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Remarks from Tom:

“First night of three in Nashville -highlights : East Side Of Town, When I Look At The World, Hot Blood and Something About What Happens with very special guest Lee Ann Womack. Something About was also a tour debut so the song count is now at an even 70.”

From Tom:
“Well this was a night for the books. Given that this was the fourth night of four, when we usually limit Lu to three in a row, just made it all that much more unlikely. At the last minute Lu added a couple songs that were special requests so the set was already a little longer than normal. But once again an incredible audience right from the beginning made the night, and it didn’t seem like it was going to end. It’s been a long time since Lu’s done a third encore, but some rare nights just happen that way. After the second encore Lu was part way down the backstage steps but no one was leaving and they were being very vociferous. At that point there was only one song left in the book (Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues) and no time to huddle to figure out what to do. At the end of Hard Time Killin Floor, Lu came over to the side of the stage and asked her guitar tech Justin to grab Hot Blood out of the master books -after a couple of frantic minutes he found it while the band was alreadt starting it. As the final notes of Hot Blood, the 27th song of this epic show, were fading out Lu started to wave and walk off the stage, but not before grabbing David Sutton’s mic laughing and saying “Lucinda Williams has left the building”.
Time for a needed day off.

4 more songs made their tour debut, bringing the count to 69. (I did subtract one as someone pointed out that This Old Heartache was played in Lexington. “

From T.O.:

“Kind of a crazy night. The show began with a very tired Lu and band trying to drum up some energy and not really sure what kind of audience it was going to be. It seemed like everyone on both sides was sort of feeling out the energy. Then somewhere in the middle of the set you could palpably feel the energy build within the audience and within the band. Suddenly everything changed and the crowd became very vocal -and signs with song requests started be put on stage and it was game on.Hot Blood was one of the handmade signs that someone put up on the stage during the first encore. Butch was not aware that Hot Blood had been added to the start of the second encore and started to play Rockin’ In The Free World until everyone started yelling “No, No, No”. He quickly shifted to a very groovy version of Hot Blood and then Rockin’ with the entire audience standing up front and singing along. A great night that didn’t seem like it was going to end up the way it did.”

From Tom:

Long Drive and an early border crossing at the Thousand Island station—good thing we didn’t have to go all the way to Bleu Cheese—but we made it to Toronto and the fantastic Massey Hall. Another great show -Lu and the band are just hitting on all cylinders. One person commented that he’s been seeing Lu since the early days and he’s never seen a show where it feels like a cohesive band as one unit-versus Lu playing in front of a backing band. It made sense at the time.
Tour debuts of Ventura (excellent) and I Just Want To See You So Bad. Great great crowd.
Now back to the US of A.”

Outstanding! I guess I need to learn how to use tinypics! 😆

Way to go ducknapped! Great report!