Lafayette

@stoger wrote:

@Lafayette wrote:

@stoger wrote:

Please allow me to hijack further. August 3, Englert Theatre Iowa City. Backstreets, are you hip to this?

Am I hip to the hijack or to the date?

To answer the hijack query, sure, I’m hip.

To answer the date query, I may be out of town July 27 – Aug 5, still working on details.

Well, I was asking “Iowa Mike,” but good to know your schedule too Lafayette. Thanks for posting Purdue.

I missed ‘Backstreets’ in your query. 😕 😀

I am adding another show to the list…one I can make (!!!), and one a Mellencamp friend just purchased front row seats via donor presale, and he has an extra one he is going to sell me – The Buskirk Chumley Theater in Bloomington, IN on Aug 6. Wahoooo.

I’ve been out of the loop, life things. Thanks for the heads up!

I had an inbox post and twitter is now lighting up with an Aug 5 show at Purdue. Damn. I’ll probably miss Lu’s August shows unless there are dates between Aug 5 – Aug 11 that will work for me. Fingers crossed.

General On Sale is June 9 for the Purdue show. I’ll update the summer thread ASAP.

https://www.purdue.edu/convocations/event/lucinda-williams/

Apologies for hijacking the Winston-Salem thread.

Okay, thanks, Tom. I was wondering if I should post. It was very personal, but I did think riveting. I’ll delete if you think best. Anything posted in the forum, I believe, can be pulled up when doing google searches with the right key words.

I agree, Viv. Good idea on starting this thread.

I found a piece on Lucinda written by Bill Buford in 2000 for the New Yorker. It certainly chronicles, in detail, much of the stories behind some of the songs and detailed personal information, as well. It’s very riveting. I found this months ago but never posted, after stoger posted a set list with a bracketed entry behind Lake Charles. The comment pertained to Lu talking about pawning a guitar and he had never heard that story before (something along those lines). I went ‘in search of’ and found the article.

“I’m sitting in Lucinda’s house in Nashville, going through three meticulously organized volumes of photographs. Clyde appears regularly, a big fleshy man with a flap of dark hair and round cheeks and a barrel chest. Lucinda points out Clyde’s characteristic pose—arms thrown out wide, a come-join-the-party look. There are pictures of the two of them in Austin. “That,” Lucinda says, “is when Clyde persuaded me to pawn a rare twelve-string guitar so we could get food and beer” (whereupon the pawnshop burned down, a typical Clyde touch of fortune).”

Here is the article in it’s entirety. Bill Buford would be a great collaborator, IMHO.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/06/05/delta-nights