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In the couple dozen times I have witnessed this song being performed, Lucinda always says she was inspired to write it when listening to the music of Paul Westerberg.
I don’t think it’s his fault the other guys died. That may be the most blisteringly negative review I have ever read.
Big Hayes Carll fan here, Lefty. He was on the Tonight show a few weeks ago and did the title song from his new record.
She did it at the Viper Room on 12/31/10 Tom. FWIW, it’s a Hank Cochran song, covered by many including Eddy Arnold.
Great report Essence! Thx for the setlist Bobmoore!
Great find LW. Here is a review of the show from the LA Times.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/lucinda-williams-at-the-bardot.html
Anyway, the night got started when Etienne and I arrived at the venue around 7:15 and found about 20 people in line already. We took a chance and walked down to Hollywood and Vine and had dinner and a beer at Dillons. I had my eyes open for Paul and Caroline, not expecting Paul to show up early, and not knowing what Caroline looked like. We managed to meet up anyway and the 4 of us hoofed it back to Bardot around 8:15. 2 people in line now. We chatted with the doorman who was most pleasant and told us the earlier line was the dinner line and we would not be allowed in until 9, and encouraged us to go have more drinks and he would make sure we got in if it got busy. Skeptically, we went back down to Hollywood Blvd. and had expensive cocktails in the plush bar of the Hotel W. We went back to Bardot about 8:50 and there were at least 100 people in line; the line stretched for about a block and we went “uh oh”. As luck would have it, the nice doorman saw us immediately and put us in our own special top secret line, for ultra cool people, and put admission bracelets on us. So there. We had a nice visit with our famed Webmasta who was out on the sidewalk with his assistant, filming and interviewing people. Webmasta told us about the plans for a web presence for “Blessed”. They are going all out for this one. At 9 pm we were practically the first ones in.
Once in it was clear this was going to be an intimate performance; the stage took up half the space and the so called VIPs took up most of the rest. The 4 of us shoe horned into a corner at the far right of the stage, next to David, and the guitar tech. Val was at the other end of the stage with LW and Butch in the middle. The show started at 10:15 and ended at precisely 11:15. Lucinda looked fabulous and was in great spirits. She even laughed it off when she flubbed a line in Buttercup, I think. The crowd was pretty regular looking. The Hollywood hipsters were waiting in the wings to take our spaces for the next band.
I tried to take pictures but I did not have a clear line of sight to LW. There were people in the front of the stage sitting in comfy couches and chairs and LW was practically in their laps, but we mostly saw the side of her head. I thought we had it bad, then I turned around to see Tom O. was about 10 feet behind us, probably the worst spot in the house to see the show from. So there.
Blake Mills joined the band for the last 3 songs (4 per Paul). He is a young tall skinny fella. I don’t know much about him. He did a good job. We chit chatted with Tom after the show. He was very excited about the show and said Blake was only 24 and they were very happy to meet him.
So basically we had a great time. The place was cool and everyone who worked there was super nice. Why they let people smoke in there, I have no idea. My eyes were burning and it was hard to breathe. Some people just haven’t gotten the memo about how bad smoking is. To cope with this, I had to have drinks.
The website was well represented between the 4 of us and Webmasta, and Tom of course. If Grumpymama made it, we were sorry to not meet her. I hope everyone has fun on the tour which starts in a few days.
