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@TOverby wrote:
Too early to say -just had the opportunity to do it with the same person who did the album shows, and I had a feeling these shows could be very unique, so I really wanted to get one on film. Our guy said he got some really great footage. We got some great after show footage also. One of Lucinda’s teachers from her Fayetteville college days in 1971 was there. She had told Lucinda back then not to pursue a music career, and they were talking about that last night. Pretty hilarious.
Ha: they advised Einstein to stay away from quantum data and particle theory too, before he dropped out of high school–think I glimpsed this very woman in the wings myself.
LWJ, you forget nothing from this Forum, obviously. I will elaborate briefly on my Ann Arbor setlist–and sorry for the typo on song six title. A sharp Forum moderator would have corrected that by now 😀 😀
No sidewalk brawls, though when I arrived circa 7:20 asking if will call line was separate from doors line, the Ark staff members (volunteers?) on the pavement with clipboards could not answer the question. So I proceeded to the Alley Bar on Liberty and Main, deciding to take my chances on a single seat later in the evening, as my friend from East Lansing was not able to attend after all. Beverage-imbibing at the Alley Bar did not involve a five-dollar minimum up front, as I later found out was the Ark’s policy. Something about license to sell booze requiring each patron to sign up and make this minimum donation; maybe that was what the clipboards were for all along. Anyway, I don’t begrudge the venue this amount, but ended up as a popcorn-only Ark concessions patron as it happened. When I was ready to enter just before opener, a volunteeer usher intercepted me and led me to an empty, three seats from an aisle. It was a fine spot, fourth row stage right as it happened, but I kind of felt perfectly capable of roaming the room myself and eagle-eyeing any singles remaining. I would call the staff attentive. I would call the venue insular. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty to admire about the folks who have maintained a room like this through the years, moving it a time or two I believe. Lucinda enjoyed playing there. But I must say I’ve got a certain jones for the more impersonal houses down the line on this tour, e.g., DC 9:30 club, where a man can enter and exit at will, can skip or listen to the opening act without notice taken, according to his whim. I’m saying this about Erie and Ann Arbor both (though the spaces couldn’t be more different in most ways): way too much hands-on staff focus. All I need is that wild man with a dozen body ring piercings to handstamp me on V Street as I enter the 9:30 club and let the evening unfurl from there, really. So now I will hear from Ann Arborites defending their haunt, and that’s OK. As for any Detroiters last night, didn’t meet them. . .
Filter filter, singular for now
1 W Without Tears [aborted after first 3 syllables but subsequently nailed]
2 Side of the Road
3 I Don’t Know How…
4 Lake Charles
5 Pineola
6 Crescet City
7 Ugly Truth
8 Bus toB R
9 Everything Has Changed [with talk of how “relevant” this song is to the political situation]
10 Born to be Loved
11People Talkin’
12 Fruits of my Labor
13 Well Well Well
14 I Lost It
15 Concrete & BW [“I don’t know how Steve Earle does it,” it being remembering lyrics without book or teleprompter]
16 Buttercup
17 Can’t Let Go
18 Down the Big Road Blues [with pause to say “I know it’s nasty” during calf/cow sequence]
19 Honeybee [robert Johnson lauded]
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20 Jackson [with Dylan L]
21Get Right w god [Rev. G Davis and Fred McDowell shout-outs]
22 Changed the L23 Joy
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24 BlessedThis blogger must have gotten 8+ hours slumber the night before; it’s a good recap, though I believe he got Blind Willie Johnson wrong, Pearlie Brown I think it is. Last night’s show disproves a Lu touring cliche which I myself have been guilty of espousing: That she needs a fired-up dance club crowd standing up close to really let it loose. The groove was there from almost start to finish last night–with as sedate a crowd as I’ve ever seen. Yet people were into it, just quiet about it. Lucinda was absolutely superb, grooved.
