Sunday, July 20, 2008

Cindy smokin'....

Didn't catch Lucinda Williams this time around (she was headlining the Green River Festival in Greenfield, MA Saturday night), and it was our loss 'cause she ripped it up in Trumansburg two nights before.

From the Ithaca Journal: Usually the first day of the GrassRoots Festival is a mere appetizer for the rest of the weekend, but this year the annual gathering in Trumansburg got off to a running start with headliner Lucinda Williams, who played a hard-rocking set Thursday evening on the Grandstand Stage. Taking the stage at 8:58 p.m. (two minutes before her scheduled 9 p.m. start), Williams, sporting a “You Rock” t-shirt, kicked off with two new songs, “Real Love” and “Tears of Joy” sandwiched around “2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten,” from her acclaimed 1998 album “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” “Car Wheels” was well represented throughout the night by “Joy” (which incorporated the riff from Led Zeppelin's “Heartbreaker”), “Drunken Angel” and “Right in Time,” which is probably one of the most sensual rock songs ever written. ......The pace really picked up when Williams strapped on an electric guitar. The high point of the set soon followed with “Come On” (from her 2007 album “West”), which came off sort of like the Pretenders meets Crazy Horse — Williams shouted out the chorus while her band Buick 6 rocked out behind her. In fact, Buick 6 impressed throughout the night, especially guitarist Doug Pettibone, who wailed on “Out of Touch” (from 2001's “Essence”) and many other songs; indeed, the four-piece band sounded like the “Exile on Main Street” Rolling Stones many times during the set. Williams seemed to be having a good time throughout the night, at one point stating “I wish the whole world could be like this.” -full article

Cool feature on Lucinda's website- Concert set lists

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