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I’ve seen her recorded old concerts including Austin City Limits and obviously that’s not the same as live.

I agree most artists will skew towards more recent releases, but to play six or seven off a yet unreleased CD and only three (I believe) that are 8+ years old seems like too much.

Probably another area where I differ from most on here. I much prefer her older stuff.

Like I said, I see about five concerts per year and used to go much more frequently and don’t ever recall hearing the statement “This is a new one…” before so many songs at a concert. The Bob Dylan analogy sums it up. Everyone is fine with hearing 2 to 5 songs of his post-1980 work, but only the hardcore “Dylan forum participants” will leave happy if they don’t hear 8 to 10 pre-1973 songs. She even said that since many people were at this Sac show and also went to a prior show in another city, she wanted to give them something different. Well, I wasn’t at that prior show and would have liked to hear Pineola which was played the prior night. I’m guessing 98% of the people weren’t at the show the prior night, either.

It’s easy to believe that this forum speaks for everyone at live shows, but without polling them as they leave, you really don’t know their satisfaction level.

I found it interesting after Lucinda’s fit in the encore she said “great, wait’ll the bloggers start up about this now”. She obviously looks at the feedback, which is good, but there will always be that non-blogger/forum concert-attending group, which is most people. I put myself in that group since I only checked this forum out right before the show and will probably disappear soon. But, I know I may not speak for that majority group either. But usually the large, less committed fan prefers stuff they are more familiar with, which is older.

I’m probably acting like a McCain support in the middle of San Francisco on this forum. Not going to get any sympathy!