I myself went on quite a quest to land Blessed, as I still prefer to nab an in-person retail copy of such things day of their release. When in Erie. . . I first trudged to a little joint on the corner of 21st and Parade called Sundance Records, on the strength of [again old school] a yellow pages ad. It looked navigable on foot from my motel, but Erie-ites have mixed success at clearing their sidewalks of sludge and ice. Within a block or so, I knew I was on a fool’s mission, though the place existed and the proprietor was nice to me. “My shipment hasn’t arrived yet” was his response to HER name and the new title, as high school kids got off the bus and swarmed his store for its candy shelves and its general neighborhood gathering place ambiance. At least that was an authentic response on the employee’s part. Not so at south Erie’s Best Buy, where I thought to sojourn in the name of purchasing from a former Tom Overby employer. Two Megans succeeded in producing zero copies–though the 9.99 Best Buy “exclusive” tag was clearly on the shelves. When I asked if a computer figure of zero in store meant they had sold all the stock this one day, whether they never got any in, or whether multiple copies might be in back storage, Megan II was clueless. The “management team,” of the other gender, had the same look of slack-jawed inanition as they stood around, so I left in the name of the fye chain (an outfit which got a fiery letter from me to the Tennessee district manager just last year), but Barnes & Noble’s marquee saved the day; I scored the last of 3 “model” copies in store. The clerk confirmed two people had indeed purchased that day, but I never quite fathomed what “model” meant. So all you online shoppers and pre-shippers: well done, you may convert me to your methods. Still, a copy in hand for headphones on way to venue…
Nice watering hole near campus/venue called The Cornerstone Bar & Grill: thanks security for directions. This place has a way to go in big-time concert prep, though the employees were nice. Clearly missing the opening act and arriving fashionably late baffled everyone, including the patrons of my [third] row. “The artist will not be meeting fans after” said a sign on the merch table, but I set about to circumvent that if I could. Four, count them four, empty seats graced the first row, after all my phone woes in getting a ticket day of opening sales way back when; still, it’s nice that people actually lining up day of this got best seats, though how about those 4 noshows?
Best to all from the road…
“Ugly Truth” is my new fave of the newbies, lwj, but do we have other details about this truncated set/evening? I skipped it.
Nice seeing West Words, lafayette, and tntracy again in Nelsonville: Thanks to them and others for this stream. Just a few added things:
Kudos to the setlist compiler
for the “Pearl” pair, i.e., “Memphis Pearl” in slot four and “Port Arthur” about Janis-Pearl three songs later. Also, I believe we can call the Loretta cover back-back with “Well Well Well” a little Appalachian subset in middle of the proceedings: The line “if you hang around trash. . .” got quite a rise from the fans in the north of this region.West Words captured the political stuff well; at one point Lu berated political correctness and manipulation of gender pronouns; she couldn’t remember the queen city of pc to disparage it by name, but Northampton, I fear she meant YOU.
Later Lu took a more conventional liberal stance, Wisconsin doings etc., and I believe “f_____ sexist pigs” came out of her mouth at that point. Contradiction? Maybe, but Lu’s large, she contains multitudes, etc etc
@West Words wrote:
Great show, awesome sound, appreciative & engaged audience, and surprise guest appearance by Over the Rhine. More details tomorrow.
1) Are You Alright?
2) Side of the Road
3) Jackson
4) Sweet Old World
5) The Night’s Too Long
6) Crescent City
7) I Don’t Know How You’re Livin’
8 Born To Be Loved
9) Everything Has Changed
10) World Without Tears
11) Make The World Go Away
12) Well, Well, Well
13) Concrete and Barbed Wire
14) Buttercup
15) Real Live Bleeding Fingers
16) Changed The Locks
17) Motherless Children
18) Honey BeeEncore
19) Lonely Girls
20) Ugly Truth
21) Undamned
22) Joy
23) Get Right With God
24) BlessedThanks for doing the grunt work, West Words. Where I am is at lafayette’s house, bouncing back from a fine evening with much travel and minimal sleep involved; my narrative additions here will be brief.
“Jackson” and “Crescent City” were dedicated specifically to Lu’s sister Karen, an Indiana resident in attendance last night; the siblings had not seen each other, apparently, in 7-8 years, and Karen and friend were escorted back after show to meet Lu.
By implication, song one and song seven referenced their brother Robert, though he was not mentioned by name.
Patty Loveless got quite a nod prior to song five.
“Honeybee” was called a “good bad boy song” or, alternatively, just a “good boy song.”
