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@TomOverby wrote:
Very astute Mr. Stoger. Perhaps there may even be an earlier street date in Europe to coincide with the tour?
So where is the best record store in Dublin? Let’s rock.
Early February is great; perhaps those attending the January Europe shows might get an “advance” purchase option ’round the merch booth?
@tonyg wrote:
Ahem. Begin the excitement phase, please. 8)
It’s 8:21 Pacific time and 10:21 Nash time: let’s hear it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@DDinNJ wrote:
I love the way this set list made it to the Forum. What a group effort!
Aw shucks, ma’am, I’m just the middleman facilitator (read, incapable of cutting and pasting an individual email onto a group Forum). But yes, in the words of the Chuck Prophet song simply called “Credit,” “give me some CREDITuh huh. . .”
@TomOverby wrote:
Crazy day yesterday -as Lu explained during the show. First the Uber driver didn’t show up so we grabbed a cab and he got us close to the venue but then just pulled at which point we had our own debate -about where the hell we were. SO we circled the block and Lu saw the marquee and we got out there -then found tour mgr Chris and walked around to the back entrance. A big deep breath was needed at that point. But all’s well that ends well.
The title is The Ghosts Of Highway 20
Thanks for the plural clarification on the title. Makes sense that Vicksburg, Jackson, Macon, etc. might all have separate ghostly auras.
South St. Philly is probably not the place you want to be a pedestrian making the block. Uber is not infallible, this proves, but it probably is superior overall to cabs.
Thanks you two. The full title is “Ghost of Highway 20”; I’ve just been abbreviating it. I think it’s “Ghost” singular, that is. I’d like to think the coughing during “Dust” (and what an appropriate title for that to happen during) was at exactly the same point in time when Bernie Sanders was asked about his cannabis use in the Democratic debate. Yes, TLA was one of my first Lu shows ever, summer ’02, Chuck prophet playing the Buick 6 role. Good times, good mems.
Excellent! The second and third songs are among my favorites to hear live, and you got “Dust” too! I actually postponed my drive to west TN by a few hours, after my early Sunday evening landing at the Nashville airport: Jackson Browne (with Greg Leisz and Larry Campbell et. al.) at the new Ascension Ampitheatre in downtown Nash. A “Pretender” to rival Lu’s cover of same on the tribute album. . . Still, I would have chosen Poughkeepsie had work duty not been calling Monday morn.
1 Something Wicked
2 Real Live Bleeding
3 Metal Firecracker
4 Drunken Angel
5 Those 3 Days
6 West Memphis
7 Ghost of Highway 20
8 When I Look
9 Lake Charles
10 Fruits [thanks to Iowa Mike and Iowa Doris for the prompt here]
11 Lines Around Your Eyes
12 Are You Down
13 Protection
14 Come On
15 Hot Blood
16 Essence
17 Righteously
18 Honeybee19 Should I
20 The Rising
21 Joy
22 Rockin in the FreeDDiNJ, please supplement!
This was the show where Lu shared marquee space with “Elevate Church.” (service at 11:15 a.m., concert at 8 p.m.). What a Sabbath. I sent Tom a photo of it, but it’s probably not worthy of posting, given my lowgrade cellphone.
@DDinNJ wrote:
What a fun night. Mr S and VMo in the house, great company!!! Oh Lord, I so hate to do this, Song #21 The Rising. Needed to Be Right With God, to survive the drive over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at 6 am on Sunday.
Holy crap, I even reflected out loud that it was a weird set without “Are You Down” or “Get Right,” then I blew the list. No shame in correcting me Dawn, in art and in life. I will now edit my gaffe away in this thread.
@tonyg wrote:
Have fun Coffee! We are not gone. I don’t think. 8)
Come On, Tony: if the devil went down to Georgia, you can go to a Charlie Daniels show. We’re all just good ol boys, after all.
There’s a masked man stage left of the next-to-last photo, a real greybeard of a black-n-green t-shirt wearer.
As someone your junior Randy, I too appreciate the marquees. In Bloomington Lu’s 8 p.m. show shared marquee space with the 11:15 a.m. “Elevate Church” event. Hopefully, the photo I sent Tom will make an appearance when his show comments do.
Signed, The Youthful One
@Railroad wrote:
Fantastic show. It has to be up there with the very best I’ve attended. Much more of a high-energy crowd than night #1 and Lu loved every minute of it. She says all through the night a variation of “Wow, you guys are great!”
She starts with recognizing Variety Playhouse for their 25th anniversary and states how she truly loves “this real rock-and-roll venue”. She recollects her shows here long ago.
1. Protection
2. Real Life Bleeding Fingers…
3. Can’t Let Go
4. Pineola
5. Drunken Angel
6. East Side of Town
7. Ghosts of Hwy. 20. (Lu) She mentions the bluesmen and other history along this road and the places she used to live, and that “you guys know where all those towns are”.
8. If There’s a Heaven. (Lu) Intimate new song about death and a “before you let go of my hand” request to let me know what’s on the other side. I noticed some tears in the crowd. Chilling.
9. Lake Charles (Lu and Stu)
10. Side of the Road. She refers to how much she likes the 1994 cover by Dave Schramm. Said that was a bit of “song trivia for you”.
Said she was going to pick up the pace a bit, tips her hat to her “great band”, and heads into…
11. Are You DownNow the real fun starts…
12. Seeing Black. Starts by tying the song to the late Vic Chesnutt. All good for the first half of the song but she notices the lyric sheet is missing! With the four on stage looking wide-eyed at each other and Lu with that “Oh shit, what do we do now” expression, the band ably covers the impasse (stalls?) while Justin is frantically flipping through the off-stage lyric book. He looks up to Lu with a negative head nod. The decision is made to just kill the song right there. The crowd erupts with lots of laughs and applause. Great support to Lu which she soaks up in a positive way.
13. Come OnFlipping through her lyric book, stumbles across the page for…
14. Those Three Days. This was #4 alternate on the set list but was subbed because of the misplaced lyric sheet. She said “I’m going back for this one.” A real crowd pleaser.Again flipping through the book she finds the missing page for…
15. Seeing Black. Tells the band “let’s do it again.” This time, all the way through. Great version.
16. Foolishness
17. Unsuffer Me
18. Essence
19. Righteously. By now there’s red wine and beer on the stage. She dances like I’ve not seen before. Finally, she needs a partner. She pulls Justin from the side stage shadows and they cut a rug to a wild audience reaction. A fantastic, unexpected moment. Lu is grooving.
20. Honeybee
21. Stop Breaking Down (Lu and Stu)
22. Joy
23. Should I Stay or Should I Go. The alternate to #21. We got it anyway. She just didn’t want to quit tonight.
24. Keep On Rocking…Leaving the stage so obviously appreciative of the crowd enthusiasm. Multiple bows before she stole away.
I have to tip my own hat to Stuart. He gets better and better every time I see him. Sutton told me tonight that “Yeah, he’s really owning it.” I heartily agree. I’ve never seen him with a banjo until tonight and he’s killer at that as well. Imagine a banjo through Stu’s floor of pedals! I think he just invented something!
PS. Had a nice chat with Matt Blake after the show. If you’re not catching his music yet, shame on you. He’s a great musician and lyricist. Check him out today!
Great stuff, Randy, especially the dancing with Justin bit and the specifics on “If There’s a Heaven,” which I’ve only heard once. I found that Schramms record a few years back in a used bin at Antone’s REcords of Austin: mighty fine. And I’m glad the great late Georgian Vic Chesnutt was honored in full with my favorite song among the Lu live rocker-set choices.
