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@vmorris wrote:

Tonight I had the pleasure of attending a ‘house concert’ with Anne McCue in Durham, NC (not at my house). Anne calls house concerts “the underground railroad for indie musicians.” Who knew?

This is for those members of the FF who have followed Anne since she opened for Lucinda on the Essence tour (I’m looking at you, stoger!). She has a new album coming out this Feb, called “Even Cowgirls Play The Blues.” Anne just got her U.S. residency and plans to be a citizen in two years 🙂

– I Want You Back
– Headlight on my Window
– Long Tall Story [not sure if this is the actual title] (“my first menage a trois song”)
– Dig Two Graves (great song off new album)
– Things You Left Out in the Rain (new single from new album)
– Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime
[Anne shares that her mother had eight children in 9-½ years, and Anne was the 8th child. Ouch. Anne jokes that she thanks the pope every day… so do we, Anne, so do we!]
– Milkman’s Daughter
[The performance of this song is one reason why I go to live shows of artists who actually write and perform their own songs. I’ve loved this song for awhile, but have never quite understood the lyrics. Anne gave its extended background, so I now know that Anne is the ‘Milkman’s Daughter’ and the lyrics are about her dad. This knowledge makes the song even more beautiful and meaningful. I understand the lyrics now.]
– Bessie Smith cover
– Lonesome Child
[Intermission! Fancy! Lots of activity at the makeshift merch table in the foyer, overseen by Anne.]
– Stupid (appears on the box set “Four Decades of Folk/Rock”, the first song of which is a Bob Dylan tune, and the last is this song by Anne)
– Ballad of an Outlaw Woman (requested by yours truly… she calls this one a ‘Freudian Western’)
[As she tunes her guitar and chats with the crowd, the host says “nice multitasking!” and Anne, without missing a beat, deadpans “it takes a woman.” Best comeback by a musician I’ve heard in a while 🙂 Anne proves herself very FUNEEEE during the show!]
– Roxanne
– Voodoo Child (she slays this as always)
– A Little White Cat Crossed My Path Today (“my first audience participation song”)
– Hangman
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– Say Bye Bye

Go buy the new album when it comes out, y’all, and definitely catch her on the tour in support of it. Sounds like she will have a tour bus and evr’thin! Viv

Great work, vm; we’re glad you are crashing others’ houses again. I haven’t heard “Stupid” in ages; did she trot out the sparkly blue guitar for that one? The Bessie cover was “Empty Bed Blues,” perhaps? Truth is, I wish I had caught on to Anne during the Essence era, but it was 2-3 years later. Thanks for reporting on our soon to be fellow citizen (will she vote blue when she is able?).

@tonyg wrote:

I might see you in Tucson. 8)

I might see y’all at either or both.

@vmorris wrote:

Yay! Hopefully the Friendly Forum will be alerted as to when tix go on sale (The Filmore shows are not for sale on their website yet). Otherwise, I just may have to break down and join Facebook for the latest 😯

Facebook? Facebook?

Thanks lwj; I was just on the High Road site yesterday, so these are real recent additions. How many are “com[ing]”out west [to] see come the New Year?

Ah, “back of book”–maybe an alternative spelling for the title track of the 2001 album? And a song already played?

Anyway, thanks for posting this Samish; let me add a few comments. I found a nice perch night one between the Pac Man game machine and a dusty food vending machine, stage left, not up front but not far back either. The view through the scrim of the diagonal staircase was a perfect angle on Lu (and David), though Butch and Stuart were not in frame. Security did a fine job herding people off a standing position on the staircase, so my view was never obstructed. I even succumbed to a sugar urge during “Foolishness,” readying myself for the rockers by punching in the code for a $1.25 Milky Way bar, successfully–only had to lean one pace to my right to do so. And I’m proud to report that I had to deny no one access to a round of Pac-Man, though a few drunken mutterers tried to squeeze in next to me periodically.

The red color says it all: I loved “Minneapolis,” and Lu introduced it briefly by noting she wrote it here while cutting the Essence (Essense?) record.

Lu mentioned in front of “Compassion” that only one of her father’s books is in print, called Some Jazz Awhile.

Only after “Honeybee” did Lu get around to reminding everyone that she got married on stage here.

A bra was thrown on stage during “Righteously,” which Lu fielded and mock tossed Stuart’s way. When he seemed to wave her off, she heaved it in Butch’s general direction, briefly putting it on the mike stand too.

a night two report please!!!!!!!!!!!

@Lafayette wrote:

Thanks for the reports, all! I was car jamming to “Stand Right By Me” on my Nashville trek on Monday. I hope Lu doesn’t give up on this song.

All reports point to an amazing three night stand in Music City. I hope everyone stays warm as you head north for the remainder of this tour.

Nice pun on “give up on. . .”, Lafayette!

@tonyg wrote:

Dare I ask what “mouth-to-mouth duetting” is? 😳

Excellent visual, Lafayette, to illustrate this: the phrase comes from Chuck Prophet circa 2002, when he and Stephanie Finch were doing this number on his song “After the Rain.”

1 Blessed
2 Metal Firecracker
3 Right in Time
4 Drunken Angel
5 West Memphis [completing a Mathis harmonica duo]
6 East Side of Town
7 Compassion [followed by “I guess that’s a kind of Thanksgiving song”]
8 When I Look at the World [“maybe a Thanksgiving song too”]
9 Lake Charles [“I lived with that one (Clyde)”; the “bad liver” comment is reprised as well]
10 Blue
11 2 Kool 2 B 4 Gotten [not only a false start, but Lu leaves the stage for about 90 seconds after some coughs: the boys gamely play on, and upon her return Lu says “Thanks, guys” and belts a version out which I bet our Japanese collector would die for]
12 Are You Down {Lu looks grateful for a tune with more instrumental than vocal to it at this point]
13 Hot Blood [preceded by “Y’all might not be able to stay in your seats for this one”–which axiom is proven true by a spirited lafayette jumping to her feet and swaying throughout]
14 Protection
15 Foolishness
16 Changed the locks
17 Essence
18 Righteously [with karaoke talk prior)
19 Honeybee [lafayette bathroom break/vmorris vin refill pours all around]
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20 Magnolia {Lu notes that she used to play it a lot back in the day]
21 Something About What Happens When We Talk RED INK ALERT, TG [with Leigh Ann Womack–Lu praises her new record and notes that “we voted for it” in the Grammy noms: also, Stuart gets an extra instrumental break]
22 Joy
23 Get Right With God

HOw nice to see various and sundry: Anne McCue and Lisa; Kelly a k a Music Lover; the aforementioned Vivian and lafayette; ddinnj and spouse Dominic; Shilah “Mama” Morrow; Peggy from California; Lillie Mae and her lookalike sister Grace; others to whom I apologize for forgetting. Kenneth and LM brought “Last Call” out of the mothballs for a little mouth-to-mouth duetting, short set be damned. I think the Forum is wrong here on them opening tonight and tomorrow. I must say I rate the facility higher than that September debacle, including the parking options. Please add stuff, others. Nash rocks in this pre-holiday mode.