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Good job lwj. Someone must have gone rogue with video recording. 😉 Good recording, but I dont think those are official. 😮
The one new song I liked, from set list and video recording is “Skin and Bones” and it looks like I didn’t have my ears tuned in quite right as the other new song is “The Arrow Killed The Beast,” according to Mercury Lounge setlist…not “The Arrow and the Beast.” 😆
I made the ‘secret’ show with minutes to spare after hoofing it across campus from the studio, where I thought the show was scheduled. The station is trying to expand its events across campus and utilized the student union buildin. Will teach me to read my emails more thoroughly. 😮
The show was actually broadcast on the station (I should have guessed) as a question and answer sesssion with performances inbetween. Erika took the stage, along with her band sans drummer– therefore the acoustic show billing– in an ivory tank top, daisy duke shorts, turquoise necklace, wedge heels. It was very hot Wednesday, my car thermometer registering 102 degrees at various points on my 40 minute drive, but averaging a cool 98 degrees for most of the duration of the trip.
Videotaping was not allowed but still photos with no flash was allowed. I will post a few shortly. The station was filming the show. I suspect videos will pop up of select songs on WNKU’s YouTube channel along with some sort of podcast, either in full or snippets.
Erika talked about her move to Austin (four years now), how she has been listening to country music more since her move, gravitating toward Ray Price. The new album has been recorded with an expected release date beginning first of year. The working title at present is “Arrow.” They are doing a short run of shows to play the new material. She said their van just turned over 200,000 miles .
She played several new songs — “The Arrow and The Beast” and another I forgot to write title down but really liked —something about bare bones.
They are recording a soundtrack for a movie and after this short run of shows are returning to work on it.
She said at one point she will always consider Cincinnati home and it was good to be back.
The Skyline chili question came up, a Cincinnati favorite, and she said her guitar player took a picture of a cheese coney earlier in the day with his phone, posted it to FB and had 15 comments about the post. 🙂
The broadcast was 45 minutes in length.
I spoke to Erika afterwards but only briefly. I told her I actually discovered her on Lu’s forums and had bumped into her at Lu’s wedding (even with her being a local band at one time 😳 ). I had people waiting behind me so I left it at that.
Great opportunity to see her and the band — with no one chatting during songs!
AND…another release from TBone with the Speaking Clock Revue due in stores October 18. 😀
http://www.mellencamp.com/news.html?n_id=1510
In October 2010, multiple-Grammy® and Oscar®-winning producer T Bone Burnett organized an impressive group of musicians, dubbed The Speaking Clock Revue, and joined with Participant Media for concerts benefiting arts education. The lineup included Elton John, Elvis Costello, Leon Russell, John Mellencamp, Gregg Allman, Ralph Stanley, Jeff Bridges, Neko Case, Jim James, Punch Brothers, Karen Elson, and The Secret Sisters. The Speaking Clock Revue was recorded at the Beacon Theater in New York, and featured a house band made up of musicians from many Burnett-produced recordings and led by music director and guitarist Marc Ribot.
Burnett was inspired to do the fundraising concerts after attending an early screening of Participant’s documentary Waiting for “Superman,” from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud), which focused on the troubled state of public education in the U.S., following a handful of promising students through a U.S. public school system and offering creative new approaches to education reform. Participant’s Jeff Skoll, Jim Berk, Jeff Ivers and John Schreiber serve as executive producers on the album, the first release under the company’s newly-created Participant Music banner.
@tntracy wrote:
@Lafayette wrote:
“He’s God” is actually “God Don’t Never Change.”
Change duly noted here & at setlist.fm… 😉
@Lafayette wrote:
I loved this song so much
Did you hear my voice (song) mail?
Tom
Yes, Tom, I finally listened to my voicemail — the entire song! What a wonderful surprise — wish I had heard the phone ring.I love concert calls! Thanks a bunch.
Wonderful in depth report, tnt! Sounds like a superb show and one where Lu felt right at home. 😀
A note on the “He’s God” song title with prior discussion about blues songs and song titles that morph. Here is info I posted in the Nelsonville, OH show recap thread about this song.
I loved this song so much, after this show, that upon Lu’s advice, I went searching for Blind Pearly Brown’s music, since Lu said it was her first musical interest. It lead me to some fascinating finds and more dot connecting.I easily found a few CD’s of Blind Pearly Brown’s on amazon, ordered one, and discovered, upon listening to the CD, that “He’s God” is actually “God Don’t Never Change.” Further research had me discovering that Blind Pearly Brown was covering Blind Willie Johnson. The song (if my research is accurate) was originally recorded in New Orleans in Dec, 1929.
Link to Blind Pearly Brown CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Gonna-Need- … =8-1-fkmr1
Link to information on “God Don’t Never Change” by Blind Willie Johnson:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/TrackDetails … temid=4350
http://reocities.com/bourbonstreet/delt … bjohns.htm
I can’t head south to Macon so I suppose the next best thing is to head south to WNKU studios tomorrow afternoon. I was invited to the “secret show” for being a volunteer at the studio. Stevarino, I doubt now I will go to Southgate House. Lefty, I will pass along your regards to Erika.
Thank you, lwj, for posting! I will take a look later next week after I return from vacation. I’m briefly checking in and out. We’re on a rain delay tonight, so I’m taking advantage of the down time. 😀
Oh…what I wouldn’t have given to see that live! On vacation and I’m hovering in the lobby of our hotel while my guys are sleeping HA! I’m going to see if I can watch it on YouTube! For anyone that didn’t catch the interview I posted….one done for Lucinda’s Austin gig at Grubbs…Amos was quoted as claiming Little Angel was a song he listened to a thousand times….one that colored all the edges for him.
So cool, so cool, so cool.
No info on the secret show…it is a promotional event to secure added funds to WNKU’s coffers and one I’m not willing to participate in. I like doing the once and done way of contributing and this show is for members participating in a monthly cc payment for 12 months.
