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Brooklyn Bowl is part of the O2 complex. Lucinda played there, different name about six or seven years ago. Jan 22 clashes with Jason Isbell in London. He’s playing a sold-out show at Shepherds Bush Empire, shame about that 🙁
@tonyg wrote:
Here is a fun fact for all y’all: My favorite song to date is Foolishness. Runer-up, When I look At The World. So 2 facts really. 😀
Foolishness is indeed a great song. East Side of Town is wonderful, reminds me, in feel of some of her early work. There are a good number of truly fine songs to enjoy. It is quite simply a wonderful piece of work, from the writing, to the singing, to the playing and with the production. I for one could not be happier.
Interesting that the credits are correct on the weblink for Protection. Clearly something went amiss when the booklet went to print as it lists the drummer as someone who simply does not exist. Clearly a glitch in the process. Shit happens.
My copy arrived yesterday and Doug is called Pettinbone in the credits on “Walk On” in the lovely cd booklet.
Disappointing that the guitar credits are missing for the song “Protection”. The opening salvo and production are great 🙂
The record has been getting fabulous reviews here in the U.K. 5 stars in the Independent and Sunday Express. 3 stars in the Sunday Independent and 8/10 in UNCUT magazine.
Twas indeed a great, and unique night. Lucinda stated early on that she was terrified but as the night progressed she clearly enjoyed the experience and gave some wonderful song intros/stories. Perhaps the rarest perormance was a quite stunning “Side Of The Road” where Doug put in some sensational short guitar fills on his Gretsch Roadmaster. Back stage Lucinda rued the fact that the crowd tended to shout out for so many of the songs they play regularly so it perhaps was not as different as it could have been, but still a unique and hugely enjoyable experience.
Sunday night was indeed exemplary. The best I have seen Lucinda since 03 when she played here in England at Shepherds Bush Empire and I then caught both nights that summer at Red Rocks (when they were opening for Neil Young). She seems so at ease nowadays and it only magnifies in her performances on stage.
To answer a previous question, yes Doug’s guitars were rentals as thet flew in on Friday from L.A. and headed home again Monday. A brutal itinerary.
Doug was only with Ray LaMontagne fo the European tour and a couple of tv shows in the USA. He’s now back in L.A. doing sessions and playing with other people. Life moves on 😀
It is a fact. I have been a close friend of Doug’s for the past ten years and he e-mailed me from Dublin yesterday and when I popped the question in my e-mail reply he telephoned me with the answer this afternoon. It’s not for me to give any reasons that is clearly between Doug, Lucinda and her team of people. The world moves on. Lucinda will survive and continue to be creative without Doug and Doug will find new music to add his distinctive guitar and vocal flavours to.
4th and B in San Diego, summer of 2001, ran well over the three hour mark. Lu and band had played House of Blues in LA the night before and they have a curfew so the show had been relatively short. She came on stage in San Diego, and as Bo Ramsey said at the end, played every damn song she knew. That was Doug Pettibone’s first tour with Lu and he’s still around 7 years later. None of the remainder of the band are with Lu now, Don Heffington (drums) has come and gone over the years, Taras featured for many years but left when the Love Band disssolved and this, I believe, was Bo’s last tour, having been in and out of the band the previous 4 years.
The set list is what I posted above, although not necessarily in the absolutely correct order the songs were played, but the content is 100% accurate.
The Lucinda review is now up on the Independent’s website. either follow the link I gave earlier or go direct to:
http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article3180094.ece
Today’s Independent carries a stunning full half page review of Lucinda’s Sunday gig at IndigO2. I’m sure it will be posted here at some stage:
http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/
Suffice to say it got 5 stars and the final comment – the messmerising Williams is irresistable and impossible to pigeon hole.
I’ll drink to that:-)
Having been at both nights too I have to agree, the venue is superb, but until it garners greater recognition it may not pull the crowds artists draw elsewhere in the capital. Also for people living on the west of London it’s a hell of a drive.
That said Lucinda sang better than I have heard her for a number of years, the sound again was impeccable and the band magnifique.
Monday’s set list from memory and not necessarily in order, went something like this:
Are You Alright
Fruits of My Labour
Steal Your Love
Learning How To Live
Drunken Angel
People Talkin’
I Lost It
Righteously
Out Of Touch
Are You Down
Come On
Honey Bee
Joy
Riders On the Storm
______________________
Lake Charles
Sweet Old World
Pineola
Still I Long For Your Kiss
Unsuffer Me
