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High Road Touring has just added the following show:
Tue, Aug 18 ’09 (7:30PM) – Los Angeles, CA – 75% Special Guest – Greek Theatre – w/ Elvis Costello
Tom
@Lefty wrote:
“75% Special Guest” ❓
Yeah, not sure exactly what that means – it is directly from High Road Touring’s show list. For most of Lu’s shows in the list, it says “100% Headliner” in this column, so I don’t know if, for this show, it means Lu is not the headliner, or if she is not playing the full headlining set, or what…
Tom
Yeah, who knows at this point – it may be just Lu making a scheduled guest appearance for some songs during an Elvis Costello headlining show. I checked his fan club site – no mention of this show. Pollstar.com has no mention of it either, but it does fit in nicely, sandwiched between two shows they do have listed: Mon 08/17/09, Saratoga, CA, The Mountain Winery & Wed, 08/19/09, Livermore, CA, The Concerts At Wente Vineyards.
Tom
Indeed, an interesting one-off. Here is ECs touring band for the summer called “The Sugarcanes:”
* Jim Lauderdale – guitar, vocals
* Jerry Douglas – dobro
* Mike Compton – mandolin
* Stuart Duncan – fiddle, banjo
* Dennis Crouch – bass
* Jeff Taylor – accordionNot too bad and boy howdy, this listener can’t wait to hear EC revisit some of his country material off of Almost Blue along with some of the classics that he wrote back in the day–especially with this band of Americana Vets. Maybe even The Big Light not to mention the countless others from this prolific writer. He has a great way to retool his work, which is so uncommon in the world of new wave musicians (with the likes Nick Lowe aside)… I am confident that LWs is serving as an opener with a few duets to follow. Gosh knows that Jim L knows her music!
Well, regardless of the actual format of the show, one can rest assured “Jailhouse Tears” will be played!
Tom
David,
Jerry Douglas on dobro, of Union Station fame. “The best dobro player in the world” says Alison. Awesome, I’ll have to find a nearby show. That Lauderdale guy’s not too shabby either.
Steve
Steve:
Elvis Costello (whose real name is Declan McManus) has a long-time trademark of fiddling with the best of them. Whether it was in his first days with Clover as a backing band along with Nick Lowe producing his first slew of albums (9) or playing incredible one-offs (Sweetwater with the other Jerry and the infamous flu-show with George Jones at the Ryman), this Elvis has always had a knack of showing up on-stage with some of the best. The list could go on and on vis-a-vis recent happenings at the last two Hardly Strictly shows in San Fran framed against world mini-tours that documents his ongoing love affairs with The Brodski Quartet and the sound of the New Orleans delta/Allen Toussaint, he really has an ear for all things Americana. One of my favorite tours was the singing song book run with his Rude 5 band back in the 80’s. Anyway, it’s nice to always see and hear him change the way he does things very much in the same vein as The Grateful Dead played with their music along with their choices for stunning cover songs (What’s even better is his ability to pick-pocket an unknowing singer-songwriter’s catalog while sharing the same stage–he’s done this before with LWs so I am confident that he will go way beyond the predictable “Jailhouse Tears” when the two of them are together in a few weeks…). Although he is now more of a sophisticate (married Diana Krall at Elton John’s English estate), he still has a way of bending down to hand us common Americana folk an American Beauty from time to time. Maybe he is The King of America. Either way, his Aim is True while he has never lost his status as This Year’s Model. What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
Thanks,
David
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