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@BigJim wrote:

Thanks so much. I’m not on facebook so haven’t seen that. Cheers Jim

Not on Facebook, yet a father to a twelve-year-old? I like that. As Mr. Nash says, teach them well.

@gnomey wrote:

I think the guy was actually drunk, I distinctly heard him say something along the lines of ‘F**K Copenhagen this is Zurich’. He was as baffled as I was that she acknowledged him and made a comment on the pronunciation of the word. For the record, the pronunciation is with the long aaaaa sound as on the song. The only people who mispronounce it are the Brits who say it as in Copen hay gen.

Otherwise, a perfect evening with Lucinda. She was on fine form, in fine voice and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying herself.

This is pretty hilarious: intoxicated shout out becomes wise orthographic statement, rewarded by the affirmation of a 3 time Grammy winner. Maybe the next request for Free Bird-shout out will be rewarded with a pat on the back for the drunkards Skynrd knowledge LOL

Thalys/TGV via Paris, actually lwj: but you are the thread-startin’ MAN!

1 Passionate K (solo)
2 Cant Let Go
3 Car Wheels
4 People Talkin
5 Lake Charles
6 Something About What Happens …
7 When I Look at the World
8 Copenhagen (a fan corrects her pronunciation and gives the long a sound; Lu good naturedly parries that by saying the rhyme scheme demands the ah sound)
9 Over Time
10 I Lost It
11 Drunken Angel
12 Something Wicked (a “preacher-humpin” song:also, Lu confirms that Joe Henry will produce newbie)
13 Changed the Locks
14 Hard Time Killing… (Lu tries to drop some economic theory on us, but since we dont know the difference between “recession” abd “depression” any more than she, she says “lets just play the song”)
15 Essence
16 Joy
17 Honeybee

18 Trying to get to Heaven (with late inserted sheets into the “Linus blanket” of a songbook)
19 Riverman
20 Blessed (Lu calls a girl on stage whose 12th birthday it is, then reminisces about learning the guitar at age 12, and 1965 in general with Dylans Hwy. 61 Revisited)
21 Get Right with God(Lu tells story about an Italian fan in parking lot who asked why not play there. She says it was a “business decision” and promises to play there someday)

Sleep? Sleep?

1 Cant Let Go
2 Car Wheels
3 Pineola (intro embellished for Continental audiences with “the Southern state of Arkansas” . . .)
4 Crescent City
5 When I Look at the World (punctuated by a drunken patron being escorted out by security midsong: Lu finishes but says after she is sorry for the guy. The song itself is said to be a half full/half empty sort of tune)
6 Blue
7 Born to be Loved
8 Concrete & Barbed Wire
9 Drunken Angel (before which Lu returns to the ejected patron, even dedicating this song to him with “Everybody knows at least one drunken angel.” She compliments security for “not causing a commotion” during all this, which went down center front of stage)
10 Something Wicked (with kudos to her “smart” hubbie)
11 Little Rock Star (with talk of rock gods who “hit the panic button” too early in life)
12 Come ON (a young Aussie band with a male frontman has cut this one)
13 Those 3 Days (“cathartic” for Lu, helping her keep out of juvenile detention centers and mental hospitals to pen such songs thru her life, she says)
14 Hard Time Killing
15 Essence
16 Honeybee
17 Joy (with much talk of the West Memphis 3 and folks like E Vedder, P Smithm and 19 Blessed
20 Get Right with God (talk of high ticket prices and Rolling Stones selling for “600 and up”)

Tonight’s parenthetical comments are dedicated to Lafayette (though I can’t find the bracket character on this damn Continental keyboard).

More after a brief nap.

That was refreshing.

Matt Blake did a fine 6 or 7 song opener, with Doug on pedal for 2 of them. Lu later thanked him and said “we like to keep it in the family (he is merch manager). My favorite lyric was “a hobo George Washington/with a stratocaster” (about Keith Richards). Favorite song overall was “You Ain’t Poor No More,” a seeming amalgam of Dylan and Guthrie.

i forgot one more line Lu said about the ejected guy: “he probably stood in line for hours.” Little did she know that there was another stoned patron walkoff, 5 minutes before the big one, though no security was involved. A buddy walked his intoxicated friend off right in front of me stage right, pushing on my upper body for good measure. The net result of these two incidents: more real estate up front. No sense getting all sentimental about it.

A sign said “hard curfew 10:00” but Lu walked off circa 10:21, with no unplugged instruments or apparent overtime union scale pay supplements.

I will try to be prompter after tonight.

Flex tonight, lwj– 700 seats, 400 or so standing spots. Or is it the reverse. . .?

Some fella named Matt Blake opening. . .

@tonyg wrote:

Double bummer. 🙁

Defer that flight, big boy.

Thanks Tony, though I didn’t get the Wasserman?Paul element of this. A heavier Roll-Koala set to be sure, what with the LA band there, but new songs still–sounds like a great tour capper for you. I guess the “blue sparkly” guitar was not the sub during “Stupid?” She used to play that song on the blue one much.

Good day.