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@tntracy wrote:
I just checked into my hotel which is about 12 miles south of downtown / the venue. Already heard from stoger via text message – seems I’ll be having Hooter’s wings for dinner tonight before the show – suits me just fine… 😉
I am really looking forward to tonight’s two-set show!
Tom
I believe the exact quote was “Hooters or bust”–pun fully intended.
Lu’s walk-on comment: “OK, we’re here to rock”
1 Buttercup
2 Metal Firecracker
3 Right in Time
4 Steal Your Love [“new, amazing version”]
5 Something About What Happens When We Talk
6 Bus to Baton Rouge
7 Born to Be Loved
8 I Lost It
9 Crescent City
10 Hot Blood [with Lucinda practically cracking up at her mention of casseroles, laundromats, tire irons, and so on]
11 Sweet Side
12 Convince Me
13 Are You Down [followed by talk of having found the “missing link” and “it just keeps getting better”]
14 Seeing Black
15 Essence
16 Come On
17 Unsuffer Me
18 Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
19 Changed the Locks
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20 Honeybee
21 RighteouslyHappy Easter, everybody.
Your visuals LWJ, my verbals.
1 I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
2 Happy Woman Blues
3 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [with mention of growing up all around the South]
4 Tears of Joy
5 Pineola [with some extra Stanford-talk, including the movement to keep his books in print]
6 Copenhagen
7 Born to Be Loved
8 Blue
9 Kiss Like Your Kiss [Emmy-nominated!]
10 Steal Your Love
11 Buttercup
12 Convince Me
13 Are You Down [followed by “I finally found a guitarist who can play anything”]
14 Out of Touch
15 Seeing Black [preceded by “I hope you like electric guitar; I really do”]
16 Unsuffer Me
17 Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings [with false start, Lu wheeling to ask “Was that your bad, Butch?” Butch acknowledging same]
18 Changed the Locks
19 Honeybee
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20 Righteously
21 Joy
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22 For What It’s Worth1 I Just Wanted to See You so Bad
[interlude where two crazed groupies up front hold up a “Welcome” and a “Blake” sign respectively]
2 Can’t Let Go [false start, no big deal]
3 People Talkin’
4 2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten (Flannery O’Connor gets a nod beforehand, along with Messrs. Adams and Imes)
5 Fruits of My Labor
6 Steal Your Love (guitar tech Nick fiddles with Lu’s plug early in it, then she abandons the guitar altogether for this rousing number which she calls after “the best that song ever sounded”)
7 Don’t Know How You’re Livin’
8 Born to Be Loved
9 Concrete and Barbed Wire
10 I Lost It
11 Buttercup
12 Drunken Angel (harmonica-less, but fine)
13 Convince Me
14 Seeing Black
15 Essence
16 Unsuffer Me
17 Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
18 Changed the Locks
19 Honeybee
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20 Blessed
21 Get Right with God
22 Joy
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23 For What It’s WorthHot night at the Vogue, little talk between songs but Lu and band smoking. Tom Overby affirmed and jigged visibly from the wings, throughout. Despite “lafayette” sending me repeated text messages in the early evening about the nature of tonight’s opening act, there. . . was no opening act. Doors at 7, but it became clear c. 8:15 that the crew was prepping (not to say stalling) toward a Lucinda walk-on. Packed crowd, good one for the most part. Blake Mills more than held his own, more than one fine solo break, even further letting go to look forward to in future shows I suspect. We spoke briefly with him afterward, also David. Lu’s sister Karen was present, and she patiently signed for fans while shivering in the parking lot, then boarding the bus with family and guests. Cool debut, and hopefully lafayette and others will supplement this report.
That may very well BE the chest of the southpaw I met in upstate (Ithaca) New York last month–in a bodily incarnation of a couple of decades back!
@LWjetta wrote:
From High Road touring.
Sat. April 23rd Madison Theatre, Covington, KY
Opener: Ryan Mallot of Cincinnati. His band is 500 Miles to Memphis. (Lafayette should know them)Wed. April 27th Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, TN
Opener: Kevin Abernathy. (stoger should know him) ABERNATHY? ABERNATHY? HAVEN’T A CLUE. TENNESSEE IS A PRETTY BROAD STATE–GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING, AT LEAST–PERHAPS NOT QUITE UP TO ONTARIO DEPTH AND BREADTH, BUT. . . ME, I’D JUST AS SOON IDAHOAN EILEN JEWELL RAN THE TABLE BY WAY OF OPENER, BUT WE’LL SEE HOW THIS “LOCAL” TREND PANS OUT.Wonder If this is will be a trend (i.e. local bands to open)
lwj
@Lafayette wrote:
@dr winston oboogie wrote:
Never mind the belt buckles…
Just look at those beautiful ladies…love the photo.
This was taken the night of the Janis Joplin tribute in Cleveland. The stage sign indicates (I would think) this was taken at the venue. This is the night Lu wrote “Port Arthur” just minutes before taking the stage.
And if memory serves (and in my case I think you might agree it does), we, Lafayette, were there. . . .
@heatherhortonhall wrote:
Wanted to have the musical members of my family (there are many, though I am years out of practice) play “Knowing” at my upcoming wedding. Can’t find sheet music anywhere. Do you know where I might be able to purchase?
Thanks,
HWow, my friend Trina (known to some of the Lu crew as “Trina, the flight attendant-poet”) had her first dance with groom Dave to “The Knowing,” just seven nights ago in Myrtle Beach. “Buttercup” was in the house DJ’s repertoire too. As one might well imagine, that was one hell of a reception. Good luck and godspeed.
What, EJ’s an Aries too? Humbly, I am in those ranks, as is Miller Williams, etc. I think MIller might be same day as Jewell. Nice Portsmouth vibe, didn’t you think Tim? And I’m wondering if there’s any chance she and her band may be the Lu opener before long, continuing in the great tradition of. . . well, too many to name here. Some are in fact named in lefthand column of this Forum thread. At any rate, give us a report of the show, Tim.
Ha ha: The engineer catches the dropped consonant version at the end of a Lu song title, which the English teacher missed. Believe it’s called a dipthong, maybe. Or maybe not, according to this spell check. Hell, it’s spring break. Thanks for fixin’ this, moderator.
Good heavens, this can hardly be called a headliner/closer. Think I’ll take the early Canal streetcar from the Quarter. Let’s hope the NEXT night will be the true late-night marathon. . .
Mainly just limbering up, you two, for when my duties kick in again on 21 April. But thanks for reading.
As Steve Earle once said a propos of “Copperhead R” shout-outs, “do you think we’d come all this way and NOT do that one?” Wish I could think of some “Steel Wheels” equivalents, believe I posted an example of that at the unfortunately fanned Minglewood Hall Memphis show couple of years back. And Reno’s audience did the same once: Oh well.
