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No no no no no no: She stood up first between “Cold Day” and “Fruits”; still, eight songs is a long sitdown, even post-stroke. Otherwise, the list is accurate.
Here are a few “poignant” (or not so poignant) addenda:
Lu makes a New Testament allusion after song one, calling her brother Robert the “Prodigal Son.”
Clyde Woodward gave Lu a recipe for “pimento cheese from scratch,” a propos of song five.
We learn before song eight that new guy Jim Oblon hails from NYC, but he declines Lu’s bait of adding to the stock of common sayings like “It will be a cold day in hell before. . .”
Lu hopes before song nine, upon standing, that we haven’t found her “too feeble.”
“Stolen Moments” will definitely be on the next album, she says: so there!
During song twelve, Jim abandons his usual tambourine and rocks out for second half with band.
On song fourteen, Jim is on keys, which I think is a departure from his usual guitar work on that song this tour.
The graduate teaching assistants at the Univ. of Indiana may be on strike, but our Lu shows up for work and does it dutifully!
Yes, the photographer himself sees them now–though I swear they were not visible a few hours ago. Magic.
That clarifies it, seangod: I have that record (not with me), but now recall it was the last track, Lu-written. Let’s hope you’re right about a future re-recording/re-release.
I guess my pics from Champaign didn’t come through, but thanks Tony for trying.
Good point, backstreets: I’m not sure then that it will be on next album, but “Stolen Moments” was a goodie. Also, I forgot to say Lu referenced the Ann Arbor show (which i did not attend) last night in Champaign and told us she said to the Ann Arbor audience “It’s good to be in Lexington.” Not even an intraconference college town! But she laughed it off, though it might not have been taken so well the night before by the Michiganders.
1 Steal Your Love
2 Can’t Let Go
3 Protection {Lucinda seems to apologize, mentioning the stroke and the fact of being walked upon the stage by her tour manager. She also apologizes for “getting used to the teleprompter” and seems to bemoan the absence of The Book]
4 Crescent City {Lu mentions the upcoming New Orleans House of Blues show]
5 Drunken Angel
6 Stolen Moments [new song to be on next album, though written “a few years ago” and an apparent outtake from Good Souls, Better Angels: the setting of this lovely songs seems to include LA, NYC, and 30,000 feet above in an airplane]
7 Lake Charles
8 Big Black Train [lengthy intro mentioning several memoirs Lu has been reading: Chrissie Hynde, Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce S]
9 Ventura [“one of those inside of me songs”]
10 Blue [“Kind of a like a personification of blue or the blues”]
11 Are You D
12 You Can’t Rule Me
13 Pray the Devil Back to Hell [with talk about “exorcising the demons’}
14 Changed the Locks
15 Essence
16 Honeybee
17 Righteously
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18 Rock and Roll Shoes [a 1958 song covered by Bruce S and others]
19 JoyI typed in the url to access it–pretty standard interview. But thanks Tony, I will use this thread in due time to post my report about the Virginia Theatre show.
Hope it works out. And since I’m too lazy to figure out how to send a private message, could you send me your number, backstreets? My phone imploded with all my contacts. My own phone # isthe same.
You too, ol’ southpaw. Wasn’t it Ithaca where we met and dug Lu? I have some vague memory of an artist or bookstore event just prior. Can you confirm or deny?
Man, I call this top drawer language from a steel trap mind. Thanks, Mike–er, I mean backstreets. “Crescent City” stood out from the list, and I appreciate the later narrative about its false starts. Buick 6 members are great–standalone or backing. Nash has issues with both apparel and body parts, but enough of that. Who says the “lyrics monitor” is necessary for a set, when that BOOK is there, held in reserve. Thanks for the correction on the Essence show: any non-Essence encore numbers would have been superfluous anyway. chris Masterson, along with his wife and sister-in-law, are top notch pros.
Will we see you and the missus in April?
Last seen by us at pappy and hariette’s, right Tony? Fanatic she is, imbedded on sea and land. I look forward to reports. Meanwhile, I am positioning myself for two additional land reports from the Sunshine State, coming everyone’s way soon.
Thanks for that, seangod: I thought you were along for the nautical ride, but you did a great job landing (pun) info. The sequence is interesting, and the encore two perhaps surprising. I forgot that “Words Fell” is not in fact on Essence; she held it for WWT, though I think it was written before Essence was released. Bo Ramsey influence there.
Damn I wish I were a cruiser and not a mere land-lubber. Three very different headings. Hope you get to meet Mike and Doris from Iowa; I believe his handle here is “backstreets.” Have fun. . . .
Well done, seangod–one you left out, in the #11 position, was “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” Maybe a couple of reversals in the order, but you nailed it all in all. And I agree, “Broken Butterflies” deserves all the asterisks and exclamation points in the world. I think I had heard it but twice before live, maybe just once.
I’ll add a few comments. The coughs from the night before hit “Pineola” and “West Memphis” this time, but not to real disruptive effect. AFter West Memphis, Lu assured the audience she’s Covid-free.
After “You Can’t Rule Me,” Lu noted that Robert Plant/Alison K had also recorded it, though I think it’s an alternate or bonus track to the actual release. “Can’t Let Go” is on that record.
“Bus to Baton Rouge” had a long preface, emphasizing the Methodist-minister grandfathers. One chewed tobacco.
Lu said “I Envy the Wind” was one of her favorites to do.
Ah, “Broken Butterflies.” Afterwards, she said maybe the audience should “workshop” it, and spoke of it being more like a poem or painting. She mentioned “stream-of-consciousness.” But the current memoir project is “the hardest thing I’ve ever written.”
At some point midset, Lu overcompensated for her non-mention of Buick 6 the night before, not only praising the boys in the band for having her back a couple of times, but pointedly saying “Buick 6” and referring to their own projects.
Among the proper names mentioned after “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” we heard Old Testament/B Dylan/L Cohen/Miller Williams. She even sang a few impromptu bars from “Highway 61 Revisited.”
After “changed the Locks,” she said she was tired and sat down for the next four (mainly rockers). She thanked the caregivers at Vanderbilt Hospital for stroke recovery.
Yes, there was a KIND of encore, but she didn’t walk all the way off before “Faith & Grace” and “Get Right.” Even after the lights came up ultimately, she still spoke into the mike and praised the audience and the opportunity.
Yep seangod, an Essence anniversary commemoration is well underway.
