Friday, Nov 4, 2011

Lucinda Williams

Blessed

Date
Friday, Nov 4, 2011
Venue
Capitol Center for the Arts
City
Concord, NH

John confirmed the 2011 date over the 2009 one. The Blessed tour. It sits alongside his Yo La Tengo (September) and Andrew Bird (October) nights in the same room that autumn — three shows at the Capitol Center in ten weeks.

What they played

  1. Drunken Angel
  2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  3. Pineola
  4. People Talkin'
  5. Sidewalks of the City
  6. Stowaway in Your Heart
  7. Copenhagen
  8. Blue
  9. Fruits of My Labor
  10. Born to Be Loved
  11. Tryin' to Get to Heaven Bob Dylan cover
  12. I Lost It
  13. Sweet Side
  14. Come On
  15. Unsuffer Me
  16. Essence
  17. Changed the Locks
  18. Joy
  19. Honey Bee

Encore

  1. Blessed
  2. It's Not My Cross to Bear The Allman Brothers Band cover
  3. Get Right With God

22 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

The moment

Lucinda Williams spent decades being called a perfectionist like it was a flaw — six years between albums, songs rewritten until they bled — and then Car Wheels on a Gravel Road proved the method by becoming an American classic. By 2011 she was touring Blessed in her late-career groove: the great poet of Southern longing playing a converted New Hampshire theater, catalog deep enough that every setlist disappointed someone. Some artists you see for the new record; Lucinda you see for the sentences.

From the time

The stub

No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add "stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.