LA Weekly

Most of the arrangements didn’t deviate much from the spotlighted album’s originals. Still, slow burners like “Something About What Happens When We Talk” and “Sweet Old World” became even more downtempo, with guest Greg Leisz’s pedal steel weaving wistful atmospherics.

The toll of all that singin’, talkin’ and laughin’ did show on Lucinda’s voice, a ragged-but-right instrument under the best of conditions. But her vocal authenticity served her well in the second set, which was peppered with several tracks from West (including the incantatory “Mama You Sweet”), a few choice covers, and a wall-of-glorious-sound version of “Joy.”

Fans that split early missed something special, when the Doors’ Robbie Krieger joined the encore fray. A swirly-spooky “Riders on the Storm” found Lucinda tongue-twisting that menacing Morrison line, “girl you gotta love your man/take him by the hand/make him understand,” with some croaky-drawl feminist attitude. “It’s really an honor when you get to play with your heroes,” Lucinda gushed. As her expanded guitar-army unwound the redemptive “Unsuffer Me,” with Lucinda railing “my joy is dead/I long for bliss,” Robbie tore the song another one, pushing toward the white light with lysergic abandon.

–Tom Cheyney

Photos by Timothy Norris. More photos here.