From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #30 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Monday, February 3 2003 Volume 05 : Number 030 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy in West Creek 2/1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:59:23 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in West Creek 2/1 Disclaimer: This post is longer after the fact than my usual (albeit still less than 24 hours) and may be more disjointed than the usual given the fact that my parents are in town for a week and have ENTIRELY taken over my apartment (essentially, they're doing great and important things and being Very Helpful and I love them dearly and appreciate them too, but there seems to be no real reason for ME to be here in the midst of their chaotic productivity...I am, if anything, a hindrance). Anyway, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the general frenzy and may have trouble thinking clearly enough for my usual level of show reviewing. But I did see Lucy last night, thanks to the extreme kindness of the wonderful Donna Myers, who drove me all the way out to West Creek, New Jersey, where Lucy was playing in a Methodist church. (It was only when I got to Donna's house en route to West Creek, midafternoon, that I heard of the space shuttle disaster...I hadn't watched news all day until then. It was surreal, realizing this had happened as I was merrily planning for a Lucy show. I got the confused feeling that maybe it would be more appropriate to go home and stay there and watch the news and be somber, wondering if doing anything otherwise could seem selfish and shallow. But when I thought about it, seeing a Lucy show was really one of the more life-affirming things I could think of, and that seemed like enough of a reason to continue on with the plans. And the events of the day never officially came up in the course of the evening...not in the opening act, not in Lucy's show...but being there was cathartic in a certain way, and in the end I felt as if it had been the right thing to do.) Donna and I arrived in West Creek in time for an early dinner at a local restaurant and then got to the parking lot of the church a good hour early. We sat obediently in the car and pondered the fact that we were both too polite to try to talk our way into the venue early, even briefly, and trying not to think about how much we were coming to regret the huge infusions of caffeinated beverages we'd ingested at dinner. Finally, we made our way to the door in the cold and rain, and the organizers were gracious enough to allow us inside slightly before the official opening time. (And it continued to be an EXTREMELY friendly and well-run affair...they put on a good show in West Creek, New Jersey!) The church itself was relatively intimate for a concert venue...it was filled with maybe 200 people, though neither Donna and I felt confident in estimating the number. The opener was Terence Martin...pleasant, but we were eager to hear Lucy! She came out in the "preppy" white shirt and the new brown leather jacket, and black jeans. She referred during the show to the fact that she had not worn THIS particular combination before, and she called it the "preppy/biker" look---a new Lucy combination! The sound was WONDERFUL, and Lucy was clearly ON---she didn't miss a lyric or a note. The setlist: Cowboy Singer One Good Reason The Tide Secret Journey (air guitar story) Loch Lomond Don't Mind Me I'm Looking Through You (SO good to hear this again...it had been too long!) I Had Something Ten Year Night (prefaced by a joke about how it had been 17 years since she and Rick had met...when she was five!) At this point, Lucy announced that she wanted to do a request from last week that she felt like playing now. I couldn't tell what she was starting...I didn't dare hope it was The Thief, because that was the song Donna and I had been talking about on the way to the show, and I'd been saying how that would be the song I'd like Lucy to do most because I hadn't heard it in so long. But when Lucy began to sing...it WAS...The Thief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoever made that request, wherever it was made, I am absurdly grateful...it had probably been three years since I'd heard that song live, and it was fantastic. Setlist continued: Scorpion Guilty As Sin This Is Home (there was an adorable 14-month-old girl in the audience, obviously adopted, whom everyone was fawning over all evening...Lucy had mentioned that she'd been feeding Cheerios to little Danielle before the show...and Lucy dedicated the song to Danielle and her mother and said "Let's see if I can get through this without crying"...she only barely did, and WE only barely did!) Land of the Living Written on the Back of His Hand You're Still Standing There (another big treat!) Guinevere (by request) Encore: Mary Magdalene (by request...Lucy said she felt like singing it) A magnificent Lucy show overall...this one definitely made my top 10 list (I can't narrow it down further than that because the Lucy shows I consider the best I've seen have all been special in their own ways.) It was even worth ditching my parents for the evening (though I DID invite them...they just didn't want to go!) and missing the Nields/Eddie From Ohio show in Peekskill. (And unlike in Poughkeepsie, I did get to say hi to Lucy and Rick, who were completely gracious as usual.) That's the report for now, especially since the folks need my attention again...I'm tarrying too long at the computer, looking (heaven forbid) unproductive. Wish me luck in surviving the invasion! :-) Next Lucy show (for me): Purchase, NY on Valentine's Day! Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #30 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message