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@tonyg wrote:
Plan to Marry for sure, right? And the Robert Johnson and Skip James covers? 😕
Maybe the James cover was a tour debut, but the Johnson wasn’t. I’m pretty sure “Like a Rose” deserves the red designation befitting the final word of its title: geez, haven’t heard that one in ages. Hellfire, maybe there really will be FOUR encores one night in Nash–it’s getting close to that plateau. So much for a “tired” Lu walking on in Cleveland: eee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Maybe “I Lost It” is a tour debut also?
I think I knew Lu’s take on the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Foley and Stanford, but this “bad liver” comment may be a newbie on Clyde Woodward. [Doesn’t Hayes Carll have a song called “Bad Liver and a Broken Heart”?]
I got excited about the blog’s “four encore” comment, but two of them totaling five songs will work nicely indeed.
Thanks T and T and lwj.
@tonyg wrote:
From Tom:
As good as the shows have been this very well might have been the best on this leg so far. The band was on fire —Stuart has been playing with a injured finger since smashing it in a case in Dallas-and hasn’t said much about it and it definitely didn’t show tonight. Lu’s solo version of When I Look At The World was a stunner -you could’ve heard a pin drop. Great versions of Something Wicked and Foolishness as well.
Gotta take the long way to Toronto to avoid the snow storm -here’s hoping we make it. 2 more tour debuts brings the count up to 63.”thanks ducknapped–and how about spilling some red ink here and in the Toronto thread, tonyg?
Maybe 2 Kool was a tour debut also? Or perhaps not.
Yeah, lafayette and I were close to scoring Matt’s CD in Lex, but it didn’t work out. In addition to the Pettibone and Lu components, former Love Band members Taras Produniak, Phil Parlipiano (sp?), and Jim Christie play throughout.
I’ve seen Sexsmith open for Lu in Memphis in ’01, also a couple of his headlining shows in the States, which draw considerably smaller crowds than his Canadian outings, I suspect. I believe Ron and his wife are tight with Lu and Tom.
@Lefty wrote:
Great report, long-distance friend. Sorry I missed your call last night. Sounds like it was a GOOD time. Way to pull the “stoger card” for that 33% discount! I may try that at the bowling alley this weekend!
bowling alleys no, but my moniker is good as gold at most pool halls in North America, Lefty.
@tonyg wrote:
Here is a review of Anne’s fantabulous show at the Hotel Cafe last Saturday, attended my many persons including yours very truly. I was honored to person her merch table and sold many cds. 😛
http://michaelsmusiclog.blogspot.com/2014/11/anne-mccue-at-hotel-cafe-11-15-14.html
What’s that infinitive verb form again, Tony? Eh? Avoiding sexist language as in “to man,” are we? Congrats.
@vmorris wrote:
@stoger wrote:
Let’s assume Lu got off before 11 and the dreaded “union rules” of overtime pay kicked in.
Stoger, Yes, Lu did end just before 11pm. Maybe that’s why the KBB set was so short. One of the bartenders told me Lu was supposed to take the stage at 9:20, but since the opener was so short, she was going on at 9pm so I should hustle back to my seat. I’m glad she got the two encores in (I’m still scarred by the experience of having the plug pulled in the middle the first time I heard Blessed, at the Saratoga Mountain Winery, because of venue curfew!). Oh, and KBB rocked hard and loud. Kenneth gave the background of a new song, it might be called something “If I’m Going Down, I’m Going Down Hard”, dedicated to a friend who died of a heart attack at the age of 39. Went to bed after a gig in Mexico and never woke up. I also really enjoyed “Breakdown”, I think it’s called. I saw outside that they retired their old green van (but hopefully not the atlas and the Gideon’s Bible on the dash, but I didn’t check!) and replaced it with an identical white van… I saw the KBB sticker and other misc. bumper stickers and used my powers of deduction 🙂 See you in less than a week and I’ll wear my Old Gringos 8) Viv
thanks for the kBB material especially. Their sets as a whole have seemed shorter this tour, for whatever reason. The person who died in Mexico was Ikey _______, former keyboardist for the Jack White Band. And I believe those two vans have been used alternately, though the white one is lower mileage. Rock on in the continental 48, my KBB friends!
