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I”ll stick to “Sweet Home Alabama,” Tony–it’s Emmylou’s birth state. Samish might beat me to it Thursday, though.
@Lafayette wrote:
Okay, thanks, Tom. I was wondering if I should post. It was very personal, but I did think riveting. I’ll delete if you think best. Anything posted in the forum, I believe, can be pulled up when doing google searches with the right key words.
Oops.
@DDinNJ wrote:
The venue is an old Masonic Temple which was vacant for years, and was one of the creepiest places in town.
Spoken like a native daughter of that burgh/township. . .
@Lefty wrote:
Special guest, Erika Wennerstrom … well, well, well
Kisses – solo acoustic
Can’t Let Go
Pineola
Prove My Love
Drunken Angel
West Memphis
Ghosts of Hwy 20 – solo acoustic
Lake Charles (w/ Stuart)
Bitter Memory (w/ Stuart & David)
Greenville
Copenhagen
Protection
Seeing Black
Dust
Essence
FoolishnessRighteously
Get Right with GodBet you didn’t buy her* a drink, though, did you lefty? Don’t beat my time now.
Copenhagen and Seeing Black same set?? Oh my God.
* EW of the HB, of course
Can’t help with paragraph two, but Ray Wylie rocks. Lu sang on one track of an older RWH record, with the title I want to say Kings of Crimson–or something close to that. I believe her contribution is the title track. I saw him in Memphis the other week and hope to again in Nashville come the summer.
@DDinNJ wrote:
Blessed
Pineola
Metal Firecracker-Tour bus reference “and that’s all I am going to say about that”
Car Wheels-discussion about a possible autobiography in the works
He Never Got Enough Love/Driving Down A Dead End Street- Driving Down A Dead End St was the original lyric. However, Dylan released his same titled song. The song was changed. Recorded now in its intended version to be release in Sept
Ventura
GOH20
Bitter Memory
Side of the Road
Memphis Pearl
Born to be Loved
Can’t Close the Door
Real Live Bleeding Fingers
Out Of Touch
Atonement
Changed The Locks
Honey BeeRighteously
Get Right With GodHoping I got this right. Passing it over to someone in Albany.
Thanks, D. But the baton’s back to you in Berklee, no? Can you believe “Born to be Loved” got done? Had
Stuart even ever played on that one/ A Blake Mills gem, but I bet our man Mathis nailed it.@backstreets wrote:
Any other possible Midwest dates? KC, Omaha, anywhere in Kansas!?
I can’t speak for Tom, Mike, but a bus can’t get from Boulder (31 July) to Birmingham–er, I mean Atlanta (Aug. 10) without hitting up the Midwest in some sense. I believe dates will be announced soon; I figure to see you in August!
@DDinNJ wrote:
Can’t Let Go
ButterCup
Pineola
Lines Around Your Eyes
Drunken Angel
Burning Bridges
Bitter Memory
GOH20
Lake Charles
Going Where the Lonely Go -from the Merle Haggard Tribute
West Memphis
Dust
Out of Touch
Changed The Locks
Essence
Unsuffer Me
Atonement
Foolishness
RighteouslyRebel Rebel
Should I StayAlways great seeing The King of the Road.
Dear Queen, Thanks for bailing me out here, as I would have scarce remembered the Haggard title. I think Lu intended to play that a few nights earlier and it never got off the ground; it was nice to get it in Jersey, with a beaming Lu reprising it from the Nashville tribute.
Really the only song that got much of a unique intro was “Atonement,” most notably the mention by name of Harry Dean Stanton in the role of the blind shyster preacher Asa Hawks in the movie version of Wise Blood. She said the Southern Gothic can be “perplexing” to people but went to great lengths to convey her enthusiasm both for Flannery O’Connor and director John Huston’s film treatment of Wise Blood.
Let us hear from you on the Ramshead front.
Feeling none too royal back down on the farm in Tennessee, “stoger”
Where’d you learn to use those bracketed comments, Lafayette? I hope the show was enjoyed by three–and more.
@backstreets wrote:
A rainy night at the mansion on the hill in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa.
It’s Gonna Rain
People Talkin’
Crescent City
Lines Around Your Eyes
Drunken Angel
East Side of Town
Bitter Memory (Lu, Stu and David)
Ghosts of Highway 20 (Lu)
When I Look at the World (Lu)
Lake Charles (Lu)
The Knowing
Ventura
Are You Down
Protection
Out of Touch
Changed the Locks
Blessed
FoolishnessHoney Bee
JoyLu’s voice sounded great!
Oh my God, those first three alone make me wish my Sabbath were “on the hill” instead of the airplane. Some real departures from norm/form, thanks to Tom and to Lu. And the homeboy put Facebook into play for song six, unless I miss my guess. thanks.
Thanks, Paul. Here are a few extras:
There was a very minor “false start” during song two, but Lu smiled through it.
The newly titled “Drivin’. . .” is Butchless. Lu stopped in the middle, backtracked slightly, then nailed it.
Emmylou got a shout-out in front of “SOW.”
Lu flubbed/repeated some lyrics during “Little Brother.” I was glad the familiar “Pineola” was next in sequence and that she launched boldly right into it.
Before “Lines,” Lu referred to the whole album as her “stepchild,” calling it a “hodgepodge” of tunes. After, she implied that if anyone thought the production history of Car Wheels long and difficult, SOW was even more “complex, complicated.”
Sidewalks and Memphis Pearl were both said to be influenced by her time living in LA (the first go-round). She said the city was more “constant” (???) now.
After song twelve, Lu pronounced that album “now off the turntable” and launched into the ones Paul listed. I thought “Buttercup” was especially strong. Among the SOW material, the new take on “Prove My Love” is really working for me.
Oh, she also said between “Which Will” and “Bitter M” that she kind of sees SOW as “sandwiched between the Rough Trade and Car Wheels” in her career.
“I Lost It” was said to have “held up pretty well.”
Bowie’s “Rebel RebeL” was said to be “the sexiest song ever written.”
Good to see backstreets and wife from Iowa, Vivian, Paul.
OK OK I got the newly titled song a bit wrong, but thanks to Tom for his post via Tony. And who recognizes Beatle Bob from the front row of the bottom pic? He may have been kicked out of 80% of the music venues in the city, but you won’t see Lu at the Pageant without the man’s Liverpoolish mane.
@vmorris wrote:
Excellent recaps above! The Peel is such a great venue, and I loved sharing front and (almost) center with WestWords!
I also liked Lu’s quotes from Wise Blood in the post-Atonement introduction to Foolishness. Lu notes that Hazel Motes declares: “I’m gonna start me a new church… It’s gonna be called ‘The Church of Jesus Christ, without Jesus Christ!'” And she also cracks up over the quote: “A man with a good car don’t need to be justified!” Of the book, she says, “It was just brilliant.” The current running from Flannery to Lu is strong and we are luckier for it.
Viv
Thanks, Viv, I forgot to post that O’Connor stuff and actual quotes from the novel, after the song. Both Flannery O and director John Huston got a shout-out.
I thought Lafayette was going to post St. Louis night two; I’ll try to do so soon.
@Rainydayman wrote:
I was there. It’s always great to see Lucinda at the Peel. Thanks for making the effort to drive to the mountains of NC. THAT was a fun show.
Sorry we didn’t touch base, rainydayman; your name came up in pre-dinner discussion in barleys, among vmorris, westwords, and myself. Glad you attended–and go gold and black!!!
