Lafayette

The wedding is listed on this site as a day in music history for Sept 18. A Canadian site. huh? 🙂

Roll call:

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In 2009, fans who bought a ticket for Lucinda Williams’ concert in Minneapolis wound up at her wedding — all 1,500 of them. Between her 90-minute concert and her encore, Williams was married on stage to her manager, Tom Overby.

Found it.

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/08/07/sales-week-ending-8308/

Lefsetz writes (in regards to blog about sales for week of 8/3/08):

22. John Mellencamp “Life Death Love and Freedom:

Sales this week: 18,885
Percentage change: -30
Weeks on: 3
Cume: 102,219

Why does he look twelve on the cover?

Act your age. Unless you think you’re really gonna get Top Forty airplay and the little kids will understand. You want to be PART of your audience, not miles away. Mellencamp should be showing every line in his face, his history, just like his audience.

If your career is based on credibility, and Mellencamp’s was, don’t do a commercial. It undercuts your cred.

The star here is T-Bone Burnett. He should have his own label.

John & Elaine’s responses:

John Mellencamp

Comment by John Mellencamp | 2008/08/07 at 17:51:39

I thought that you were a fan of music. Seems that a man of your age would have learned not to judge a book by the cover. Listen to the music, it shows every line and every scar.

As far as credibility goes, 23 albums, millions sold, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc. etc. etc…..35 years in the business. and for commercials, you mean no “cred” like Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, & U2?

You choose to sit behind your computer and have the illusion that you have an answer….leave your house sometime and get in the real world, the world of struggle, survival and longevity. Nothing is as it seems.

You are either for music or against it. So much negativity, how is that helping?

In the words of the great rock journalist, Timothy White “in the accomplishments of anyone there is real promise for everyone.”

PS The one thing you have gotten right is that T Bone Burnett is a wonderful producer and gentleman.

Elaine Mellencamp

Comment by Elaine Mellencamp | 2008/08/07 at 21:17:21

You must think that you are a photo critic now too…

I guess that you have become the proverbial cranky old man, hurling insults at the people who are out trying to live while you just sit and criticize.

Obviously you don’t have a wife, because if you did, she would have pointed out that when you have absolutely nothing nice to say, EVER, people stop listening.

As you seem overly eager to judge, with no regard to actual facts, I will also address your dig at John’s licensing his song for a commercial. John had had numerous opportunities for decades, and has been offered fortunes, to sell one of his songs. So after 35 years of being his songwriter, who are you to judge what he feels is appropriate for his own music or words? Bottom line, there is no longer a correlation to songs used in commercials and the credibility of the artist. Johnny Cash, no cred? Elvis Costello, no cred? Sting, no cred? Wake up to a new day, blame record company execs if you must, for putting the music industry where it is, but lambasting artists for taking matters into their own hands is just plain short sighted. My husband, I’m sure, pines for the old days sometime himself, but they are gone. We are all looking for a new way. When you write your own song then you can decide its fate.

Elaine Mellencamp

PS I took that photo of John that you mentioned, and he does look rather handsome doesn’t he? So nice of you to mention it.

Congratulations Lu & Tom on 2 years and I’m sure many many more to follow.

Love the blog find, Lefty. Thanks for posting!

@tonyg wrote:

That’s what I said and ended up getting home at 1:45 am. 😀

😀

@tntracy wrote:

You’re painting AGAIN?!?!?!?!

YES! It’s a way of life around here. 😆 😆 😆 The kiddo is back in school and I have 3 rooms I want to repaint (all bedrooms). I’m planning on painting stripes + still stripping the furniture from this room. Almost finished with the bed. I’m under pressure. I’ve taken over one side of the garage and the better half would really like his parking spot back before the frost starts. I’ll probably only get the bed finished and will have to do the dresser and wash stand next spring.

Now that this thread is completely high jacked I had to run errands during the 4:00 hour after getting a call from the kiddo he forgot his water bottle and shoes for cross country and I forgot to listen to the On Air! It’s scary I forgot that quickly but it really is par for the course.

Eilen is playing a gig this evening at The Southgate House and is set to do an on air sometime in the 4 o clock hour on WNKU — this after earlier this afternoon it was announced she wasn’t going to make it as their van “threw a transmission” somewhere past Ft. Wayne, IN on their way to Newport, Ky (Cincinnati).

On air streaming — http://wnku.org/page_wnku.asp

I really wish I could live up to legacy of the friendly forum per tonyg, ala a tad mental, 😆 however sanity is prevailing and I’m opting to stay home and paint.

Great report and insight, TO!

And, according to this tweet, ya’ll made it last night for songs M – Z.

http://twitter.com/#!/1888Media

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Lucinda Williams is dancing to the acoustic groove of Paul Kelly’s last of 50 songs at the Hotel Cafe…

I just checked OTR’s website. There are exclamation points behind “Opening for Lucinda Williams” on their event calendar. 😀

http://www.overtherhine.com/shows.php