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@Lefty wrote:
“I can pick up the ball in Albany, but why not road trip it on down?”
Stoger, I would love to, but work takes over the rest of the week. Enjoy those superb acoustics at The Egg! 8)
Work? Work? Oh yeah, I’m lucky it’s August thru May only for me. Have already scouted out the Egg–see upcoming other thread.
@wtwn81 wrote:
Blessed/ Can’t Let Go/ Pineola/ Drunken Angel/Sidewalks of the City/ Too Cool to be Forgotten/ Compassion/ Lake Charles/ Everything Has Changed/ Side of the Road/ Factory / Steal Your Love/ Something Wicked This Way Comes/ Burning Bridges/Changed the Locks/ Out of Touch/ Unsuffer Me/ Essence/ Joy/ Honey Bee/ Atonement/ Righteously/ Rockin in the Free World
Thanks–interesting use of slash marks yourself, in a different context. Good to see that Bruce cover debuted, confirmation of it that is.
@Lefty wrote:
In an old-timey thee-a-ter, hard by the Hudson River, near where Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman scared the #@&% out of Ichabod Crane, Ms. Williams and the guys added to their own legend…
Blessed (Lu starts out on her lonesome, soon joined by the band)
Pineola
Drunken Angel
Crescent City
Mrs. Lefty & I thought these first 4 songs seemed “off” – A bit hurried, a little mechanical. That would change with…
Jackson – simply wonderful 🙂
2 Kool – 8)
Compassion – “Down where the spirit meets the bone” …Happy Father’s Day shout-out to all dads, especially Miller
Side of the Road – always great to hear
Everything Has Changed – yes, it had by now 🙂
Blue – nothing mechanical about this one
Are You Down – Paging Carlos Santana! Smmmokin’!
Protection – Lefty likey
Burning Bridges – Lefty likey even more
Out of Touch – thought it was Essence at first 😳
Changed the Locks – may have gotten the biggest reaction from the crowd
Essence – couple making out right in front of us all show really mauled each other during this one 😯
Joy – both raw & well done
Honey Bee – same as aboveVentura – nice
Pale Blue Eyes – a highlight for us
Atonement – Sunday night revival style, followed by…
Get Right with GodGot to shake hands with the KBB foursome in the lobby … real nice guys; we wish them well!
Wow: not one but TWO American lit. references by our lefty in one post: go man go! “Protection”?? Oh my, what a tour debut, though I have heard it once or twice as introduced under the title “I Need Protection.” And yes, those two rockers off the Essence CD overlap a bit to my ears at their starts. As for that make-out couple, was there any wonder about “who [was] in charge”? “Ventura” may be a tour debut, perhaps a sophomore selection, not sure. And that Sunday-evening double closer: who can doubt the Sabbath was remembered and kept holy?!
I can pick up the ball in Albany, but why not road trip it on down?
@LWjetta wrote:
Great reporting Lefty from a very historic venue.
Normally our FF gal Lafayette posts the lists to Setlist FM, but I see in the 3 Rivers thread that she was away, so I went ahead to help her out.lwj
thanks, lwj. I guess I could check myself, but did the Clearwater, FL setlist ever get found out and included on setlistfm?
thanks for your good comprehensive research, lwj. I must caution (in this thread and others) that, as much as I love these photoshoots of setlists (instagram? instagram?), they are not definitive on actual songs played. Slash marks are especially ambiguous, but even a tune slotted in without a slash mark might not have been played: small chance it wasn’t. That said, I think we can safely assume. Only TO can say for sure this leg of the tour. . . .
@tonyg wrote:
They got the album title wrong. Ha ha. Losers. 😆
No one knows quite like you, Tony: the word “Down” at start of a phrase can make all the difference.
Darn tootin’ “Sidewalks…” is a debut, lwj–just as “Lines Around…” was in Delaware. I don’t think I’ve heard either outside of the “album-a-night” format a few years back, until “Lines” in Wilmington. I’m liking these lists. By the way, Leftover Salmon recorded “Sidewalks” some time ago, with Lu I think.
Good to know the great Pacific Northwest still appreciates this gem–and she probably has been in Austin a year and a half at least, so the move was not “just” recently. I’ve given the new record a couple of listens myself, and it holds up nicely; perhaps the journalist is right about it being a bit less country/honky-tonk. I do miss the mandolin.
