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http://www.3riversartsfest.org/fest_event/lucinda-williams/
This was a show I could have made. I’ll be out of town. 👿
http://www.3riversartsfest.org/fest_events/
Amos plays a few nights prior.
Free is good! So, this festival is the exception that proves the rule “Everything’s paid for, nothin’s free”… 🙂
@vmorris wrote:
Free is good! So, this festival is the exception that proves the rule “Everything’s paid for, nothin’s free”… 🙂
No stronger truth than that anecdote. The funds are coming from somewhere… 😮
Lucinda Williams turns in another strong performance for packed festival audience
June 15, 2014 12:30 AMScott Mervis / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rosemary Welsch, WYEP afternoon host, noted from the stage Saturday night that Paste magazine just rated the Three Rivers Arts Festival the No. 1 small-scale music festival.
A magazine for adult rock tastes, Paste certainly adores festival opener Jeff Tweedy as well as Saturday night’s headliner Lucinda Williams, the Leading Lady of alt-country.
Making her first visit to Point State Park since 2003, she was greeted by a huge, attentive crowd and, prompted by Ms. Welsch, a chorus of “Lu’s.”
“Thank you for the Lu’s,” she said. “The only other person who got the Lou’s was Lou Reed, so it’s an honor.”
This one’s the same ol’ Lu, with her tousled blonde hair, ripped jeans and that one-of-a-kind slow, lazy drawl that cuts right through you with all the heartbreak and longing.
This being a tighter festival set, it was all killer, starting with twangy roadhouse rocker “Can’t Let Go.” Flipping through her now standard sheet music, she followed with all the brilliant Triple-A hits: “Metal Firecracker,” “Drunken Angel,” “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” and “I Lost It,” among them (but no “Passionate Kisses”).
She has a history of luring great guitarists to her side. Three years ago at Stage AE she had young gun Blake Mills. This time it was Stuart Mathis, who sounded hotter than he does with The Wallflowers, bringing a thick Neil Young-like tone and venturing into some wicked jams with her crack rhythm section of bassist David Sutton and drummer Butch Norton, particularly on the jazz-reggae groove of “Are You Down” and a stomping “Joy.”
Lu’s voice and elongated delivery might not be for all tastes, but she blew the room away with “Changed the Locks,” infused with an extra shot of hurt and menace — “I’ll change the name of this town!” she cried over and over — and “Honey Bee” was a beauty.
Although it’s always a rousing closer, she should leave “Rockin’ in a Free World” to Neil and Pearl Jam, as it was a bit all over the place vocally, but she did finish strong with the encore “Get Right With God,” bursting into a gospel climax.
The one new song, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” didn’t quite live up to the billing on first listen, but with “Where the Spirit Meets the Bone” coming in September, we have a new chapter to look forward to from the alt-country queen.
SET LIST:
Can’t Let Go
Metal Firecracker
Crescent City
Drunken Angel
People Talkin’
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
World Without Tears
I Lost It
Are You Down
Out of Touch
Changed the Locks
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Joy
Honey Bee
Righteously
Rockin’ in a Free World
Encore:
Get Right with God
Scott Mervis: smervis@post-gazette.com or 412-263-2576.Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music-reviews/2014/06/15/Lucinda-wows-em-with-a-festival-set/stories/201406150224#ixzz34iCfvSMa
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Some pics from the show:
http://www.nodepression.com/photo/albums/lucinda-williams-three-rivers-arts-festival-pittsburgh-pa-june-14
Very good set, band has gotten even tighter. New guitar solos are extremely nice. One one “new” song, but Lu’s been doing it for over a year now, so Its new only in the sense that it has yet to be issued on record. I think the lack of other new songs was a conscious decision as it was a free concert. Thus, quite a few folks did not know her stuff all that well. So, go with the songs that are available to sell some albums. That said, everyone down front were, of course, long time Lu fans.
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