New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s #1 Sept 15, 2013

@stoger wrote:

Yes, my two-eyed friend, my frames are newly minted.

[transition after song twelve: “We’ve taken the vinyl off the turntable and are going to mix it up now. . . .”]

13 Lake Charles
14 Bus to Baton Rouge
15 Drunken Angel
16 Real Live Bleeding. . .
17 Essence [dancer crashes the photogenic folks up front]
18 Still I Long for your Kiss [dancer, mercifully, retreats]
19 Joy [before which Lu references the recent LA concert “for labor” by mentioning New Orlean Aaron Neville, talking with him there and learning he now calls NYC home]
20 Honeybee
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21 Magnolia
22 Get Right with God [with Susan Cowsill + the whole KBB, including its third drummer in the last week]

The good times did indeed roll, in any language. And don’t forget to rub the Professor Longhair bust/statue for good luck.

I was perusing google before this show, searching for pertinent Lucinda reviews, blogs, etc. and came across this 2007 interview while Lu was promoting West. Stoger, “Essence,” as performed in New Orleans, must bring out the ‘wild thang’ in some women.

A must read. Eyes wide open. 😯

http://chicago.gopride.com/news/interview.cfm/articleid/106384

LW: When I lived in Nashville, I always had one foot out the door. I don’t really have any strong ties there to the South now that my mother’s gone. She lived there for years and years, in New Orleans, right in the city. Then I moved her up to Arkansas because we had other family there. I have some relatives in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, but it’s actually strange for me to go back to Louisiana. There are just so many ghosts.

CP: What kinds of ghosts?

LW: Well, the last time I went back there, we played the House of Blues in New Orleans after Katrina, and being in the venue in front of the audience, I could feel this undercurrent of anxiety and frustration. A restlessness. In fact, people were just obviously getting extremely inebriated. And the strangest thing happened. A woman in the audience started masturbating during the song “Essence.”

CP: Are you kidding me?

LW: No! Cops were called, and she got angry because she wanted to finish. It was probably one of the strangest stories I’ve heard from the stage. It kind of gives you an idea of the desperation of the some of the people there.