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@Lefty wrote:
Professor: Will we see you in the People’s Republic on the 25th?
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/back-to-rockville/article96426947.html
No Lefty, you will have to relieve me after Cincinnati for the Ithaca affair. Hopefully, you won’t get a lot of right-handed pinch hitters who might tee off on your curve ball breaking in to them. I leave the tour in good hands, I trust.
@SamishSeaMike wrote:
Started this thread with hopes that it will turn into Lucinda related…. 😉
This years HSB festival in Golden Gate Park (Sept 30 – Oct 3) started releasing their first round of line-up info(Roseanne Cash, The Mother Hips, Buddy Miller & Marc Ribot, Elephant Revival, Bobby Bare, Mavis Staples, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The California Honeydrops, CAKE, and The Infamous Stringdusters) . They release ten or so artists at a time leading up to the festival.
No Lucinda on the list yet.. but I recall last year hearing that most artists that do the festival do so every other year and after her 2014 festival debut… I’m thinking.. maybe. Just booked an Amtrak (Stoger inspired) and room for…. those three days.
Here’s hoping… either way great (free!) festival in the park! -Mikethat Coast Starlight is a mighty fine choo-choo train, Mr. Mike. Luxury digs a la Manhattan?
@vmorris wrote:
A friend at The Bells: A Daylong Celebration of Lou Reed said that Lu was “heartbreaking.”
Confirmed.
“Lou Reed has been the subject of countless tributes since his death in 2013. If this Laurie Anderson-organized affair isn’t the best, it’s certainly the most comprehensive. After opening with a tai chi lesson from Mr. Reed’s former master, it includes both an 11:30 am concert featuring local punks from David Johansen to Jessie Malin and later, an evening show focused exclusively on his love songs.”
–Nick Murray, New York Times“Few humans write lyrics as tightly as Lucinda Williams. Each detail–a television set left on, the memory of a ZZ Top dance party–seems to reveal a universe. So it figures that her concerts would be defined by their looseness. ONstage, Ms. Williams is always changing not just the songs she plays but also the subjects of the rambling tangents she pursues in between. This free concert [Thursday] will also feature Thao & the Get Down Stay Down and iLe.”
–MurrayHow about two more NYC freebies to bookend this, the Saturday before and the Saturday after:
http://lincolncenter.org/show/the-bells-a-daylong-celebration-of-lou-reed
http://lincolncenter.org/show/americanafest-nyc-roots-of-american-music-the-last-waltz-40th-anniversary-celebration-parker-millsap
Don’t let the names Victoria or Parker fool you. I believe our gal is part of both events.
So you find yourself in a major American city, but you don’t get hands on its alternative weekly paper until 7:45 p.m. There you find that Hayes Carll is playing one venue, tony Joe White another, that very evening. Dilemma ensues, but opening acts are listed for both (though not showtimes), so you feel good about public transit getting you to one or the other. What would YOU do, reader?
Despite his harmonica
and some other gear not making it in the checked luggage, Mr. white and his drummer made it in style. No merch, even though the new record just came out. Some really fine stuff, new and old–and of course “Polk Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia.” I didn’t hang out, but “Something Wicked” and “West Memphis” were much on my mind to thank him for.P.S. [and only slightly related to topic]: Name the former Lu band member who is know officially a Jayhawk.
What do you say when you show up for a Rod Picott happy hour/residency and you get Amy Speace, Tim Easton, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Steve Polz, and the __________ Ponies (“Lost” maybe?) taboot? Five bucks, Five Spot, turned out to be a benefit for the musician Megan Palmer that Rod had given up his Wed. July residency slot for. I talked to most of the principals. Tasjan is a Blaze Foley fanatic and has seen the documentary about him which Gurf Morlix toured with “many many times.” His account of the man’s death did not involve “a senseless bar fight,” but we won’t go there. Easton and I relived the days when he opened the Lu/Doug duo tour, with some talk of how the Stuart one varied. Polz just moved from San Diego to Nash and fronted a rousing “Folk Singer,” a satirical tune I’m not sure is a cover or an original. Speace is headed to the UK to tour with Emily Barker, and I believe they will open for Mary Chapin Carpenter. Her TM Andy Washington, whom I saw in London, was mentioned from the stage as being tuned in to the Podcast of this whole Palmer benefit evening. Kudos to the Five Spot, which is more than just your average ABC show Nashville backdrop. Late shows I can take or leave, but these residencies with folks like Kevin Gordon and David Olney are gems from month to month, sometimes Mondays sometimes Wednesdays.
