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It’s not by Lucinda, but about her. The series so far has been very short books about a particular artist or band. I’ve read a couple, one about Neil Young making Harvest I think. It wasn’t too impressive.
Roadhouse Sun, the latest CD from Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses. I saw them at the Troubadour last Thursday.
Thx for the link. I do not need to read the “I am eating a sandwich now” tweets. But if there was a tweet that said “I am out at the bus now bored who wants to hang out?” I might want to consider that one.
Great links Tim and Paul. Did you see that my review here was lifted and posted there in its entirety, as was Tom Overbys blurb about T-Bone Burnett. Good thing I enjoyed Elvis or I might be in witness protection by now.
I hadn’t bought an Elvis record since My Aim is True but I might pick up his latest after last night, a highly entertaining night under the stars in Hollywood listening to bluegrass and country and other roots music. The place was 3/4 empty when LW came on but it was full by the time her set was over 45 minutes later. There was this weird camouflage type stuff covering the sections on the extreme left and right rear. I have no idea what that was all about. I had heard the band do People Talkin in their sound check and I knew we were in for a good night since they sounded great. Chet did fine by himself and I think thats the best line up really. There was a false start on Jackson due to a suspect guitar string but that was over quickly. The Chet played a killer acoustic slide guitar and Jim Lauderdale was great as always. Most of the people sitting around me had never heard of Lucinda for some reason, but she got a great hand after every song. I was dead center, 20 rows from the stage, so I had a great view of Lu and the fellas. About 5 rows in front of me sat 2/3 of Spinal Tap, except they were in their middle aged men outfits.
Elvis was a revelation to me. He has a killer band and his new stuff was great. He had a lot of energy and seemed to be having a good time. He came on at 8:30 and played 2 hours. I only recognized 4 songs: the opening song Mystery Train, Every Day I Write the Book, Angels Wanna Play My Red Shoes, and Allison, all played in the Americana style. Lu came out and I enjoyed the performance of Jailhouse Tears much more than the studio version. The Elvis crowd loved it. It was weird to hear it played with mandolin, fiddle, accordian, dobro, and no drums.
I’m glad I went I would have been sorry to miss this one.
Good stuff Paul. I didn’t see you there. Lucinda did not come back after you left but T-Bone Burnett made it out for a couple songs.
Ok I just got home at 11:45. Great great show. A nice evening of music all around. I’m tired so I will just post the set list with a full report tomorrow. Lucinda indeed hit the stage at 7:30.
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Well Well Well
Happy Woman Blues
People Talkin
Fruits of My Labor
Blue (tremendous version, for Tim I’m sure)
Jackson (with Jim Lauderdale)
Nothin in Ramblin (Memphis Minnie)
JoyLu came out about 40 minutes into Elvis’ set and they did:
Jailhouse Blues (of course)
Happy (Keith Richards)Lu looked and sounded fantastic. A great night. More tomorrow.