Song eleven is a Hank Cochran song, and 21 was written by Karin and Linford (sp?) from Over the Rhine.
Hopefully, this account will satisfy those clamoring for data.
Just picked up a gritty newsprint version (some might say the “real” version) of this on the corner of W. Sixth and College Ave., West Words. Below the short article is a vertical listing of ten “things you may not know about her”–9.5 of which I knew, but still. Standard file “courtesy photo” up top. I’ll save this copy for you, provided you still like to handle “actual, physical newspapers.”
Bus steps descended, luggage dropped, marquee sighted, tickets picked up, public library computer logged onto. Drive safely you Georgians and Ohioans. We’ll keep this watering hole in mind for late afternoon/early evening.
Thanks to you two soberer boys (in pre-red wine, pre-aftershow mode at least) for correcting me on the order of two new songs. By midday today I had figured out that “. . . Livin'” had been done, and that “Buttercup” made more sense near end of setlist, surrounded by relative rockers. You could tell that Lu wanted to do “Knowing,” so thanks for the explanation. I’d say it more than worked out.
Ah those Spanish cities. That Metal Firecracker squeezed its way through the streets of Barcelona, bigsubi, as you well remember. May you witness a form of it plying the avenues of Manhattan come March… .
Thanks,Tom: just now reading this after Milwaukee experience, so I see West was represented before the tour ever hit Wisconsin. “Fancy Funeral” indeed! Great variance, though that 250 minimum food/drink cover mentioned in another stream gives a fan pause. Would a lone wolf with a backpack who might have nabbed a corner bar stool (if Dakota even sells such slots) been subject to this level of consumption to retain his seat? Wish I had been there to find out. . .
@tonyg wrote:
Did she play any music?
Tony, allow me to take this comment literally.
1 Side of the Road
2 Jackson [Madison political talk prefaces this]
3 Lake Charles [much much Clyde info prior, adding to the legend]
4 Pineola
5 Crescent City
6 Bus to Baton Rouge
7 Everything Has Changed [West tour debut?]
8 Born to be Loved [“a love song to the world, not just one person”]
9 Ugly Truth [my first hearing of it]
10 Well Well Well
11 Concrete & Barbed Wire
12 I Lost It
13 Buttercup
14 World Without Tears
15 Fruits of My Labor
16 Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
17 [PAUL, HELP ME OUT: NEW ONE HERE PERHAPS?]
18 Honeybee
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19 Hard Time Killing Floor Blues [Depression-era, updated in LUspeak]
20 Changed the Locks [which Lu insists she now sees in a political, as well as personal, light]
21 Joy
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22 Kiss Like Your Kiss
23 BlessedWell, perhaps I too went a bit much for the “enjoyment” angle, as I expected Paul to beat me to this list and that I could mop up, rather than vice versa. Pardon the blank above and the slight uncertainties. As for the Madison protest topic, I have little to add to the fray here. I did meet a fella at restaurant next door who compared the current teacher/govt. protestors unfavorably with the blue-collar laborers of yore, yet this guy (Jack I think, who drove from Mad. without a ticket but nabbed one at face) had some sympathy for the protestors. It’s correct that the crowd was overwhelmingly pro-collective b.
A newylwed couple shouted out “Knowing” early in the game, there was talk of looking for Book pages for it, but Lu ultimately forgot to do it. She did reference them in second encore, dedicating “Kiss” their way.
Kevin is back as front house sound. Nick, in cut-offs and a tank top,* is guitar tech. Skeletal crew. That lax devil Eric F as tour manager. Local DJ working the merch booth, no Susannah in sight. Canada?
I must say I’ll have to work up to Dylan L as opener. Turner was the largest hall he’d played (and it’s not that large), but the crowd up front tried to give him some energy. In this case, it’s the audience which needs THE LYRIC BOOK, not the performer.
* full dress suit as usual, actually.
For those who still like “the actual, physical newspaper,” I have one of these in my possession, sullying the tips of my fingers with every re-reading of this [pretty perceptive] interview/article. Wednesday being the hub day for weekly independent papers (but not for travelers), the new, subsequent issue had actually hit the free bins around town by the time I arrived, but I managed to commandeer a stray copy of last week’s from the ledge in front of the Pabst box office. Boola boola.
