Peter M's exclusive review of Lucinda Williams' concert Wednesday night at the Boston House of Blues:
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| Peter not feeling Blessed |
Tuesday afternoon at my CD store got a couple of Mahler symphonies and a Mozart
opera....and got Blessed.
Wednesday driving in to meet up for the show put the CD in. I had liked what I heard on Youtube. Hmmmm.....this Buttercup doesn't shine too good. She sounds AWFUL! More cuts, more of the same. This CD SUCKS! She better listen to Willy Nelson's advice and pick up the tempo, or this night is going to be a bummer.
After driving around looking for parking for too long and then walking too far in the cold around America's most beloved ballpark (still wrapped in tarps after another winter of improvements), finally got to our meeting spot, The Citizen Pub. (There are very few un-pretentious bars in Boston...this not one of them, but it was fine.) Kay was already there just off a plane from a couple of days in DC, my friend Caryn arrived shortly, and then Carolyn off the T. Couple of drinks and snacks and we're off, hoofing it down to House of Blues in the shadow of the Green Monster.
Great timing...the opening act is wrapping up, and Lucinda comes out after a few minutes. Whew...relief as soon as she opens her mouth and sings "just want to see you so bad" and sounds great. Not the cracking-voiced old lady, Edith Piaf imitation on the CD. Get another Sierra Nevada, this is going to be fun. Good show, mix of familiar and new. I still don't love the Blessed stuff, but it was way better live than on CD. Lucinda sounded great, strong and clear.
We were entertained through most of the show by a young dancing couple, a pretty, slim girl in fashiony leggings and shawls and her skinny boyfriend in grubby hoody, jeans, ball cap, and scruffy beard. She's dancing sinuously and sexily, sometimes solo, sometimes wrapped around Butch, and sometimes with a drink balanced on top of her head! In a plastic cup! No kidding. She left fairly early....I suspect the corps de ballet goes to work early. Inexplicably, Butch comes back, but is soon escorted off by STAFF. Too sexy for HOB? Caryn says she got a whiff of weed. Kay and Carolyn leave a little early, and we stay for a couple more songs, but when she starts another Blessed number we call it a night.
Wednesday driving in to meet up for the show put the CD in. I had liked what I heard on Youtube. Hmmmm.....this Buttercup doesn't shine too good. She sounds AWFUL! More cuts, more of the same. This CD SUCKS! She better listen to Willy Nelson's advice and pick up the tempo, or this night is going to be a bummer.
After driving around looking for parking for too long and then walking too far in the cold around America's most beloved ballpark (still wrapped in tarps after another winter of improvements), finally got to our meeting spot, The Citizen Pub. (There are very few un-pretentious bars in Boston...this not one of them, but it was fine.) Kay was already there just off a plane from a couple of days in DC, my friend Caryn arrived shortly, and then Carolyn off the T. Couple of drinks and snacks and we're off, hoofing it down to House of Blues in the shadow of the Green Monster.
Great timing...the opening act is wrapping up, and Lucinda comes out after a few minutes. Whew...relief as soon as she opens her mouth and sings "just want to see you so bad" and sounds great. Not the cracking-voiced old lady, Edith Piaf imitation on the CD. Get another Sierra Nevada, this is going to be fun. Good show, mix of familiar and new. I still don't love the Blessed stuff, but it was way better live than on CD. Lucinda sounded great, strong and clear.
We were entertained through most of the show by a young dancing couple, a pretty, slim girl in fashiony leggings and shawls and her skinny boyfriend in grubby hoody, jeans, ball cap, and scruffy beard. She's dancing sinuously and sexily, sometimes solo, sometimes wrapped around Butch, and sometimes with a drink balanced on top of her head! In a plastic cup! No kidding. She left fairly early....I suspect the corps de ballet goes to work early. Inexplicably, Butch comes back, but is soon escorted off by STAFF. Too sexy for HOB? Caryn says she got a whiff of weed. Kay and Carolyn leave a little early, and we stay for a couple more songs, but when she starts another Blessed number we call it a night.
Johnnykmusic comment: Yikes, I kinda liked Blessed, although I admit that Buttercup is embarrassingly bad. I'm encouraged that she sounded strong and clear last night, for I was despairing that the voice I once adored had been going the way of one Bobby Zimmerman. (By the way, what were you doing near Wrigley Field?)
Boston Globe review
1 comment:
JK:
USA today had article a while back on Lucinda's new CD and liked it as well. Appreciate the last minute notification on performance of Coltrane/Hartman in Hartford. That whole album is incredible & would have loved to hear it performed live with today's jazz artists.
As for the ballpark = its Fenway... you remember when a Baseball stadium used to be about baseball. I'm sure the Babe is crying every time he hears someone order Sushi in the new Y-Stadium or should I say the house "Hank" built. Just doesn't have the same ring.
Go Huskies.
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