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Hi, Noelle! This is Tom – I am the moderator here & the guy who encouraged you to come visit us in the forum outside of the venue Tuesday night after the show. Welcome to the forum!
It was a wonderful show, wasn’t it? I am in Knoxville this morning (typing this on my iPad from a McDonald’s parking lot – the WiFi was down at my hotel last night & this morning) after seeing Lu’s show here last night. I am about to start my drive back home to North Georgia, so I have to run, but I will repond to your friend’s message in the other thread first & see if I can maybe meet him at the show in Atlanta Friday night.
It was a pleasure meeting you & Betty! Hopefully, I will see y’all at another Lu show in the near future…
Tom
OK, it’s very late (2:01 AM) & I just got back to my hotel room. But, I wanted to fulfill my commitment to West Words & stoger to get the set lists (one for each set) from tonight (last night?) posted. As I snagged copies of the setlists after the show, I was the logical volunteer.
For now, suffice it to say that it was a great evening, a wonderful show & Mr. Blake Mills impressed me greatly this, the first show I have seen with him performing. Also a pleasure (as always) to see once again dear friends West Words & stoger, as it was meeting Roger’s friend Bryce and new forum member elbee & his wife. More details on the show tomorrow (or later, as I will be driving to Knoxville tomorrow). But, for now, here are the set lists with a few brief comments:
SET 1
Side of the Road (I was very happy from the start hearing the opening notes to this favorite of mine!)
World Without Tears
Copenhagen (YES!)
Fancy Funeral (AWESOME slide work from Blake on this one, as well as some wonderful introductory comments from Lu)
Jackson
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Born to Be Loved
Fruits of My Labor
Blessed (VERY impressive solo from Blake here)
WestINTERMISSION
SET 2
Steal Your Love
Convince Me
Seeing Black
Essence (The set list had “Out Of Touch” as a possible alternate here)
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
Unsuffer Me (More great solo work from Blake)
Righteously
Changed the Locks
Honey Bee (Blake absolutely blew me away with a “Flight of the Bumblebee” riff near the end!)ENCORE
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (More nice slide work from Mr. Mills)
Drunken Angel (Set list had “Get Right With God” here – TO said after the show this was a last minute change)
Joy(Set list had “For What It’s Worth” as a potential second encore that did not come to fruition)
Good night, all…
Tom
@LWjetta wrote:
Tom, you could also add to your list from my post last week under California shows.
June 24th Wells Fargo Centre for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
lwj
Done!
Tom
Looks like Lu is returning this summer to the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA. I just got an notification from Pollstar for Saturday, June 25th for this beautiful venue. I’ve added it to the list above…
Tom
Thanks for the kind words, y’all, and for the info on that fine Canadian steel-string guitar, LWJ. I can attest to the wonderful “rootsy” sound it lent to Gurf’s playing of Blaze’s songs.
LWJ, I specifically asked Gurf & Kevin after the show if their tour was going to take them to Toronto, and they replied “maybe”, but that they would definitely be in Buffalo, NY. Hearing that, and knowing your willingness to “drive across the Peace Bridge” for good music, I went out on a limb & told them I knew a certain Canadian gentleman who would almost assuredly be seeing them there. 😆 Please do go if you can – again, I cannot recommend this gig too highly.
And there is a couple more pieces of memorabilia we left Smith’s Olde Bar with Friday night that I neglected to mention. On our way out the door, Kevin gave Sarah and me the two below-pictured stickers of two psychedelic drawings of Blaze’s… 😉
Tom
Two lovely songs of Lu’s that I think are “criminally under-played” (as someone else phrased it in another thread about another song) are “Like A Rose” & “Sharp Cutting Wings (Song To A Poet)”.
Now, of course, these are “mellow” songs as opposed to “rockers”, so they may not be good candidates for “the treatment”. So, another song, more of a rocker and one with a definite groove, that I hardly ever hear Lu play is “Hot Blood”. I love that song, too!
Tom
@blureu wrote:
no opener for Charlotte. Two sets!
http://www.blumenthalarts.org/default.asp?blumenthal=59&objId=2519
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT – Please call the Box Office at 704.372.1000 in the case of any returns.
Please note that there is no opening act. Lucinda Williams will play two sets with an intermission.YES!!!
Tom
Here’s a review of the show from “Indy’s Alternative Voice”, Nuvo.
Alternative, indeed. The writer came up with an “alternative” spelling of Butch’s name – “Butch Martin“. 🙄 At least he was complementary of Lu’s drummer, if not accurate regarding his surname, writing that he “looked and sounded commanding from behind the set”…
Tom
WOW. This turned out to be a really, REALLY special evening for both Sarah & me last night!
