This past Friday night we got to see Lucinda, touring in support of her new record, Little Honey.
Opening for her was a band called Buick 6. I hadn't heard of them but they came out, played 6 songs and rocked the house in a big way, finishing with an instrumental cover of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog." Turns out this is the band backing Lucinda so when she hit the stage and they came out with her I figured this might be a different Lucinda than I'd seen in the past.
This was a great show! Buick 6 is 4 younger guys and includes a couple of hot shot guitar slingers. I think she really likes playing with this band and they have given her a much needed shot of energy when it comes to playing live. They also have made her older songs sound fresh.
Even though Lucinda is known more for country, Americana, whatever you want to call it, she has the heart of a punk rocker. Playing with this group it comes out! She is rocking, having fun and it shows.
Her set lasted almost 2 hours. She didn't do much of the new material though. "Real Love," "Honey Bee," "Tears of Joy" and the AC/DC cover "It's A Long Way To The Top," which ended the show, were the only songs off the new record.
The set was a nice mix from her entire catalog including some of the old blues standards she used to play along with several songs from Essence and Sweet Old World. She also did an acoustic set of 4 or 5 songs including "Crescent City," my favorite! They opened the encore with the old Rod Stewart rocker, "Every Picture Tells A Story."
I did video several songs and most are up on my youtube site already. There are a couple I still need to upload and eventually it will happen.
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