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Good phone interview about the state of the industry, with a Lu mention at the 11:00 minute mark – http://powerpopaholic.blogspot.com/2010/09/jp-jones-chrissie-hynde-powerpopaholic.html
http://www.vintagerock.com/lucinda_williams_jp_chrissie_fairground_%20boys_2010.aspx
Be sure to click on the links within to see more photos. 🙂
Some videos from the show –
Side of the Road http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOl30aT8QJ0
Tears of Joy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XLvzN1qELc
Unsuffer Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwx1YqrPTo
OMG, my head is spinning from exhaustion, but I really wanted to get this in tonight. Awesome show to close out the mini tour, and we were treated to some rarities.
1) Blessed
2) Tears of Joy
3) Kiss Like Your Kiss
4) Are You All Right
5) Concrete & Barbed Wire
6) Crescent City
7) Something About What Happens When We Talk
8 Jackson
9) Greenville
10) Right In Time
11) Awakening (these are the best interpretation of the lyrics I heard and wrote down in the dark, please don’t hold me to them – “I will lick my wounds… in the awakening… I will pray for nothing… I will say what I want to… I will not make amends…I will honor the mistaken… I will honor the truth… In the awakening…the forsaken… I will not mourn my youth… I will not mourn my losses…I will not mourn the dead… I will have no bosses… I will want for nothing…I will give you a gift…”) Great song.
12) Seeing Black
13) Unsuffer Me
14) Come On
15) Honey Bee
16) RighteouslyEncore
17) Sweet Side – with Chrissie & JP joining in! Chrissie kneeled at the altar that is Lucinda. Lucinda commented “we made some history tonight”
18) Joy – ” don’t let Sarah Palin take your joy; don’t let the fearmongerers take your joy”Tom, Stog, and Paul – please feel free to make any additions or corrections.
Thank you Tom O for being such a gracious and welcoming host, and THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, LUCINDA, for an awesome mini tour!!!
Love you all! Till next time. 🙂
Aha! I believe Jibcam is one the Chrissie Hynde devotees, who now knows of the wonder that is Lu. If that’s you, girl – welcome! 😀
Sandy
Napa was a night of glorious juxtaposition, with JP, Chrissie, and the Fairground Boys playing the sweet, sad songs, and Lucinda bringing down the house. The night was cool and the moon was big and bright; some might say there was magic in the air.
Lu came out of the gate kicking arse, with a strong, powerful voice –
1) Happy Woman Blues
2) I Just Wanted To See You So Bad
3) I Lost It (“How I feel right now”)
This next group of songs filled up your soul like going to church –
4) Something About What Happens When We Talk
5) Sweet Old World – exquisite
6) Blue – stunning – wish you were there TomT!!!
7) Fruits of My Labor
8 Copenhagen (“This is a new song on the album that will hopefully come out in October. We got a helping hand from Mr. Don Was. I wrote this song when we were on tour in Copenhagan and got word that my former manager, Frank Callari, had suddenly passed away. It was in October, but it had already snowed. I wrote this song after hearing the news”) This is the first time I’d heard this new song, it was heartbreakingly beautiful – “you have disappeared”.
Then mass was over, and we were back to the bidness of rock ‘n roll –
9) Right In Time
10) Drunken Angel – I might say I never heard Lu’s voice sound better on this song, it gave me goosebumps
11) Out of Touch – rocked hard!! It was almost unbearable to remain seated. Lu got a standing O for this.
The new album cannot come out fast enough for me, we went back to church again on the next one –
“Here are a couple other new songs, as I turn the pages of my journal” –12) Convince Me – “that track was really cool when we recorded it. Matthew Sweet sang harmony, and Elvis Costello played guitar on a few tracks”
Val’s guitar was on fire! I thought we might have to break out the fire extinguishers. As a matter of fact, one of my Pretenders’ friends got a picture where his guitar is glowing from the heat. I’ll see if I can get that from her, to post here.
13) Seeing Black – “another song about death that I wrote after I found out Vic Chesnutt had taken his sweet life. Also Mark Linkous. It’s been really intense these last few years. Different things inspire these songs – Pineola, Lake Charles, Sweet Old World, Seeing Black. In the end I feel it’s a positive message – cause you’ve gotta deal with this shit.”
14) Real Live Bleeding Fingers – kicked, of course. By now I just couldn’t stop smiling like an idiot. 😀
15) Essence – “Val, you’re kicking ass tonight, baby!”
16) Changed The Locks – it was getting more and more difficult to stay seated. You know it’s a great night when Lu gets into growling mode in this song (always makes me think of Patsy Cline). “That’s what I’m talking about!” At that point, Val flipped his guitar pick into the audience. The gentlemen sitting on either side of me were mannerly enough to refrain from grabbing it from where it fell, smack dab in the middle of my lap. 😀
17) Honey Bee – no more sitting
18) Righteously
“I can’t say enough about Chrissie Hynde’s music and how much it has influenced me. I couldn’t believe it when I found out we’d be able to do these shows. When I heard the first Pretenders’ album when it first came out, it sent me in a whole new direction.”
Side note – pay attention to Butch every once in a while. He is hilarious – singing along, holding a drum stick in his teeth, sticking his tongue out, etc., but we the audience are so focused on everything else, we don’t even notice.
