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For you, vmorris.
No need to dig, TO.
The set list (with color commentary). Grats to stoger for finding . I’m copying and pasting for him, a FF throwback task.
Casino, Council Bluffs
1 Rescue
2 Are You Alright [before which Lu notes the tragedy of the bridge-buckling in
Minneapolis, mentioning that some of the crew live there]
3 Fruits of My Labor
4 Words
5 2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten [before which Lu compares the humidity level tonight with
her roots in MS and LA]
6 Those Three Days
7 Right in Time [followed by a tirade against the sauna-like conditions,
including the all-caps quote above]
8 Jailhouse Tears [followed by some apologies/retreating–“Charlie’s never seen
this side of me” + “I can be a spitfire” + “I had a bit of a meltdown just now”]
9 When I Stop Dreaming [w/ Charlie Louvin]
10 Get Right with God [w/ Charlie Louvin]
11 Still I LOng for Your Kiss
12 Come ON
13 Changed the Locks
14 Honeybee
15 Righteously
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16 Are You Down [with Chet from the Eels]
17 I Live My Life [Fats Domino cover, with Chet]
18 Joy [with Chet]Great minds think alike, Lefty. I was going to post this article (for you) after seeing the Bob Dylan mention (and inspiration). All these articles are being posted from interviews he is doing to promote his art show opening at a museum near Youngstown, OH.
I look forward to your annual JM postings. 😀
Changed The Locks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odNL-ihAPk
Fast Becoming one of my favorites:
2 Kool
Start searching, big guy. I’d love to see what you dig up on this most infamous night.
The author of the article is FF member ‘homosacer.’ 😮
Also, I dug up this thread (I knew I had read/heard about the meltdown somewhere).
Here is the published piece:
…and said quote, excerpted and highlighted in RED.
Approaching Lucinda, Our Beautiful Loser
(Listen to) “Sweet Side”So you don’t always show your sweet side . . .
Just this side of strange in comparison with the other men at Lucinda’s concerts, I will admit that the main reason I enjoy myself at her shows, though, is mitigated through my sense as well as my perception of her anxiety that is normally—almost ritually—played out each evening she performs in a certain chronology. When she finally makes her way on stage (always very belatedly, in my notable experience), she brings with her an unsettling sort of presence. Lucinda’s affect and disposition is weighed down by a stony, stoic, silent stage fright for the first third of the set, as she moves her way through a handful of amazingly slow, overwrought, plodding, pitiful old songs (the kind anyone else would tell you not to perform in concert, much less for the first part of the damn set!) all the while deflecting the gaze of the audience and dissociating her from the stage she is performing on.
You run yourself ragged tryin’ to be strong
You feel bad when you done nothin’ wrong
Love got all confused with anger and pride
So much abuse on such a little child
Someone you trusted told you to shut up
Now there’s a pain in your gut that you can’t get rid ofAfter this, thanks to nerves and/or whatever liquor she’s got in her cup up there on stage (she says she drinks Grand Marnier to coat her throat, so there’s at least that . . . ), our once sheepish heroine warms up a bit, maintaining her anxieties and displeasures about her surroundings. Peppering—or, if you’re not into such tenuous forms of spectatorship, cluttering—her performance with false starts and vulgar outbursts, Lucinda has come out of her shell a bit (the last example that comes to mind is her, very seriously and angrily, stopping midsong to say, “Who do I have to fuck to get a fucking fan up here? It’s fucking hot!” and other times I’ve heard her scold people for talking during her set, asking them if they’d like to “fucking do it” themselves)—finally opening herself up to the crowd, only to turn, venomously and breathtakingly, against them. [End Page 40]
Some additional *color commentary* info on the tour for you, vmorris.
