. Broken ButterfliesI also found that I really like running to “Joy”. Like everyone else, it’s hard sticking to just the top 5.
1. Over Time
2. Unsuffer Me
3. Atonement
4. Mama You Sweet
5. Side of the Roadthis was hard, hard, hard!
Hi all. For my first post on this site, I’ll go with these as my favorites:
1. Something About What Happens When We Talk
2. Hot Blood
3. Changed the Locks
4. Drunken Angel
5. I Lost It
6. Crescent CityGreat topic. Hard to answer but I gotta go with these:
Ventura
Lake Charles
Crescent City
Side of the Road
Wrap My Head Around ThatAny one of the following could jump into the top 5 from time to time:
Right in Time
Essence
Pineola
Passionate Kisses
Greenville
West😕 ain’t so easy coz she’s got a lot of tracks that blow/tear up ur mind/soul
I’ve just noticed as Ripley that i enjoy less her “rock” songs even though i used to be a hard/punk rocker 😆@Memphis pearl
@Lake charles
@Jackson
@Bus to baton rouge
@Sweet old worldamong those
…Greenville,am i too blue,big red sun,fancy funeral,still i long for your kiss,side of the road,pineola,reason to cry,louisiana man,rolling along,price to pay,drunken angel,little angel little brother,sidewalks of the city,ventura…1. essence
2. atonement
3. righteously
4. real live bleeding fingers and broken guitar strings
5. come onI could have given many more. It’s tough to give just five.
TOP FIVE…
crescent city
ventura
sharp cutting words
sidewalks of the city
car wheels on a gravel roadOTHER FAVORITES…
mama you sweet
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
lake charles
like a roseMy top five Lucinda Williams songs
1. World without tears
2. Sidewalks of the city
3. Where is my love
4. Still I long for your kiss
5. I lost it [later version]I can’t pick my top 5 songs by Lucinda because the list would change every day of the year…however,
The song that keeps running through my head lately is “Rescue,” from ‘West.’
Lucinda’s last show in StL, she started the evening with this song, and it blew me away.
“Rescue” is not the type of song one would normally associate with the start of a performance, most might think a ‘rocker’ would be better, but the song worked perfectly.
This is an old adage from musician circles…I’ve always heard your best song should be played 3rd, or fourth, in the opening set, not first.
The logic being…when you start to perform, the audience is interested anyway, because they’re finally hearing some music.
By the 3rd or 4th song, the band is getting warmed up and you can rock them with one of your best, or better known, numbers.
I’ve used this principle for years and it always seems to work.
I’m not saying this to belittle “Rescue,” because it’s probably my fav song off ‘West,’ but it’s certainly not one of her better known songs.
I’m sure a few people in the audience only had one or two cd’s by Lucinda, so they were waiting for the more recognizable songs…like ‘Car
Wheels..Righteously..etc.’But, I love the song ‘Rescue.’ As a guy, the song seems to tell women that happiness is within yourself, and don’t expect men to supply that happiness for you…you have to do it.
I don’t have the lyrics in front of me, so I’m paraphrasing..
“What can he do? Tie some ribbons in your hair, tell you that he’ll always care, that’s all he can do.”
Sorry folks, but I just CANNOT put myself through the agnst and pain of picking 5 songs, and as others have siad before me it would probably change from day to day anyway.
Thought I would like to pick up on Stan`s point about the order of songs, and it is a very valid point, not only for live shows, but on cd`s as well, it is usually around the 4 or 5 song mark that people may begin to lose interest when listening to a CD, and I use Bruce Springsteen here to illustrate my point, on many of his records he makes track 6 the one to sustain interest, examples that sring to mind are BTR, with BTR at track 5, Darkness, with Promised Land at track 6,18 Tracks, with Loose Ends at track 6. I know that both Lu and Bruce put a lot of thought into their setlists.
Nobody cares what you have to say anymore.
What’s the matter? Can’t Let Go?
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