Tucson Rialto Setlist

1 I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
2 Happy Woman Blues
3 I Lost It
4 Metal Firecracker [with two false starts, but. . .]
5 Steal Your Love [preceded by Lu taking the lyric book off the stand and twirling round the stage a bit with it, saying “I can’t see anything without my glasses”–a couple of extended, woozy guitar breaks during the song get her mood back better: later in the show, she references David Johannson of the New York Dolls using such a book]
6 2 Kool to B 4 Gotten
7 Tears of Joy
8 Side of the Road [with Chet only, so Tony, you’re probably right that it was that way in Anaheim too]
9 I Envy the Wind [with a note that the singer Lila (sp.?) Downs has covered this one, in English and in Spanish]
10 Bus to Baton Rouge
11 Which Will [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
12 Right in Time
13 Drunken Angel
14 Real Love
15 Little Rock Star [preceded by Lu asking us if we are alright, then assuring us that they would rock from here on out]
16 Essence
17 Come On [before which Lu expounds upon the problem two songs ago, a female “passed out” with her hand on the stage, the male ushering her out: this is pronounced “rude” and worse]
18 Honeybee
19 Joy
20 Righteously [before which Lu revisits the slumbering patron issue, calling this a “funny night” and saying she’s glad there are no “cookie cutter” shows on her tours]
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21 Wrap My Head Around That [abbreviated, with some banter with Butch after]
22 Changed the Locks
23 It’s a Long Way to the Top

Yeah, I’ve been able to stay in hotels walking distance to the venues, so even though I travel without a laptop, I’m often able to post from the guest computer in the lobby. Or, failing that, sneaking into adjacent rival hotel lobbies and sidling up to the table with the hardware, going to it as if I were a guest there. Tonight it’s legit.

Nick introduced Buick 6 into a dead mike, but he was dressed to the nines, necktie and coat. Take that, you Kiwi blogger types. The person next to me said after the first Buick 6 song that they were “film score potential.” Probably so.

I told Susannah others had posted her name on this Forum; she seemed surprised. By then I felt intimate enough to pop the question: Is there a silent “h” on the end of your name, or no? Yes, reader, there is, so Lefty and I win the prize for getting that right, and Paul, Lafayette, and Tony will have to do penance for ending it with a vowel. Also, as I was passing by near the end of the Buick 6 set toward the men’s room, Susannah hailed me and asked about a specific Buick 6 song on the record, as a potential merch buyer wanted to know. I think I answered it correctly. At any rate, I am now, as it were, a kind of consultant to the merch manager. Not an unflattering role.

Can you believe that sequence from song nine till song eleven? Despite the front row fiasco, Lucinda loves the Rialto and I think would only try out such a radical acoustic trio midset in front of such an appreciate crowd. Nick Drake lives.

Tony, I don’t remember Lucinda getting around to introducing the band at all in Anaheim, much less an audience shout out for Doug. But I’m probably wrong. She seldom forgets.

I knew Rialto had permanent seats in balcony, but there were dozens of temp. chairs on floor, thus lessening the rush to the front. It was possible to enter two hours after doors and get almost to front. Sweet.