From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #11 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 Sunday, January 18 2004 Volume 06 : Number 011 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy in Northampton 1/17/04 Part 1 [lucy-list] Lucy in Northampton 1/17/04 Part 2 [lucy-list] Northampton tonight ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:20:28 -0500 From: "benruth@earthlink.net" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Northampton 1/17/04 Part 1 I am not at home yet but staying with relatives in MA and using their computer while trying not to wake anyone up...so I may not be able to go into much relaxed detail...but tonight's show at the Iron Horse was one of the best Lucy shows I've ever seen. (I know, I know, that list keeps getting longer, but I can hardly help it.) I loved it so much that I am painstakingly putting off listening to the new CD (which looks stunning) so that I can remain clearheaded enough to write SOMETHING about the show. I took the train from New York to Connecticut, where my wonderful road buddy Gerry met me and drove me the rest of the way to Northampton. It was a fast and delightful trip that allowed us time before the show to explore the many wonders of Northampton, which is the only place in the U.S. (so we were told) to boast a store entirely devoted to dental hygiene products. Despite my utter terror of most things dental (unlike Lucy, whose dental perfection has come up here before, I have terrible teeth), I was utterly fascinated by the very existence of this store (called Tooth Pix) and would definitely put it on the list of must-see tourist attractions in Northampton. I also highly recommend the ice cream in Northampton, which is full of enough good stuff to make one really NEED the products in the Tooth Pix store! Anyway, back to the Iron Horse...Gerry and I met up with Kristen in line, and we were let in shortly after 5:30. Jeffrey Foucoult opened at 7, so Lucy took the stage right about 8. The Iron Horse, while not totally sold out, was VERY close to sold out...and the crowd was wildly enthusiastic about Lucy. She came on in her newest, expensive (as she states) leather jacket, the one also purchased by Annie Lennox and Debra Messing, and launched right into a show that made the two months she'd been away from the stage before this weekend seem like no time at all. She seemed relaxed and open with the audience, and the show felt informal enough that she didn't seem to have a real set list, but was taking requests as well as playing songs she wanted to play, some of which made their first appearances in a LONG while... Set list to follow... - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:41:35 -0500 From: "benruth@earthlink.net" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Northampton 1/17/04 Part 2 OK, here was the set list: Cowboy Singer One Good Reason (in the spot where Written on the Back of His Hand often used to be...this was possibly the first Lucy show I'd seen since before Every Single Day came out in which Lucy did NOT do WOTBOHH! I missed it, but there were so many other great songs she DID do that I couldn't really mind) More Than This(!--she said someone had asked for it earlier in the week and she'd been reminded how much she liked playing it...glad it's still in somewhat active rotation, as she sings it gloriously) Guilty as Sin (with reminder: "That was NOT autobiographical!) I Had Something The Red Thread (prefaced by an explanation of the CD title and stories of Molly, told with the absolute pride and delight of an obviously adoring mother...Lucy's baby-diapering song was sung, provoking much audience laughter...and apparently tonight at the hotel, Molly sat on Rick's lap and typed on the computer, and her first TYPED word, Lucy was amused to tell us---as opposed to her first SPOKEN word, which was "mama"---was "ass"!) Don't Mind Me Brooklyn Train (on piano) Ten Year Night Line in the Sand By Way of Sorrow This Is Home (Lucy said she wasn't sure she could get through this one, and she DID get through it, but it clearly wasn't easy...she was crying by the time she got halfway through, or at least I think she was although I could hardly see because I was so teary myself...there was a moment in the second chorus where she clearly chose NOT to go to a high note because she couldn't reach it right then, and a lump formed instantly in my throat and didn't entirely go away through the rest of the song) Return of the Grievous Angel (because she had to sing something that WOULDN'T make her cry...though she remarked that this one was about coming home, too) Land of the Living Guinevere Encores, by request, were: This Is Mine (!!!---hadn't heard THIS live in a long time---a true rarity, especially since it involves retuning of the guitar) If You Could See (on piano...stunning, as this song always is) The applause then was so wild that Lucy came back for a SECOND encore, dedicated to and based on a request by a woman in the audience who was giving the exact RIGHT reactions to what Lucy was saying onstage---sighs of understanding in all the right places that Lucy could hear and was impressed by: My Name Joe Many thanks to Gerry and Kristen for the rides and the good company...they and anyone else who was there should feel free to add whatever I've missed here. Now, off to finally listen to The Red Thread before falling asleep...IF I can fall asleep after a show like that! (Thank goodness I brought my personal CD player just for this purpose!) A truly magical evening, totally worth coming through the cold to experience. Benay - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:04:33 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Northampton tonight Oh thank god Benay got to a computer before me I didn't know what to say about tonights show! It was absolutely amazing...perfection. I agree with Benay...it was if not the best, one of the top Lucy shows ever. She was in a great mood and obviously was having a blast on stage. And I FINALLY got to hear This Is Mine live. A certain little person even made an appearance before the doors were opened :) She's absolutely adorable! The night was perfection...well minus the psychotic lady who got into my car while I was starting it and demanded I drive her up the street then proceded to tell me about hot tubs across the street from Smith college and delayed my arrival to pick up Benay a street away...umm yeah...i'm still a little wierded out about it. But I did manage to get in this time before the snow started and there were no moose! - -Kristen _________________________________________________________________ Find high-speed net deals  comparison-shop your local providers here. https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #11 ****************************** 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