Excellent, Viv. Now we need Tony to red-ink the Lou Reed cover, I think. Nice that Flannery O’ got a shout-out. Let’s assume Lu got off before 11 and the dreaded “union rules” of overtime pay kicked in.
Funny, as long as I’ve been looking at Lafayette’s and vmorris’ feet at all these shows, Old Gringos means nothing to me. Thanks, as always, for the fashion report. . . .
@tonyg wrote:
Setlist updated accordingly on Side of the Road. I thought it had been done before. 😮
Obviously I did too Tony, but I bow to the maker of setlists extraordinaire–and to your red inking abilities.
@DDinNJ wrote:
I will leave the set list to the professionals. I also like the new format. A big Thank You to Lu and all for appearing in Southern New Jersey. We had a wonderful time. The show was great, could not ask for better song selection, and added humor from the stage. It was also nice to see some unexpected friends.
I’m a glorified amateur DD, but here goes:
1 Something Wicked
2 Can’t Let Go [with plenty of talk about the Lonesome Strangers’ former label Hitone–and how Lu sent demos to them and was told they already had enough “new artists”]
3 Pineola
4 Drunken Angel [Lu holds forth on the Beautiful Losers motif, using the phrase “with all due respect” twice in case she seemed to be putting them down: finally, she says “I’m getting off the subject here” and belts it out]
5 Right in Time [after which Lu references James Brown and his “50 dollar fine” policy for musicians’ mistakes–but smilingly]
6 Walk On [for Jasmine]
7Compassion [with a false start: after the thing is finished, Lu assesses herself a “fifty dollar fine”]
8 Side of the Road
9 Lake Charles [before which Lu reveals she lived with Clyde, also pronouncing this the last of a “trilogy” with Pineola and Drunken A]
10 Blue
11 Stand Right With Each Other {Lu introduces it tentatively, by its first two words only: after, she seems dissatisfied and turns to Butch, who can clearly be seen mouthing the words “They loved it; they loved it; they loved it”] *
12 Are You Down
13 Protection
14 Changed the Locks
15 Out of Touch
16 Essence
17 Joy
18 Honeybee
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19 STop Breakin’ Down
20 I Live My Life [Lu sticks to the encore setlist, despite a piercing “Real Live Broken (sic) Fingers” request in my right eardrum]
21 Righteously
22 Get Right with God
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23 Rockin’ in the Free WorldTonyg, I leave the red coloring to you, tunes 5 and 11 if you please.
As our local Garden Staters suggest, this one was a keeper. This report is dedicated to them and also to the Forum member formerly known as “rhon”–aunt by the way to the aforementioned Jasmine. Good to see Rho again. I was talking to none other than Jasmine on the front stoop at intermission when up walks our Jersey pair–as if at the culmination of a neighborhood stroll. And they’re coming to Nashville! DDinNJ, you and spouse rock!
* and we did, reader, Lord God Almighty we did. . .
The dynamic duo comes through again, both the prone one and the vertical one. I once saw Chuck Prophet at this venue; it was a seated configuration then, but perhaps otherwise last night?
I think I can shed some light on Nashville: KBB on Monday (with Lillie Mae Lillie Mae). Thirty Tigers has some input into the subsequent nights, so I assume this Ms. Diable (wed to a Lucifer figure perhaps?) is a fledgling on that distributor/label. Who knows the third night?
That language is pretty pointed about the KBB absence for Toronto, but I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions on the deportation/checkered passport front. Only our NSA knows for sure, lwj.
I’m loving these color-coded lists–while at the same time wondering if any of my fellow fans/Forum members are out there in the dark paying attention from night to night. But mainly: thanks Tony, thanks Tom.
I would have thought the 9:30 club might well have brought out the best show of the run, but kudos to the Lincoln Theatre for doing it.
Ramshead, boys?
Can’t help you on hues, Tony, but it’s good to see that the in-bed one got up and provided you some data.
