Saxapahaw, NC 8-21-22

1 Steal Your Love
[a long interlude, as Lu examines such things as the pronunciation of “Saxapahaw,” the distinctions among Native American tribes, and the old Yankee/Southern divide–New Yorker Jesse Malin is purportedly laughing in the wings at this]
2 Protection
[Lu stalls again with pronunciation talk, then says she “will get in trouble” if she keeps going on in this vein]
3 Car Wheels [title cut off an album “against which all my other albums are always judged”]
4 Right in Time
5 Pineola
6 People Talkin’ [lovely electric mandolin from DP]
7 Big Black Train
8 Lake Charles [with the longest intro imaginable, much of it in a culinary vein, ending on reflections about how much Loretta Lynn used to talk on stage]
9 Blue
10 Are You Down
11 Pray the Devil back to Hell [Stuart lighting it up on violin]
12 Stolen Moments
13 Essence
14 Honeybee
15 Joy
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16 You Can’t Rule Me
17 Rockin’ in the Free World

Great show, audience going wild for much of it. Too bad the venue can’t seem to decide about door and opening act times; Jesse Malin went on a full thirty minutes before the listed/advertised time (stirring set). We’ll see again tonite.

Cool to see the official announcement that Doug P has rejoined Lu’s band. So awesome to have him back! I wonder what happened with Jim O’s short stay with the band, I liked his keys on Lake Charles!