She was touring with Charlie Louvin, the show was at Harrah’s.
http://omaha.eventful.com/events/lucinda-williams-/E0-001-004937300-1
According to this article on CMT news, Charlie was invited for a 13 show run, and this particular show concluded that run.
http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1563522/lucinda-williams-invites-charlie-louvin-on-tour.jhtml
Best tour story in eons. Funny, I was on a road trip over the weekend and listening to the live ‘Sweet Old World” session from this tour, and during band intros, as she introduced Chet, mentioned he was on loan *sort of* from The Eels, and continued with the “Chet managing the Smoosh Sisters and he had come to a prior show with them in tow and sat in on a few songs.” It had worked so well, she continued, he was asked to play some more shows. However, she never mentioned the meltdown. 😆
“The Highway” is just a beautiful collection of songs. I’ve been listening to it often.
The girl singing in the video is the amazing Annie Clements out of Nashville. A bass player and vocalist, she toured with Jennifer Nettles, sits in with Holly (just a few days ago at ACL), and looks like she will be touring with Amos Lee (she played with him during a Leno spot a month or so ago. I didn’t know about her until that appearance).
Updated setlist.fm with your post, lwj, with addition of Lake Charles. I would think Joy was in the set as well, however, with no reference, I can’t make it official. 😕
@stoger wrote:
Yes, my two-eyed friend, my frames are newly minted.
[transition after song twelve: “We’ve taken the vinyl off the turntable and are going to mix it up now. . . .”]
13 Lake Charles
14 Bus to Baton Rouge
15 Drunken Angel
16 Real Live Bleeding. . .
17 Essence [dancer crashes the photogenic folks up front]
18 Still I Long for your Kiss [dancer, mercifully, retreats]
19 Joy [before which Lu references the recent LA concert “for labor” by mentioning New Orlean Aaron Neville, talking with him there and learning he now calls NYC home]
20 Honeybee
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21 Magnolia
22 Get Right with God [with Susan Cowsill + the whole KBB, including its third drummer in the last week]The good times did indeed roll, in any language. And don’t forget to rub the Professor Longhair bust/statue for good luck.
I was perusing google before this show, searching for pertinent Lucinda reviews, blogs, etc. and came across this 2007 interview while Lu was promoting West. Stoger, “Essence,” as performed in New Orleans, must bring out the ‘wild thang’ in some women.
A must read. Eyes wide open. 😯
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/interview.cfm/articleid/106384
LW: When I lived in Nashville, I always had one foot out the door. I don’t really have any strong ties there to the South now that my mother’s gone. She lived there for years and years, in New Orleans, right in the city. Then I moved her up to Arkansas because we had other family there. I have some relatives in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, but it’s actually strange for me to go back to Louisiana. There are just so many ghosts.
CP: What kinds of ghosts?
LW: Well, the last time I went back there, we played the House of Blues in New Orleans after Katrina, and being in the venue in front of the audience, I could feel this undercurrent of anxiety and frustration. A restlessness. In fact, people were just obviously getting extremely inebriated. And the strangest thing happened. A woman in the audience started masturbating during the song “Essence.”
CP: Are you kidding me?
LW: No! Cops were called, and she got angry because she wanted to finish. It was probably one of the strangest stories I’ve heard from the stage. It kind of gives you an idea of the desperation of the some of the people there.
This will be my 9th Farm Aid in the past 10 years. The only one I’ve missed since 2003 was the 2004 Seattle location, the only one Lucinda played. West Coast travel is difficult for me to do from a time frame stand point.
I doubt you see me at either the press event or in rows 1 – 6 this year. I opted to not go the VIP ticket route and our seats this year are in Section 12, towards the back of the lower pavilion.
Here is a picture I took at the 2008 press event. I also worked the 2011 press event.
If I could caption this it would be: “Hey, John, look. A crazy one – over there!” [Some of the Mellenheads reference themselves as the Crazy Ones, from a song of same title with lyrics: ‘she’s got backstage access and she’s dancing in the aisles.’ Of course, the song isn’t about crazy fans, instead it’s, as my sources tell me, a song about Mariel Hemingway. Rumor has it JM was involved with her while filming “Falling From Grace.”