@skittleshanks wrote:
she laffed at them big balls the kids were rollinj about inj
“big balls?” Guess the band IS back, at that. . .
Almost makes me sorry I bailed pre-Ireland, have seen Wilco three or four times in US. “Unsuffer Me” is a real marker that the band is back!
@vmorris wrote:
I can’t imagine Atonement with Lu and Stu only — I hope to experience it someday!
I heard it not only solo but a cappella once (Lu’s gigs with her father reading his poetry, “Poetry Sung, Poetry Said” I think the series was called.
@vmorris wrote:
The “music for old people” comment is definitely not true, but I must say that, given a choice, I’d opt for music by and for people who have lived some life!
true, but the crowd is even more graying in Europe than the States: significantly. All these university towns, few if any coeds, in Holland or Germany.
@Gordon wrote:
A really great show in lovely venue in Glasgow. I enjoyed this even more than Concert Hall earlier this year.
1. Doors of Heaven
2. Drunken Angel
3. East Side of Town
4. Those 3 Days
5. Fruits of my labour
6. Jackson
7. Ghosts of Highway 20
8. Compassion
9. Blue
10. House of earth
11. Lake Charles
12. Temporary nature
13. Bitter Memory
14. Sweet Side
15. Essence
16. Change the locks
17. Joy18. You Gotta move
19. Hard Time killing Floor Blues (abandoned)
20. Atonement
21. Pale blue eyes
22. Something About What Happensthanks for stepping up, Gordon; if you liked this one better than the January Glasgow show, that should offer some encouragement to Lu, Stuart, and the camp. I believe it was the last duo show of this run.
Wow, “Atonement” and especially “Something…” in the encore, a nice way to go out. Hard Time KFB had been going well, sorry to hear it was “abandoned” (unless you mean capital “A” and a substitution was made with that great, little performed gem from the self-titled record). Hopefully, the house was decent sized for this gig.
No doubt David and Butch have landed in UK by now to “save the day.” Quotation marks partially needed, just partially.
@TomOverby wrote:
The Stoger is a bit off his game.
You Got To Move was after Joy. And A Change Is Gonna Come and Blessed followed passionate Kisses.
Fatigue, utter. Notice I didn’t even try to post the Glasgow list. And Mr. Tony, unfortunately the Newcastle venue was an ornate theatre and opera house with multiple levels and the names of great playwrights and composers emblazoned throughout the stalls. In Norwich, it was more like a club with seats down for the night; the crowd was somewhat bigger too. No missing the low turnout in Newcastle.
@Lafayette wrote:
Lu playing Cincinnati on Aug 23. Nice little venue, seats approximately 400.
I am CRUSHED. I bought tickets months ago to see Don Henley on Aug 23 with my husband. A Henley concert was our first date, we married exactly 3 years later. I can’t bail. This is the day after my birthday, too! Would have been perfect.
Last year, Lu came thru Cincinnati while I was on vacation. I just can’t catch a break to see her in my hometown. The 20th Century Theater is fairly close to my house, too.
I need to go find some chocolate and a bottle of wine to drown my disappointment. 😥
http://www.the20thcenturytheatre.com/concerts.html
Dad gum it Lafa, just when I was finessing how to deal with the start of fall term classes that week to be by your side, and an Eagle interferes. Lucky Bob I guess. It would be good (for you at least) if this were one of those Lu openers for Henley, which have happened twice or thrice and have somewhat puzzled me in their sequencing. But at any rate, let conjugal matrimony triumph. . . .
