From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V8 #21 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 Tuesday, May 2 2006 Volume 08 : Number 021 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Cedar Cultural Center ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 13:05:11 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at the Cedar Cultural Center We closed out a busy April at the Cedar (Lucy, Richard Shindell, Ani DiFranco et. al.) with Kaplansky playing solo on a cold and rainy Saturday night. I sat at the Ticket will-call window and it was quite busy. Normally these shows have a discounted price for advance purchases but tonight it was the same either way ($23) and there were probably 40-50 tickets left over in the end (a good number of them would have been standing room tickets). The theater certainly LOOKED full, with the occasional single seat. There were about 400 paid with a BIG guest list as she got heavy local radio support from our two cool stations. Needless to say, I am not qualified to review the first set. Hmmph! I broke free of the ticket duties and poked my head into the theater long enough to hear a couple of Lucy's stories about Molly, one of them VERY cute indeed. It seems that Molly likes to imitate Lucy performing her show. She will pick up the guitar, pretend to plug it in (!) sit down and strum. Well, Lucy recently acquired a mandolin, which is more on Molly's scale, so one day she decided to perform a concert for all of her stuffed animals. She lined them up, plugged-in and played through her entire set (which consists of one song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). Then Rick, just for fun, asked her if she was going to sign autographs after the show. So Molly went up to each stuffed animal in turn, strummed a chord for it, and touched it on the head (!). She then went into one of the new songs, formerly titled "Goodnight Moon" (soon abandoned because of copyright concerns) and currently titled "Manhattan Moon". The second set was a wonderful collection of material. I closed the cash box and missed the first song of the set, but by the description from the guy just inside the door, it was probably "Scorpion". "Don't Mind Me" followed. Next came a song that I did not recognize :>( Sounded like "Just look at yourself...When you love someone, that's what you do..." Do any of you remember Lucy's so-called "Angry Woman Trilogy"? Then Lucy added a fourth one to it, which she called "the pre-quel to the angry trilogy"? This one would have been a good addition to those four. "Line in the Sand" followed, then "Ring of Fire" and a story about how she recently saw that movie on an airplane. An abridged version of "Walk the Line" followed the story. It's funny, but when I finally got home and tried to put a DVD into our player, there was a copy of "Walk the Line" in the player that someone had rented and watched earlier in the night while I was out. So I watched. Lucy was right, it is a great movie! She opened the floor to requests and "Guinevere" won out. She then moved over to the piano for "Brooklyn Train". But returned to the guitar right away :>( to do "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?". A song from the Nod to Bob album ,"It Ain't Me" and then "The Heart" from The Tide, a song she remarked which had taken on added meaning since becoming a mom. She mentioned that in November they celebrated the anniversary of Molly's coming home with them, which is known in adoption circles as "gotcha day". I thought that was clever. My notes get downright unintelligible from that point on as I squeezed the letters into a smaller and smaller empty space on my paper. I do know that she did "This is Home", then followed with a touching tribute to the recently departed Bob Feldman (president of Red House Records and big music supporter in these parts). She played a song she said was Bob's favorite and related how they had once had an argument about a couple of wordings in the lyrics prior to it being recorded. The song was "Still Life" (Flesh and Bone)" and Bob prefaced the argument by saying to her, "Lucy, if we ever have an argument about your music, then you will win". She thought that was pretty special for a record company owner. There was another song that I can't make out....something like "Thusang + Bido" and an unintelligible note that could be a note or it could be a song. But that is the general picture--practically an entire show in just the second set! I came home with a copy of the re-issued "Tide", which is a very attractive package but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet. Timothy in south Minneapolis ( PS Kristen, there was a guy in the meet and greet who was a high school teacher and expressed an interest in getting a copy of "A Song About Pi". I suggested and Lucy concurred that you would be a good place to try. Let me know off-list if you're out there and might be able to help. Thanks!) - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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