Ooh my love .....LIVE

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I only recently discover this. What a surprising anomaly, especially if she was considering adding a never-performed deep album track from her previous album to the set list for the tour she was planning for her new album. The song was featured on the Enchanted box set; so she is obviously proud of it.

It sounds pretty good live, yet it never made it to the stage for this tour or any of her subsequent tours. I wonder if this song a serious set list contender, or were they just entertaining themselves, as this new band configuration was just getting itself together. Perhaps Rick Vito suggested playing it.

I saw her Whole Lot of Trouble (TOSOTM) show early in that tour, and was impressed and happy that she performed a reasonable amount of songs from the album. Her voice was strong and clear, despite her lethargic state.

Rooms on Fire
Two Kinds of Love
Whole Lotta Trouble
Alice
Juliet

Ooh My Love, Long Way to Go and Doing the Best that I Can would have been great on stage. Early on, she dropped Juliet and Talk to Me from the set (I'm grateful I got to see those songs performed - especially Juliet, because it was a memorable highlight of the show). But she didn't replace it with another song. Why not rotate/swap some of those songs at each show? It seems once a set list is is established, it's set in stone, like a scripted stage play. "It's all the same, it's all the same."

My guess is that it's just more easier for her to to perform the well-worn road songs, with the mindset that her audience just wants to hear the songs they are most familiar with. That is true to a certain extent. But when you tour behind a new album, to promote it, shouldn't you have confidence in the new material to feature more than 3 or 4 new songs? The ideal mix I'd prefer is 45% new material, 45 hits & popular songs and 10% deep tracks/off beat material.