Troubadour

Great reporting everyone and sure is nice to hear from our friends in Spain again.

Here’s a review from the Orange County Register with an excerpt below providing more info on the new songs.

“Walk On,” a message of empowerment from the 61-year-old to young women that made its live debut here, has a jangly pep uncommon to so much of her hard-bitten catalog, while her opening tune – “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” inspired by the Bradbury story – arrived swampy and spiced-up by Greg Leisz’s slide guitar.
Yet neither those nor any other new cut – like the defiant “Foolishness,” akin in spirit to Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” or the bluesy rocker “Everything But the Truth” (already issued on a supplement to The Lone Ranger soundtrack) – came across overly derivative of the era she’s hoping to evoke. They sound like Lucinda; she can’t really sound like anyone else. Even her graceful cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes,” which Lu dedicated to the late Lou Reed (and one of her mentors, producer Hal Willner) and which reportedly appears on her new collection, felt familiar, as if it had been in her songbook for years.

The full review.
http://www.ocregister.com/soundcheck/night-602435-new-lucinda.html

lwj

So by process of elimination I’m thinking the only song I did not attempt a title on may have been “Everything But the Truth”. I can’t prove it. I blame Grumpymama for not grabbing the setlist that was 2 feet in front of her. 😡

@Lafayette wrote:

tonyg, major props on your cutting edge set list posting.

Word! 🙂

A brief review from the L.A. Record.
Great photo gallery accompanies the review.

http://larecord.com/photos/2014/02/21/lucinda-williams-the-troubadour

lwj