She’s dropped the band tag name The Lost High Rollers from this release; in fact, only one “High Roller” still remains, Zoe’s drummer-spouse Greg Nies (they met when she was In the audience at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern, he working front house sound). I purchased the record inside the finest building in Nashville: third floor is Thirty Tigers headquarters, Lu’s new distribution company. Ground floor is the live music venue The Basement, site of 2000’s “discovery” of Anne McCue by Lu, who immediately invited her out to open. The middle floor? Grimey’s Records, maybe the best such storefront in our nation, also featuring some great in-store mini-sets. Zoe’s first record (not even on a label) was in the “Folk/Americana” section of the store, but there were no others, so I despaired until the clerk steered me to “rock/pop,” where the new one was filed. Whether this says something about her shift to “solo” artist status and/or confirms what the Seattle Times guy said I’m not sure. The former band name was a Townes allusion, but there are other ways of keeping that heritage alive. Zoe knows her roots, and honors them.
There’s only one cover on this record, longtime Austinite Ronnie Lane’s “April Fool,” which was mentioned by the reviewer. Sleeper songs to my mind are “Make Me Change My Mind” and “Taken All You Wanted.” Brad Rice plays a mean guitar throughout, he of Lu/Austin/Waterloo Records/January 2014 one-off fame. Bruce Robison is on the record too. As usual, the great cover art can be credited to yet another Salinger figure, sister Phoebe.
GOT THE PAYPHONE BLUES IN A TOWN I SHOULD HAVE LEFT A LONG TIME AGO
–Zoe Muth@LWjetta wrote:
Anne’s new record is now available for pre-order on her web site.
It’s called ” Blue Sky Thinkin'” and is slated for a September release
A preview video.
http://www.annemccue.com/News.htmlAlso a heads up to stoger if he is stll in TN before a return to Lu’s shows in the Empire State.
This Monday June 16th I’ll be joined by some amazing musicians – John McTigue III, Randy Leago and Chris Autry plus The Wild Ponies, Them Vibes, Tommy Womack… At the Five Spot, Nashville. We go on at 6 pm sharp! — with Anne McCue.
(Randy Leago was on Lu’s 1998 Austin DVD on the Hammond organ)
lwj
I’ll be in the Empire State on that date, but thanks!
Thanks jackstraw for your thoughts, and I believe “Everything Has Changed” (not to be confused with “Everything But the Truth”) is a tour debut. Any more, TO?
LWJ, I’m on hiatus now and thus didn’t post re: the Harrisburg or Stone Pony shows. But don’t count me out when the tour heads to the Empire State, post-Ithaca that is.
homosacer wrote:awesome. Don Imus has a dog named after Ms. Williams too[/quote
To that beast I would like to say, “Are You Alright?”@tonyg wrote:
Grumpymama and I represented last night at the Eels show in L.A. The show got started at 9:55. It was a less rocking version of the Eels: everyone in suits and ties and acoustic instruments were played, including an upright bass, and bells. After about an hour the group did a couple encores and then Steve Perry of Journey fame came out and they did one Eels song, followed by 3 Journey songs. All in all a 90 minute show. Steve Perry and E are pals, come to find out. It was pretty schmaltzy but fun.
After the show we rubbed elbows with the band and Steve Perry, and another famous friend of E’s, Jon Hamm of Mad Men fame. All the celebrity types were super duper nice and were not offended by our existence in any way. Pictures were snapped.
The FF road show rules! 8)
Chet Lyster?
@vmorris wrote:
Stoger,
What is Miller’s latest book? Now THAT’s exciting, too!
I would have passed out had I been there for “I Envy The Wind.”
Vivian
I’m not sure it’s a late late one, and she might have been referencing the only one (sadly) which is readily still in print. I think you probably own whatever title Lu was referring to.
No, lwj, we got “Overtime” at least once down South–don’t think there were any tour debuts in Harrisburg, but ddin jersey is right about the “smokin'” Are You Down.
As for that article, well, I think the reviewer h/self got “bogged down” in midset, as he put the past tense on the verb (in the review itself) and pluralized the noun in the song “Still I Long for Your Kiss.” Also, I believe those locks that got changed were multiple ones.
But thanks to you both for your efforts.
