Bonnie Raitt / Lyle Lovett Tour


I caught the 2nd show of the Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett tour last night and just wanted to say DONT MISS THIS SHOW!
Lyle and his Large Band sounded great in spite of the fact he is still on crutches. Bonnie was better than ever, her current band Smokes! Highlights for me included the hypnotic cover of David Grays' "Silver Lining", and a song I hoped she would do last night, John Prines' "Angel From Montgomery". Not going to bore you with details, but this might be Bonnie Raitt at her peak, and she has always been great. And when she sings with Lyle its icing.
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Ah...!
FLASHBACK: "Let's go grab some houmas and baba ganoush at the Welles, honey." "Anybody playing tonight?" "Oh, Bonnie's probably there again, so it'll be fun." "Yeah, but she's always a bit loud and scratchy. And you just like her bod!" "Aw, c'mon, maybe someone else will jump in, too, like
one of those blues players she hangs with. Plus we can go see Harder They Come for the sixteenth time at midnight next door if she gets repetitious or too drunk again." "Can't we ever do something NEW, Ern?"
Real conversation with FIRST wife in Cambridge apartment in the early 1970s.
FLASHFORWARD:
"Wow, honey, Terence Blanchard's new CD has Diana, Nora, Dianna, and Jane all singing solos with his band! Wanna sit and listen on our Parsifal/Aleph/EMC-1 MKII system, and y'know, cuddle?" "Aw, I think there's a rerun of ER on."
Real conversation with second (current) wife last week.
Nuff said?!
Ern