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Thanks, Tony. Lots of water imagery in different Amy Cook songs, yes. Were you displaced and reassigned from your former spots, or were you just at the farthest table? I had one incident (Santa Fe) where I was assigned a different seat from the one confirmed in my phone order, though I didn’t complain as it was only two rows and a slightly inferior angle distant from the rightful one. I had no documentation in that case, no paper trail.
Blaze as “comedian” perhaps comes through in his song about Idi Amin, but I hadn’t heard that label either.
Best to Tim, and let the New England contingent be heard from this week in great quantity and quality of report!
@tonyg wrote:
Great show. On at 8:10, ended at 9:56. The setlist:
People Talkin
Metal Firecracker
I lost It
Stowaway In Your Heart
Jackson
World Without Tears
Blue
Born To Be Loved
Trying To Get To Heaven
Drunken Angel
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Out Of Touch
Changed The Locks
Not My Cross To Bear
Righteously
Honey Bee
JoyPassionate KIsses (Lu Solo)
Blessed
Get Right With GodRemarks tomorrow. đ
It’s the morrow big boy, even ‘morrow afternoon in your ad hoc eastern time zone. Let’s hear it!
Signed, The Ever-Impatient One đ
@wtwn81 wrote:
Lucinda Williams
South Park PA
July 27 2012Can’t Let Go
Car Wheels
Crescent City
Pineola
Drunken Angel
Lake Charles
Fruits of my Labor
Born To Be Loved
I Lost It
Something Wicked This Way Comes (new song)
Out of Touch
Essence
Ain’t My Cross to Bear (Allman Brothers)
band intros (David Sutton, Doug Pettibone, ButchNorton)
Changed The Locks
Righteously
Honey Bee
Joy – with David Garza (accompanied Amy Cook in opening set)
-encore break and standing ovation from the large crowd-
Passionate Kisses (Lucinda solo)
Blessed
Get Right with God – with amy cook and David Garza
For What Its WorthThe sound was great and the crowd was very into the show. Lucinda spoke of having written new songs and going into the studio soon (did she say late August?).
So glad the band came to Pittsburgh!thanks for posting.
Nice account, lafayette. “Rescue” would have been the only tour debut from this particular gig, but great to see “Stowaway” and “Copenhagen” (whether long “a” vowel sound or not) in the list of songs actually done. Good initiative on that dance mode–no need to wait for TM Eric to wave you guys forward. Had I been by your side as planned, perhaps we could have tag-teamed the “stuffy” ones. Fine restraint, as it turned out.
P.S. to Covington show: Amy Cook mentioned that one Lu crew member had actually seen Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Madison Theatre–presumably as a child. The good money is on the new monitors guy, Mike I think; he’s a man of a certain generation.
@West Words wrote:
Here is a piece about the UM Press –
Lucinda Williams gives UM Press a shout-out
By JANESE SILVEY
Posted July 25, 2012 at 9:54 a.m.I underestimated the Save the UM Press folks.
Or maybe I underestimated Lucinda Williams.
Regardless, I was wrong when I said it was âimprobableâ that Williams would mention the closure of the press during her concert in Columbia.
The award-winning singer did, indeed, give the UM Press a shout-out during her performance at Stephens Lake Park last night, multiple concert goers tell me.
According to reports, Williams talked about her father, Miller Williams, who founded the University of Arkansas Press, and said during an encore that she understands the value of a university press.
Not sure a mention from a celebrity will cause UM President Tim Wolfe to undo the decision to close the press, but itâs a further indication of just how much attention the university is getting nationally.
Not only is Williams aware of the situation and interested enough to mention it at a concert, anyone who reads the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publisherâs Weekly or any Missouri media outlet also is learning a lot about how MU and the UM System operatesâand itâs not flattering.
As s Hank Waters noted in his editorial yesterday: âI know of no one with serious interest in the University of Missouri Press or its kin nationwide who is happy with changes in the offing for the local operation.â
Wolfe underestimated the pushback. He told the KC Star that he expected some disapproval but not the huge outcryâthat now includes Lucinda Williamâs voice.
Too bad “Those Three DAys” wasn’t done in Columbia, as the reporter mentions a nuclear facility near Columbia which could benefit from the shout-out. It was almost done in Covington. . . .
Yes, and let’s start with a quote from “lafayette” hself: when Lu announced that Doug will play the role of the bad boy on “Jailhouse Tears,” this fan on my right flank said simply, “Doug IS a bad boy.” I think this covers it.
Yes, good to see lafayette and stevarino again, plus meeting firecracker. Glad you mentioned the alternates, as “Those 3 Days” would have been a blast. Maybe in New York.
