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Valentine’s Day 2015 in Spokane, WA
http://ev8.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS%3ATWC%3AEBCT15:EBCT0214%3A&linkID=twcorp
lwj
@stoger wrote:
Did the imbedded one uproot himself prior to the proceedings? No one stalk out the PacMan machine for a good-angled report?
The machine is chomping at the bit for any info on Mpls. 2nd night.
The usual suspects Facebook, Twitter and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune yield no results.
I’m thinking Lu and TO are visiting Mpls. before returning to LA and will fill us in later.Anyway, stoger I know you are a long time follower of Lucinda’s music. Moi, I’m the rookie for about the last 8 years and without a doubt this November tour beats ’em all. Over 80 tour debuts producing a wide variety of Lu’s collection. Oddly little or nothing from WEST.
I sure enjoyed the Toronto show.
2015=more tours, new record to look forward to.lwj
From the Chicago Tribune.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-lucinda-williams-review-20141129-story.html
lwj
Simply outstanding report vmorris. You have the gift of capturing all the neat details much like you did at the Saxahapaw shows last year.
I had a premonition that Jim Lauderdale would join Lu on stage much like last year when he finished up performing in Bristol, TN or is it VA and made it to 3rd & Lindsley on time.
I’ve seen Blackie and the Rodeo Kings a couple of times here in Canada, but the most recent time was in Toronto wherein stoger and I attended the co-billing Lu show with Levon Helm and Colin was present.This tour has simply been outstanding with a wide variety of setlists.
To all my FF friends in the USA have a Happy Thanksgiving and stay at home with family, friends tonight and don’t get caught in the mad pre-Black Friday shopping this evening.lwj
@Lafayette wrote:
Lucinda, take two, on 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten, with much audience applause after the first line. I absolutely LOVE this song. I’m so glad she dug deep and it wasn’t aborted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGGxEdeIwuo&list=UUgpXgTp1CISfEdVWucINn8Q
Great report, stoger, as always! It was great meeting DDinNJ and her husband, the couple at our table (from Iowa, I believe). I am also extremely thankful for dinner and drinks with good friends, an incredible set list (2 Kool, Hot Blood, Metal Firecracker, each and every new song) and performance by Lu and her dynamic band, dancing table side (with a smile from Lu when she saw us jump up), waves from the stage from the Kenneth Brian band, i.e. Frank, Travis, and Lillie Mae, my embedded seat front and center – again, due in part to great friends, the set list from the show, morning tylenol, and a safe trip home.
Have fun all you crazy kids in Nashville, embedded for all three nights. I hope to see y’all in 2015!
Sounds like a great road trip you had Lafayette.
Loved your video capture of Junebugs vs Hurricanes. Do you still have that trusty Kodak.?
You are so right about attending a gig with friends and I too would love to see you and other FF members again in 2015 perhaps at one or more of the following. LW, JM, AL, or AP.
Were you able to acquire this at stoger’s discounted price ? 😆
lwj
Great reporting stoger and nice to see a lot of FF names in attendance.
Could night’s 2 and 3 lead to a late night in Nashville ?
Double openers of Steelism /KBB and Kristin Diable / KBB 2 and 3 respectively ?lwj
@stoger wrote:
I think I can shed some light on Nashville: KBB on Monday (with Lillie Mae Lillie Mae). Thirty Tigers has some input into the subsequent nights, so I assume this Ms. Diable (wed to a Lucifer figure perhaps?) is a fledgling on that distributor/label. Who knows the third night?
That language is pretty pointed about the KBB absence for Toronto, but I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions on the deportation/checkered passport front. Only our NSA knows for sure, lwj.
“Steelism” a band from Nashville and the UK on night 2. ( Yes with 30 Tigers)
From their web site their sound is electronic with no vocals on the videos I saw.
http://steelismmusic.com/And, as reported earlier Kristin Diable on night 3. ( Yes with 30 Tigers)
lwj
@Lafayette wrote:
…and another Massey Hall review. This dude had issues with Lu’s ‘teleprompter’ (lyrics stand), however, the three replies in the comments section disagree and defend. Bravo.
He does LOVE the band!
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2014/11/21/lucinda_williams_gets_stellar_assistance_at_massey_hall_review.html
Lafayette, the writer said the venue was 1/2 full under the photo caption.
Sure it was at 7;45 and by 8:45 it was 90% full , only the upper balcony had empty seats.lwj
Another Toronto review complete with photos.
https://nowtoronto.com/music/concert-reviews/lucinda-williams-at-massey-hall/
lwj
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Lucinda Williams Setlist at Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Blessed
I Just Wanted To See You So Bad
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
I Lost It
Drunken Angel
West Memphis
Compassion solo acoustic
When I Look At the World solo acoustic
Lake Charles
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Are You Down
Protection
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Foolishness
Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
Essence
Change The Locks
Honey Bee
Encore:
Magnolia
(J.J. Cale cover)
Joy
Get Right With God
Encore 2:
Hot Blood
Rockin’ in the Free World
(Neil Young cover)lwj
Another glowing review from Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams has been compared in style and substance to Hank Williams Sr. (no relation), Bob Dylan and Keith Richards. She did all three of those legends proud Friday night at the Music Box Supper Club, where the capacity crowd almost stomped the floor out of the second story venue during her four rousing encores.
