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Great visuals and verbals, lafayette. For better or worse, you seem to be adapting my style a bit with your bracketed setlist addenda….
@vmorris wrote:
First, another excellent opening act. Lucinda is the one artist where I always go to the opening acts. They seem handpicked by her and are always exciting new discoveries.
Second, don’t worry Lucinda, we don’t want anyone in Nashville or anywhere else to cover your songs… We just want YOU!!! Others can cover them, but only you do them justice.
Third, beautiful rendition of Pineola, among others. Any possibility of “Out of Touch” tomorrow night (Mon)? It’s always wonderful live, and I love Doug’s solo on that one.
Fourth, and most important, THANKS FOR ANOTHER WONDERFUL EVENING! If you’re in the mood, a louder, longer rocking stretch tomorrow would be awesome, but understand that it’s difficult with this type of show and you can’t play everything.
Vmorris, how about last night?!?
@Lafayette wrote:
I think I found the set list on twitter.
Pineola
Drunken Angel
Copenhagen
Blue
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Changed The Locks
JoyAbbreviated, to be sure, but thanks for the digging, lafayette.
Thanks for the musings, and enjoy tonight. I feel sure lafayette will be posting the setlist here in good time.
Wow, never realized “Joy” was specifically an anti-capital punishment song; nor do I predict that “Something Wicked,” despite its merits, will attain “hit” status. But thanks for this (admittedly secondhand) account, lwj.
@Railroad wrote:
“Apparently, she thought she heard a fan criticize the sound, which again she was struggling with.”
Yep, some clown sitting beside me down front yelled “It’s too loud” a couple of times while Lu was trying to get the sound right. I thought an elbow to the nose would be inappropriate so I restrained myself.
Randy
I don’t know: you looked like you had thrown a few pertinent elbows in your varsity point guard days, Randy. . . . .
Good to see Randy and Kathy again, also tntracy. . .
1 Can’t Let Go [bracketed by crowd shout-out of “Happy Birthday,” which Lu smilingly deflected onto Doug, since the 23rd was his actual birthday: at end of song, Lu says “That’s what i’m talkin’ about”]
2 Well WEll Well
3 Bitter Memory [with a false start/messu-up: Lu finishes it, compares it to the smooth sound check version, then announces with a smile, “That’s what we get for rehearsing: no more rehearsals”]
4 Crescent City {Lu announces she likes her new birthday guitar]
5 Jackson [but not before all hell breaks loose: Lu says a propos of seemingly nothing: “Don’t f _ _ _ with me,” then announces that she’s not a “f _ _ _ _ _ _ _ folksinger.” Apparently, she thought she heard a fan criticize the sound, which again she was struggling with. Before the song gets started, Lu references agin the “bitch” who stole her purse the other night, then concludes for good measure (and unsmilingly), “I’ll never do a soundcheck again.” And that birthday guitar is put aside and never used again throughout]
6 Bus to Baton rouge
7 Port Arthur [after which Lu revisits the acoustics, asking Doug “did we do it that way with the amp at sound check?” After he nods yes, she launches an f-bomb-laced round of self-castigation]
8 Blue {“I know I cuss too much; it’s probably from traveling with all guys”]
9 When I Look at the World
10 Blessed
11 Make the World Go Away
12 Concrete & Barbed Wire
13 I Lost It
14 Pineola
15 Something Wicked This Way Comes [preceded by remarks about either doing another song or doing this one differently, but Lu doesn’t “want to tie up anyone’s time”–apparently a reference to a different amp or plug-in or instrument or sound adjustment. She likes it when the crowd cheers the intro about this being a Southern gothic song, but at the end of it she says “Y’all don’t know quite how to react to that one”]
16 Changed the Locks
17 Joy [preceded by apologetic intros of all the crew members by name]
18 Honeybee
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19 Happy Birthday to You [solo, as tour manager ERic walks on stage with two candled cupcakes for a sheepish DP]
20 In My Girlish Days [aborted after a half dozen words. . . Lu fusses around a bit; the crowd tries to encourage her, and she then says, “At least I show up for my gigs, unlike some folk singers” and “I’m going to get yelled at”]
20a Nothin’ in ramblin’ {followed by “I should stick with what I know I guess’}
21 Jambalaya [with Lillie Mae Rische on violin]
22 Get Right with God [with the Kenneth Brian Band]@Sue M wrote:
Hi ya’ll,
I don’t post often, but I couldn’t leave you all hanging!
