Unity Temple Oak Park Setlist Night One

[Lu walks on and starts talking about famous locals Frank Lloyd Wright & Ernest Hemingway immediately, quoting one about this town offering “wide lawns and narrow minds.” But then someone shouts out “Betty White” too, considering lowering the artistic quotient]

1 Are You Alright
2 World Without Tears
3 2 Kool…
4 The Night’s too Long [she quotes Chicago boy Robbie Fulks in intro and draws some applause: also, the John Birch Society is mentioned]
5 Something About What Happens… [with mild false start: Patty Loveless’ desire to record this one is mentioned]
6 People Talkin’
7 Lake Charles [with some culinary detail about boudan, but not so much as to “offend the vegetarians”]
8 Fruits of My Labor [Lu goes to the throat spray prior, then compares this to George Jones hawking his own products on stage]
9 Big Black Train [with more talk of memoirs, including Chrissie Hynde’s “raunchy” one partly about Iggy Pop]
10 Blue
11 Steal Your Love
12 Drunken Angel
13 I Lost It
14 Stolen Moments
15 Pray the Devil… [Lu finds it appropriate to play in a church]
16 joy
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17 Rock and Roll Shoes (from 1958)
18 Good Souls

This was my SECOND favorite pew-seat venue in America (though I never had four hymnals–count them, four–at the Ryman in Nashville, as I did last night)