AFter “Bitter Memories,” Lu made the comparison of new songs to seeds again, then said Rosie Flores would kill this particular song, “kind of a Wanda Jackson thing.”
David Garza on “Joy” (with LU’s guitar) was said to be “kicking some serious ass.” It was true. He stood next to us for part of the main set, after a fine opener as sideman for Amy Cook, per usual this tour.
So I pass the torch to lafayette, rhon, and tonyg in the shows ahead. Time to get off the road and build up strength for the weeklong Big Apple residency ahead. No one should even tempt me with talk of lobster rolls or the small-scale glories of the Stone Mountain, ME venue. I’m vulnerable.
Tour debuts were “Crescent City,” “I don’t know how you’re living,” “Seeing Black” (!!!!), and The Stones cover.
Mr. Moderator, maybe you could combine these two interstate threads into one greater Cincy stream?
@tonyg wrote:
Stoger, does it seem like they are visiting the archives to take advantage of the presence of a certain guitarist who knows how to play them? đ
I might not phrase it quite like that, but um huh, yes.
@tonyg wrote:
You heard about the lobster rolls? I am sampling lobster rolls every day to find just the right one. đ
A certain lead guitarist’s taste buds told me so. Tempting…
6, 7, 8, 11, and 19 were also tour debuts. Lu duly credited Ray Bradbury for the new title (“I guess it’s all right to use it”).
There were also seven tour debuts in Boulder the night before; West Words took good notes and I’m sure will be posting soon. Off the top of my head, Blue, Steal Your Love, Springsteen’s Factory, Overtime, Jackson were among these.
@tonyg wrote:
Sounds like you have seen some great shows Stoger. Thanks for the excellent reports. I am in New England now awaiting the Portsmouth NH show one week from tonight!
and are you also preparing lobster rolls?
“Enemy of” would be an alternative title, Mike, clunky as that might be–she does repeat those two words mucho. We’ll see if she pens another verse for it down the line. . . .
A few addenda: despite an insipid local introduction some 20 minutes before the walk-on, including such quotes as “You can either let the music wash over you or listen to the words,” this was one of the best shows in months. Maybe ever. As Lu herself said a quarter of the way into it, “When mama’s happy, everybody’s happy.”
I missed most of Jill’s set but caught Doug on pedal for her last song, talked with her briefly after at the mass “aftershow” which required no badge to attend. And I must say, chalk up gratis food for me for time number three–a chef roaming the area, refilling the bins of sandwiches and casserole and gourmet popcorn and such.
Lu was again “humbled” by the surroundings, resort inclines and craggy peaks and so on. I myself ascended the funicular circa 12:20 a.m. to join my friends Tom and Christina for a post-nightcap nightcap.
All cylinders, what can I say? And perhaps in an unlikely setting, glitzy Park City. Yet most of the crowd was way into it, especially by standing end. Lucinda was booked into a gritty club called Harry O’s in summer of 2002, yet had to cancel. She’s played last night’s venue once since, though this was my first time to hear her actually go on in Park City.
On to the Land of Enchantment. . .
*1 2 Kool 2 b 4 ghotten
2 Can’t Let Go
*3 Ventura [good to see the return of the pedal steel to the post-festival stage: thank you Doug]
*4 Fruits of My Labor [good to see the return of the upright to the post-fest stage: thank you David]
5 Born to Be Loved
6 Bitter Memory
*7 Jailhouse Tears [“Dougie will play the bad boy part”]
*8 Buttercup [“That’s a kiss-off song”]
*9 Little Rock Star [with mention of Amy Winehouse]
10 Protection [Lu points to her shoulder at the line “my own sweet self”–then tells us she might change the title??!!?!]
11 Come On [followed by “this is the adult portion of the show”]
12 Essence
13 Cross to Bear
14 Changed the Locks
15 Righteously
16 Joy
17 Honeybee
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18 For What It’s Worth
19 Get Right with God {playful false start: “we’re in the wrong key”]
* denotes tour debut@punchdrunklove wrote:
is bitter memory a new song? what can you tell us about it?
Look at prior report (Redding).
Not much to add, Mike: good reportage. “Out of Touch” was a false start, booming bass. Before song two, she modified the quote from the person who had introduced her, noting that Time mag named her “America’s best songwriter” for one year and one year only. Funny, I always thought that apt designation was for all posterity. At the end she told the nation of Canada that it “sets an example” and that it is “way ahead of us.”
Thanks to my friend Squire and his friend Carol for accompanying me and plying me with food and drink in the noticeable absence of loonies and local currency in my pocket.
Finally, the Butch is back in town.