I didn’t write down the setlist, but off of the top of my head here’s what I remember:She opened solo with Passionate Kisses (Lucinda acknowledged that Mary Chapin Carpenter played the fest the day before) before Doug joined her.
The rest that I recall, in no particular order:
Can’t Let Go
Pineola
a new song from the tv series Nashville
a Skip James cover
People Talkin
Crescent City
Car Wheels
Drunken Angel
I Lost It
Jackson
Joy
Honey Bee
Changed the LocksI’m sure I’m forgetting something or got something wrong; hopefully, someone else will chime in.
The show was awesome, the sound was theater quality, and Lucinda sounded great. Even though I love the full band, I enjoyed seeing just her and Doug and hearing the sparser arrangements. We waited in line to get into the venue and sat in the second row with Lucinda’s aunt and other family who were friendly, lovely, and sweet. Lucinda talked to the crowd a bit more than usual – it was nice to hear more from her!
Even though it was a shorter, festival set, I left feeling quite fulfilled. BTW, it’s a great festival – we spent three days listening to great music from veterans and up and coming acts in a beautiful setting.
Cheers!
SueFourteen songs, generous for a festival: thanks, Sue. “Bitter Memory” and “Hard Time Killing floor Blues” seem to be the fourth and fifth titles above. And let’s assume the aunt you sat with was another than the [in]famed Aunt Verna of Monroe, LA/”Fancy Funeral”/Uncle Cecil fame.
Glad to hear of the recovery, Tom. I will never darken the door of the Blackheart again in my Austin visits, though the IHOP proximate to it has mighty fine wee-hour breakfast fare.
Thanks for the sunglasses-donned X 2 photo, Lwj. And yes, where is westwords these days anyway–floating in cyberspace, or anchored in her Sunshine State roots? Classes start next week, i.e., not before Birmingham and Louisville!
Perhaps the-poster-formerly-known-as-Inside-Job will add some words to the visual here.
@tonyg wrote:
Thanks for the report Mr. Stoger. Safe travels.
I am assuming you can complete the horse joke Doug started, right tony?
1 Lake Charles (“Sorry I’m late, I was working on a new song on the bus”)
2 Side of the Road (by request)
3 Greenville
4 The Night’s Too Long [with elaborate intro)
5 Fruits of My Labor
*6 When I Look at the World [not a NEW new one, but the one referenced above]
*7 Concrete & Barbed Wire
8 Over Time {Willie Nelson is praised for not being scared to record her lyrics, unlike “some in Nashville”]
* 9 Port Arthur [ah, Cleveland, Lafayette.. . Lu mentions that the next day would have been Janis Joplin’s 70th birthday, also plugging Dougie’s birthday again]
10 Jailhouse Tears
11 Bitter Memory
12 Drunken Angel
13 I Lost It
14 Right in Time
15 Essence
16 Down the Big Road Blues
17 Changed the Locks
18 Joy (“This one’s been around the bend a few times”)
19 Honeybee
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*20 Disgusted
*21 Jambalaya (with Lillie Mae Rische on violin}
22 Get Right with God* tour debut
Lu didn’t bring the purse/coat thing up; the crowd did, early in set. She thinks they have a suspect, a disgruntled after-shower who felt snubbed by Lu. Apparently, Lu didn’t remember the probable thief’s mother, supposedly a big pal of Lu’s back in the day. I’m sure the cybercops from the “Lu in General” thread will incorporate this info into their sleuthings.
This is just horrible. The place has earned its name (“Blackheart”). It seemed mellow on the one hand, overrun on the other. I’m surprised the “birthday party” was not confined to a single area of the premises; I’m not faulting anyone, as it was a nice gesture by Shilah and others. But there were dozens of people milling into the wee hours. Let’s hope those security cameras cum the eagle eye of moderator Tracy will bear fruit. I’m very sorry to hear this.
