Sometimes Lucinda Williams is hotter than a $2 pistol on Saturday night; sometimes she's more subdued. The veteran singer and songwriter was a little of both Tuesday at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Mass., where her less boisterous side held sway early on in the two-hour, 22-song performance.Not only did she start with the lower-key stuff, she front-loaded the set with older material, too, opening with "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad," from her self-titled 1988 album. Williams dug even further back, playing the twangy country-blues title track from 1980's "Happy Woman Blues," then fast-forwarding to the wry country-rocker "I Lost It" from her 1998 breakthrough, "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road."
She rounded out the opening salvo with the "Pineola," from 1992's "Sweet Old World," and she sang as if the lacerating story of a friend's suicide was as fresh and painful as when she wrote it. - complete review
| Set list 1. I Just Wanted to See You So Bad 2. Happy Woman Blues 3. I Lost It 4. Pineola 5. Metal Firecracker 6. Plan to Marry 7. Side of the Road 8. Blue 9. Rarity 10. Real Love 11. Little Rock Star | 12. Unsuffer Me 13. Essence 14. Changed the Locks 15. Come On 16. Honey Bee 17. Joy 18. Righteously Encore 19. Motherless Children 20. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues 21. Disgusted 22. It's a Long Way to the Top |
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