First of all, every show we have ever been to in the past at Smith’s Olde Bar (at least a dozen) have always been in the upstairs main music room, save for one. This is the “big” room at Smith’s, but is small by most venue standards – maybe room for 250 or so people, mostly standing (there are a few tables on the side of the room). The one other show we saw there was the fabulous Shannon McNally solo / acoustic about 3 years ago – she played in the much smaller “Atlanta room” downstairs off of the main bar. This room can hold no more than 50 people tops, and usually has about 10 four-top bar tables plus a little standing room & a big, old leather sofa in the back. Well, we went to the show last night assuming it would be upstairs, but were pleasantly surprised to find it was in the much cozier & more intimate Atlanta room downstairs.
When we got there 30 minutes early, only four folks were there – one guy sitting at a table right in front of the stage, working on a Macbook Air. And, at another table in the back of the room, there were three people sitting & chatting, one of them Gurf Morlix. We sat at the table next to the guy up front. Shortly after we sat down, he turned around & introduced himself – he was the filmmaker who directed & produced the documentary we were there to see, Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah! His name is Kevin Triplett & he is from Austin. He has been working on this project for 12 years, and is very excited about it. He is a really nice, cool guy & we had a great chat with him for about 20 minutes before the show.
I was surprised to learn from Kevin that Blaze’s former girlfriend / common-law wife (they literally “jumped the broom” together in front of friends) from Carroll County, Georgia, was going to be there. Her name is Sybil Rosen, and she has written a book about Blaze titled, Living in the Woods in a Tree (also the title of a song Blaze wrote). She & Blaze lived in a treehouse in the woods in Carroll County for about a year in the mid 70’s. Well, not only did she write this book, but it turned out she was featured very prominently in the documentary film.
We got to meet Sybil before the show & she is an awesome, sweet, beautiful woman. Although I had wanted to order a copy of her book from Amazon.com a couple of days ago, luckily I didn’t get around to it, because she had copies with her for sale, and she autographed one for me (picture below) after the screening of the documentary and before Gurf’s performance. I am going to start reading it tomorrow – I can’t wait!
The documentary itself is wonderful. Kevin screened a slightly shorter version of it than what will be released later this year on DVD. It was very, VERY entertaining, while also being, of course, sad & tragic when it touched on the hardships Blaze faced in his life as well as his untimely, senseless death. I know it is a cliché, but literally, “we laughed, we cried”. It was at times laugh-out-loud hysterical, while at other times heartbreaking. It included many first-hand accounts from folks who knew & loved Blaze, including Gurf & Sybil. I recommend seeing it very, very much (more on opportunities to do that in a minute).
Then, after a brief question & answer session with Kevin (during which time a man in the audience from Carroll County said that he remembered Blaze babysitting the “kids across the street” when he himself was a boy) & some remarks from Sybil, there was a brief intermission. During it, I went over to the merch table, introduced myself to Gurf & purchased a copy of his Blaze Foley tribute album, Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream, which he signed for me (picture below). Gurf turned out to be a very nice, open guy.
After the intermission, Gurf took the stage, just he & his smallish Canadian acoustic guitar (someone asked him for the brand name, which he shared, but I have forgotten it), and a couple of electronic percussion pedals. He performed about a dozen or so of Blaze’s songs, most of them from his tribute album. It was wonderful!
All in all, it was a night I’ll always remember. At most, there were 30 people there – it was very warm, open & intimate. Getting to meet Kevin, Gurf & Sybil was just amazing. All of them are so warm, so genuine & open, and were obviously so much in love with Blaze Foley (in Kevin’s case, with the memory of Blaze, as he never had the opportunity to meet him). I thank them so much for sharing their (and others’) memories of & feelings for Blaze in film, music & the written word.
Finally, I wanted to tell everyone here about other opportunities to experience this great evening yourselves, as Kevin & Gurf are taking this gig on a nationwide tour (eh, and Canada as well, LWJ!) Check out their Web site blazefoleymovie.com for a schedule. I cannot recommend this event more highly – please try to go if you get an opportunity!
Tom
My autographed copy of Gurf’s CD, Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream
Cover of Sybil Rosen’s book, Living in the Woods in a Tree
Autographed title page in my copy of Sybil’s book
@Lafayette wrote:
Our setlist.fm statistics show “Are You Down” played 11 times compared to “Joy” at 116 & “Honeybee” at 103. Love it, TO.
Amazing. It’s like TO read my mind. After he mentioned yesterday or the day before about “Steal Your Love” being “resurrected” based on it’s low count in the setlist.fm stats, I thought to myself, what about “Are You Down”? (Essence is my favorite Lu album, and I love this song on it). I was going to mention it later. No need to now… 😀
Tom
@Lafayette wrote:
or are they swarovski?
For those who, like me, are not “in tune” with luxury items – from Wikipedia:
Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria.
😉 😳
Tom
@TOverby wrote:
I should add that in Lafayette and N.O. it will CC Adcock and the young prodigious Cajun fiddler Cedric Malone as a duo. CC tells me it’s a very special thing.
Aw man, I wish I could be at those shows for that!
Tom
