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I saw Lucinda’s show last night. Great show, it was one of those nights where performers and crowd worked together. “Joy” became a rocking raveup (thank you Doug Pettibone!), “Get Right With God”, the last song of her encore, was like stepping into a revival tent. I heard a lot of great remarks from the crowd after the show. Nice!
Welcome, chrisinnis, and indeed, it was a great show. Lu mentioned several times, with a big smile on her face, it was probably one of her top five favorite venues.
People Talkin’
Jackson
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road [relays the Miller Williams story at The Bluebird in Nashville]
Stowaway In My Heart
Ventura
Trying To Get To Heaven (Bob Dylan cover)
Copenhagen (Rescue as alternate)
Born To Be Loved
Drunken Angel [with Blaze Foley and Townes Van Zandt discussion]
Something Wicked This Way Comes [with mention of borrowing line from Ray Bradbury]
Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings (Essence as alternate)
Changed The Locks
It’s Not My Cross To Bear (The Allman Brothers Band cover)
Out of Touch
Joy (with David Garza)
Honey Bee (with David Garza)Encore:
I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore (Woody Guthrie cover) (solo acoustic)
Salt of the Earth (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues as alternate)
Get Right With God (with Amy Cook and David Garza) [Lu puts on tiara given to her by fan]Color commentary to follow.
Updated a few comments in set list. Additional experiences and observations.
I love Stuart’s Opera House – a pristine, restored theater supporting community arts as well – children’s youth camp artwork adorning the walls as well as handmade cigar box “guitars” and some pottery pieces on display. The town is very reminiscent of a “Mayberry RFD”. A notation at the top of the set list may concur with my observations: “Most likely place for a alien or superman citing on tour.” 😀
Lu was in storytelling mode with great comedic timing. Superb actually. Very relaxed as well.
I started taking notes on my phone [forgot ink pen at the will call desk] much to the dismay of the gals sitting next to me. Apparently, the light on my phone was too bright, annoying them and they asked me to stop. I wish I had been sloshing beer on them, maybe the bright light would have been the lesser of two evils. Oh well. It prompted me to covertly turn on my camera in video mode to briefly track the songs and Lu’s storytelling. “Copenhagen” came in at minimum of 2:45 time with much laughter from the audience. I think this has been referenced in the past but she mentioned the fan who approached her after a show at The Continental Club in Austin, informing her she was mispronouncing “Copenhagen.” Lu’s take – oh well, it’s too late now. She proceeded to talk about the video produced for the song and the creator being the driving force behind “Squidbillies.” Lu received an ‘assist’ from moi as she had trouble recalling “Squidbillies.” She heard me, sitting 4 rows back, and proceeded by saying some describe “Squidbillies” as “South Park” on acid.
The theater has old wooden seats with a little a great little space directly in front of the stage. Last year, while purchasing tickets I was told that space was open to patrons, as a GA type area. A few notes into “Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings” had the chair dancing gal in front of me up and on the “dance floor.” I saw this as my opportunity to break free from the stuffy ladies next to me and joined her. Lu looked down and smiled at us. After the song, she encouraged everyone else to come down, she didn’t mind. The floor filled up with dancing bodies and smiling faces. One lady had on this tiara and Lu was smiling at her. She gave it to Lu, who took it and placed it near her drink station, and on “Get Right With God,” hesitant at first, she put it on. It looked great!
Nice account, lafayette. “Rescue” would have been the only tour debut from this particular gig, but great to see “Stowaway” and “Copenhagen” (whether long “a” vowel sound or not) in the list of songs actually done. Good initiative on that dance mode–no need to wait for TM Eric to wave you guys forward. Had I been by your side as planned, perhaps we could have tag-teamed the “stuffy” ones. Fine restraint, as it turned out.
P.S. to Covington show: Amy Cook mentioned that one Lu crew member had actually seen Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Madison Theatre–presumably as a child. The good money is on the new monitors guy, Mike I think; he’s a man of a certain generation.
http://www.nodepression.com/photo/lucinda-williams-amy-cook?context=latest
loved this picture/love Daa-vid
Love the photo link. Thanks!
No tiara shot…yet. I wanted to grab the camera and shoot, but I was so close I didn’t want to irritate Lu.
that tiara wasn’t very large and the angle of the photo shot is steep,
but if you look closely I think you can sorta see the spikes of her regal moment.
I really enjoyed the show, Lu was certainly at ease, it seemed like a living room show@pancho wrote:
that tiara wasn’t very large and the angle of the photo shot is steep,
but if you look closely I think you can sorta see the spikes of her regal moment.
I really enjoyed the show, Lu was certainly at ease, it seemed like a living room showYes! I missed it. It can be seen in several of the photos, the top of the tiara. It was a great night, indeed.
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