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Wow, “Circles & X’s”–next best thing to “If Wishes Were Horses,” no? And the title of that last one is “Port Arthur,” just to establish the Janis Joplin hometown tie-in. Still, great reports big d and parker, glad you had this Okie pleasure two nights running.
Moderator, might these two Okie streams be combined? Big Dunc, you didn’t annoy me at all (didn’t we last chat in Arkansas?) with your spot-on comments, and hope you and parkerca will get together tonight. I’m in PIttsburgh for a professional meeting, best I will do this week is former Lu opener Ron Sexsmith (she also picked his song “April After All” for her Artists’ Picks Series record, marketed through–uh hum–Starbucks) thursday night at Pitt’s Club Cafe, with Caitlin Rose (remember her in front of Chuck Prophet in Atlanta, moderator?) opening. Rather be in the land of OK tonight, but godspeed to everyone on both sides of the stage area, as it were.
Parker, glad you got in despite the snafu: I think I met this Greg at Folk Alliance in Memphis last year, nice guy. And what a setlist–perhaps enough to make paul in losangeles reconsider his avowed scaling back of Lu shows, what with all the “oldies”. . .
I should probably know this, but wasn’t the first Blue Door show last night, Sunday? Maybe it’s Monday and Tuesday. At any rate, hope to hear from parkerca and others at the appropriate time.
@rugles wrote:
Pollstar is showing 4 new shows today. Boulder is not on the list but the Victoria date is on there.
http://www.pollstar.com/resultsArtist.aspx?ID=36869&SortBy=Date
Hope they can get her back up around Great Lakes early to mid-summer. Love to have another show in the Toronto area … hint hint.
Tell the truth, Rugles, you just want that comp. American Express beer! 😀
Thanks for the heads-up here and by phone, tntracy. I nabbed a center section row A aisle at eight minutes after the hour, though the phone number on the Forum was either wrong or copied down wrong by me. Still, I’m betting paul in los angeles is same row, aisle on opposite side. Kudos to you center center people who called at 9:01 central, whoever you may be. 😀
@blake wrote:
@tonyg wrote:
Blake I see that your former band was there. Did you get to see or play with them?
Yea! Had lunch today at Whole Foods with the old Dawes guys. Everyone seems in good spirits, some great stuff coming up this year for them. Very exciting.
Good to hear, Blake. And when I said “the Val quotient will be missed” above, I didn’t mean it as a slight to you–great reports about your work Valentine’s Night and also the Austin Lost Highway thing. Welcome to the band, and the Midwest will rock come late April.
Ha Ha: 49 replies seemed a cyber typo, but with our wine-sipping (not to say -gulping) Lafayette doing individual play by play posts, perfectly understandable! I feel like I lived this show vicariously–in slow mo down tempo time. Good to know Blaze Foley has an entrepreneurial sibling still alive and kicking. Blake, looking forward to meeting you in Indy, where the Val quotient will be missed but the rhythm section alive and kicking. . . .
Well, our scribe WEst Words had the usual pen and pad, but in the absence of her report so far, I will compliment sir tntracy for nailing 17 out of the 18 main set songs. You list “Essence” twice my friend, probably because it was so damn smoking. “Honeybee” you lacked, song 18 (final one of main set). Your order is close, with “People Talkin'” and “Right in Time” earlier, “I Don’t KNow How…” later, etc. But solid memory. West Words needs to decipher that scribbled scrawl and set us all straight: Not a big night of Lu comments, but some which I know WW wrote down. Hope someone will pick up the ball for Austin and Okla. City (I feel “bigdunc” and “parkerca” getting ready even as I type); it’s been a great run for me. Heartland in late April? Quite probably.
And a shout-out to raindayman, my fellow ASU alum (not Arizona St. either)…
You guys are way too microscopically obsessed for me. I can’t even tell myself, but thanks for the scrutiny. 🙂
@paul_from_losangeles wrote:
Excellent show Tuesday night at the 930 Club in Washington, DC. Thank you to forum member “Like a Rose” and her mother for their company, watching my coat on the railing, and saving my floor-space during breaks.
I am flying home today, after 3 excellent shows. stoger is on an overnight Greyhound bus to North Carolina for the Asheville show, so his report may be delayed a bit.
The 930 Club setlist:
1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad
2. Fruits of My Labor
3. Metal Firecracker
4. Still I Long For Your Kiss
5. Pineola
6. Drunken Angel
7. Buttercup
8. I Don’t Know Why You’re Living
9. Sweet Old World
10. Born To Be Loved
11. Convince Me
12. Seeing Black
13. Essence
14. Unsuffer Me
15. Bleeding Fingers
16. Righteously
17. Changed the Locks
18. Honeybee
19. Blessed
20. Get Right With God
21. Joy
22. For What It’s WorthThanks for blowing my ‘Dog travel cover, Paul. Fine night indeed. Lu said little between songs, prompting one fan after “Convince Me” to shout out “Talk to us, Lu.” She then launched an MSNBC endorsement which segued into an anti-Glen Beck diatribe. Later, she semi-apologized for not pattering between songs, saying “But I’m here” in a way to make it clear that, if anyone even suspected otherwise, she was fully engaged in belting out these great songs in a very immediate way. One of the best shows.
Good work, Paul. “People Talkin'” had a slight false start (sound). “Pineola” had some F Stanford data “for those of you who have an interest in these things.” “Copenhagen” was described as “a very literal song.” “Get Right with God” had some spoken word in midst, e.g., “President Obama got right with God.” Dylan Leblanc hit some licks during that one and “Joy,” finally let go a bit. “Righteously” was weird and Lu smilingly said we’d never see that version again.
The venue seemed overwhelmed by my backpack upon arrival, the employee asking “is that a backpack you have?” To which, “mad-eyed from stating the obvious’ (Richard Wilbur), I replied “yes.” “Do you have a car” was her next query. Finally, the backpack was removed to a kind of broom closet for the duration. funny, it seemed one of dozens, hundreds, really among those checked at Museum of Modern Art earlier in the day, but utterly baffling at the Count Basie Theatre of Red Bank. I tried to explain New Jersey Transit straight from Manhattan, but it availed little.
When I entered setbreak, an usher pounced on me (“you’re just arriving?”). Subtext: shame shame for missing the opening act. then she said “are you with this gentleman?” as I followed Paul down aisle, our seats being adjacent. I was and I wasn’t, but Paul is nothing if not a “gentleman,” to be sure.
DC next
“Still I Long for Your Kiss,” “I Live My Life,” and “For What It’s Worth” were also tour debuts, in addition to “Atonement.”
Night two seemed a bit less uptempo as far as overall songs, but Lu was solid and happy. Good to see her essaying “Metal Firecracker” again with a smile, knocking it dead.
Day’s highlight: running into bigsubi and his wife mercedes in times square early afternoon, completely at random.
According to the Village Voice, here is what followed three-time Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams at 10 pm in the Webster Hall venue: Bad Boy Bill+Congorock, “presented by Girls & Boys.” I think the club needs to decide whether it is an outlet for recording artists or for weekend juvenile scenester bumping and grinding. I mean, I’m not sure you can be both–and I think I dealt with a couple of these “girls and boys” by way of incompetent, rude Webster employees. That said, it’s a beautiful historic building with good sightlines and acoustics. Just plan on lining up in the late afternoon and vacating the premises well before any union curfew if you choose to see an actual musical act there.