Williams, with her snare-drum-tight three-piece band, demonstrated why she is a time-tested triple threat of alt-country, folk-blues and hot rock. The Grammy award winner put on a show highlighting her song-writing skills, her sweetly unique vocal imperfections and powerful performing chops that made for a profoundly satisfying show.
Dressed in a leather jacket, leather pants and knee-high leather boots, Williams looked absolutely punk with her rats-nest, bleach-blonde coif. She brings disheveled to a proud new level.
Early in the set, she played “Drunken Angel” a tribute to her late friend Blaze Foley who died after being shot, as she told the audience during an argument that had nothing to do with him.
Known as “the poet of loss,” Williams can write about heartache, heartbreak and life’s down-and-outers like nobody’s business.
“What would we do without beautiful losers,” she asked the crowd citing three songs about male friends who had come to early ends. “We need those bad boys in our lives,” she said before launching into another tribute to a lost friend who succumbed to a bad liver on the song called “Lake Charles.”
Williams’ father, Miller Williams, an accomplished poet and academic, provided the lyrics for the moving song “Compassion.” Her songs touched frequently on the spiritual including a number called “Protection” in which the chorus includes the line; “I need protection from the enemy of love.”
For an artist who writes so vividly and powerfully about love, loss and life, Williams seemed shy talking ever so briefly and almost inaudibly with the audience between numbers.
The song of the evening was the haunting “When I Look at the World,” which begins as a litany of lifelong disappointment and rejection. But she comes back in the chorus with “But when I look at the world, in all its glory. When I look at the world, it’s a different story.” It was a brilliant, gut-wrenching ode to the duality of existence and the possibilities of redemption.
Her two-hour set concluded with four powerful encores for the adoring, sometimes rowdy audience. The band performed, the gospel stomper, “Get Right with God,” the funky country, “Hot Blood” and concluded with Neil Young’s “Rocking in the Free World.” The rafters literally shook with that one.
Williams came out smiling for her final bow with a glass of red wine in hand.
“Just wanted y’all to know my management company is called “Hello Cleveland,” she said smiling to her cheering fans.
lwj
@Lafayette wrote:
Great report, lwj, and nice bartering, eh! I had issues with purchasing one of Matt’s CD’s in Lexington. At first, the mobile CC machine wasn’t working, and when I returned, there were no CD’s available in the front of the house, boxed elsewhere. I’ll have to stop by the merch table in Nashville and perhaps score on that 33% discount.
Here is a review from ‘No Depression’, with mentions of the red vino encore, the dancing women (our Lexington show, several rows in front of us, had 3 women up at Joy), AND the reviewer was sitting with Neil Young’s brother, Bob.
http://nodepression.com/live-review/lucinda-williams-still-too-cool-be-forgotten
Thanks Lafayette.
The No Depression article is spot on. I did see Ron Sexsmith in the bar area at intermission. I’ve seen him once in concert. His hometown is St. Catharines, ON (where I currently work part-time.)
I think he opened years ago for Lucinda.(I’m sure stoger can confirm that.)Here’s a HQ video of NEIL’s encore song with the “conservative” Canadians up on their feet and arms held high.
I have to save this vid as a momento of a great Lu gig.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHKFxpnLCkI
p.s. enjoy Nashville.
lwj
@tonyg wrote:
Knowing Stoger finaly paid off!
How did you post that setlist? I was unable to do so. 😕
tonyg I brought it home with me and stroked off the alternates not sung.
Lu’s stage hand with the long black beard gave it to me at show’s end.
I then scanned the list in my computer, posted to tinypics images and pasted it into the forum.lwj
Here we go FF.
Great almost sold out show. (Massey Hall seating is approx. 2,800)
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I met singer / songwriter / merch. guy Matt Blake from Austin. I bought his CD “All the dirt in Town” which has Lu on track #3 and was produced by Doug Pettibone.
His price was $15.00 but since I mentioned knowing Roger (aka stoger) I got it for $10.00
Matt told me the tour bus had to veer way up north near Lefty’s area to enter Canada since all roads in Buffalo area were shut down. Stoger, my guess earlier about KBB was correct-2 members lacking proper passports to enter Canada.
Lu and David returned to the stage for the first encore with their glasses of red vino.
Not much onstage banter, Loved Stu and David’s riffs and the harmonica.
About when Joy came on a swarm of young gals came to stage level and started dancing up a storm. This continued to the rousing conclusion of NEIL’s Rockin’Most enjoyable evening. Now off to work and later I may add more comments.
By the way just before the usual Love, Peace…..Lu stated she loves to come to Canada and we Americans can learn a thing or two.lwj