Encore –
19) Sweet Side – many of the folks by now standing and rocking in the front row had come to the show because of Chrissie, and Lu mesmerized them – the same as she’s done the rest of us. For me, watching them fall under her spell was as much fun as watching kids open Christmas presents.
20) Joy
“Love, Peace, & Revolution, and not the Tea Party kind – the real kind!”
So now here’s a show report for the mini tour from the female perspective, from someone who has followed and admired Chrissie Hynde for 30 years. Chrissie has sold out giant stadiums, and a lesser woman than Lucinda would have been more than intimidated to share a billing with such a force.
Both are fierce, real women with the personal power not to need to prove themselves to anyone. They are both mature women, who after decades in the business, continue to grow in leaps and bounds artistically, and who both still seriously rock!
In talking with the Chrissie Hynde faction, they were duly impressed with Lu and I will grill them tomorrow to learn more of their impressions.
Fashion – Lu wore her cool glasses, cool gray boots, and a Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirt (side note – Ronnie Van Zant’s daughter lives next door to my parents)
Set list –
1) Tears of Joy
2) Can’t Let Go (tried re-starting the song, saying it was disjointed, too much bass, way too fast, and that it wasn’t right for the people to pay to hear that, so just dropped it)
3) Pineola
4) Jackson
5) Don’t Know How You’re Living – a beautiful, slow, sad song (Lu referred back to her temporary meltdown and
blamed it on the oppressive heat) 6) Born To Be Loved – slow, bluesy, kind of heavy tune (“another new one, on the new album out in October”)
7) Ventura (“we’re trying to get in as many of these requests in as possible”)
8 Jailhouse Tears (“now we’re gonna pick things up a little. Val’s gonna take the part of the bad boy”.) Val did the Elvis Costello punk type accent version, vs. Doug’s countrified accent.
9) Buttercup – mid-tempo, more of a rocker than the other two new ones played earlier (“this is a good one to follow that one
. This is another new one I wrote about that same guy – the only bad boy song on the new album. We got Elvis Costello to come in and play on the new album.”) 10) Metal Firecracker (by now Lu has long since recovered from the meltdown and has her mojo back)
11) Drunken Angel
12) Still I Long For Your Kiss
13) Seeing Black (“Here’s another new song; I wrote this after Vic Chesnutt took his sweet life. It’s been a rough couple years losing friends. I should just do an album of suicide songs – I’ve got enough of them.”) This sounded kind of like a fast ‘Out of Touch’ in the beginning. This song got a great and strong reaction from the audience, and is my favorite of the new ones I’ve heard so far.
14) Come On (“this one’s about something else”)
15) Essence (referring again to the heat issue “There’s an old Texas saying that it’s hotter than two pigs f-ing in a wool blanket… or maybe it was 2 rats… Sorry I have such a sailor’s mouth – it’s from hanging out with all guys”)
16) Can’t Let Go revisited (Lu ‘couldn’t let go’ of not getting the song right the way she wanted to earlier in the show. She nailed it this time, and smiled big. “Thank you for letting me do that, now I feel better “ – referencing her obsessive compulsive disorder “seriously, I’m not making fun of it”.)
17) Honey Bee
18) Righteously
Lu then thanked the crowd for coming out and supporting the band, especially in light of these tough times. She also thanked JP, Chrissie, and the Fairground Boys, and said that she couldn’t say enough about Chrissie and what a huge influence she was on her.
Encore
19) Side of the Road – beautiful, stark, solo acoustic version
20) Unsuffer Me
21) Joy
22) West
Awesome show! If you can, get out to see the rest of the shows this week!
Xo,
SandyAwesome read, Masta! Well worth staying up late for! (3am EDT) Will you be at any of the other shows? I’ll be doing Sacramento thru San Diego next week, and have been trying to hang on with the help of the feedback coming in from the fans attending the early shows. Thanks all! 🙂
Sandy
In anticipation of next week’s shows, and tonight’s reviews, I looked at the google map where the Sacramento venue is. On the google map, on the next block over, it shows the Cathedral of the “Blessed”. Coincidence? I think not! 😀
The church’s name is actually Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, but it was shortened on the map.
Can’t wait till next week. 🙂
Is anyone else getting butterflies in anticipation of this month’s shows?! 😯 😀
I think these performances will be extra, extra special. Lu just continues to blossom and expand as an artist – it hardly seems like there would be any room for improvement, but if anyone could do it…
Lafayette,
I believe the video was from the NYC one album per night shows, that I was “Blessed” to see. If they ever happen again, you MUST GO!! Truly a special experience. It was also fun that Lu seemed as tickled to be performing with so many of the artists, as they were awed to be on stage with her.
Still glowing remembering back on the experience… Sometimes, life is really, really good! 😀
He certainly was an enigma –
I think you and I had talked about this book – “Living in the Woods in a Tree – Remembering Blaze Foley” that an old girlfriend had written about him. Some parts laugh out loud funny, some very sad.
Good information, Tom. Thanks!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=911148274470
All I could find about this was that it was supposed to have premiered at SXSW 2009, got cancelled by unforeseen circumstances, and was/is supposed to be released this year.
