From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #110 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, June 14 2004 Volume 06 : Number 110 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy in Pawling (Towne Crier) 6/12/04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:15:29 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Pawling (Towne Crier) 6/12/04 The weekend is rapidly escaping...time for a quick review before there is no time left to fit it in! Last night, just one day after hearing the Club Passim show on the Internet, I was lucky enough to make it to the Towne Crier in Pawling, NY to see Lucy in person. It was a gorgeously sunny day, perfect for a train trip followed by a drive. I met Gerry in Connecticut, and we drove up to Pawling on leafy back roads, stopping at an evil-but-delicious fast food place on the way in replication of our last Lucy-at-the- Towne-Crier journey in August 2002. Once at the venue, we met up with Kristen and went in to find our table, only to be shooed out again because they were still serving dinner (the show was 9 p.m.) and we were non-eaters and thus too early. But it was beautiful outside, so we relaxed at one of the outdoor tables until we could make our official entrance. And our reserved inside table turned out to be all the way on the left, but right in front---a perfect view of Lucy. (She had to walk right past us every time she went on or off stage, and I found myself half-consciously lurching to the left each time she went by, not out of avoidance but out of an irrational terror of somehow accidentally tripping her on her way past...let's face it, given the week I'd had, I figured if anyone would end up doing something like that, it would be me. Luckily, I managed to remain out of the way and she remained unscathed.) Anyway, I had perhaps irrationally high expectations for this show, as Lucy's last full Towne Crier show was one of the best I'd ever seen. I wasn't sure Lucy could ever surpass that. But last night...she did. Two sets, no opener...two hours of music, not including the break. Lucy was radiant and in gorgeous voice---she remarked that she sounded good even to herself, and certainly she sounded fantastic to us. She was in black jeans and a sleeveless shirt and vest, so we were treated to the muscle display. And we got Molly stories---how she "sooches" down stairs, how she says hi to everything, including inanimate objects (Lucy kept apologetically saying she had to tell us just "one more cute thing," and of course no apologies were needed---the audience was eating it up!). The set list featured most of the standards plus LOTS of requests, some of which were shouted out (Lucy very sweetly ended up indulging Gerry and Kristen and me with both the songs our little group wanted, The Kid and The Thief) and some of which were placed onstage during the break on the table that held Lucy's water. Here's what she played: No Place to Fall (with Townes Van Zandt story) One Good Reason I Had Something Loch Lomond Ten Year Night (discussion of Molly) The Red Thread (story of the emails from her high school chemistry and gym teachers, and how she later ran into them at a Chicago show and her gym teacher said "But you were GOOD in gym!" and Lucy knew she was lying and still trying to boost her self-esteem!) Don't Mind Me Written on the Back of His Hand Love Song/New York Brooklyn Train (on piano) The Kid (our request...and totally gorgeous) ______ Mary and the Soldier (dedicated to a couple who had been married for 39 years...though they had requested something else and someone else had requested this one---a rarity, stunningly performed) My Name Joe (by request) Line in the Sand Ring of Fire (with audience participation) This Is Home (by request, though Lucy was going to do it anyway---a couple in front said it might as well have been written for their own adopted daughter from China, which made Lucy teary) Land of the Living (I usually don't get very involved with this one these days, having heard it so many times, but last night it just gutted me for some reason) Hot Burrito #1 (on piano---first time I'd heard her do this one in ages!) Song About Pi The Thief (our request, again) By Way of Sorrow Encore: Still Life (this had been the encore at the last Towne Crier show too and had been my request---it was someone else's request last night, but might as well have been mine, pleased as I was to hear it again, there) It was almost 11:30 by the time the show ended, so poor Lucy was probably not destined to get much sleep given that Molly would wake up early in the morning (she mentioned that she and Rick and Molly were all on the road together this weekend). But it was a beautiful night, a fantastic show, with the best possible company...and it will stand out in my memory for a long time. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #110 ******************************* 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