Showing posts with label live music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live music. Show all posts

Monday, December 11, 2017

Setlist: 12/9/17 American Legion Post No. 980, Plum, Pa.

Above: 'Fess, a.k.a. Professor Longhair. Our set had
a decidedly N'awlins flavor to the selections..

Man, it's been a helluva long time since I posted on here. Well, that's partially because I just haven't been on my home computer as often, and because since we started what has become the Sweaty Already String Band — the rechristened moniker for Charlie Hustle & the Pickers — we've been hella busy!

But as much fun as I have playing bluegrass and singing high, lonesome harmonies, it's just as much of a blast to send things into rock'n'roll outer-space with the electric band. There's a very strong structure to bluegrass music that I have a deep appreciation for, but I'm also equally attracted to the seemingly limitless improvisational opportunities that come with electrified music and sonic effects.

So here we are. Me playing in two vastly different bands, yet with the same people. Okay, enough rambling. Let's git to the show.

Click here to download/stream courtesy of Archive.org!

Early set:
Cold Rain and Snow (Trad., Dead arr.) >
That's It
Step Aside*
Ophelia (The Band) >
Feelin' Blue (CCR)
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning (D. Van Ronk)
Streetlight Mama*
Lou-Easy-Ann (J.J. Cale)
On the Run*^
Let It Rock (C. Berry)
Mystery Train (J. Parker)

Late set:
Big Bad Blues (Furthur)
Feelin' Alright (D. Mason)
Big River (J. Cash)
Old Home Place Blues (Webb/Jayne, Flynn arr.)
Iko Iko (J. Crawford) >
I Know You Rider (Trad.) >
Back on the Train (Phish)>
Drumz >
Space >
Don't Let Go (J. Stone) >
Mountain Jam (Allman Bros.) >
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Trad., Dead arr.) >
Mountain Jam Reprise#

*First time played
^with 'Tipitina' tease
#with 'Ode to Joy' tease

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Last Night's Setlist: 6/10/16, Penn Hills Library Amphitheater, Penn Hills, Pa.

'Daddy's got them Deep Elem blues...'

Click here to download/stream the set, courtesy of Archive.org.

New tunes? Check. Disco-gospel? Check. My 3-year-old son occasionally wandering up to the stage to talk some shit? ("When does the music start, Daddy?") Check.

Early set:
Queen Cobra
Friend of the Devil (Dead) >
Let It Rock (C. Berry)
I Like It
Dauphine
The Cars Hiss By My Window (Morrison/Manzarek/Krieger)
New Mexican Shuffle
China Cat Sunflower (Dead) >
Feelin' Blue (CCR) >
Jam >
Gravel Road (M. Slim) >
Franklin's Tower (Dead)

Late set:
Cold Rain and Snow (Trad., Dead arr.) >
That's It
Lou-Easy-Ann (J.J. Cale)
Tupelo Honey (V. Morrison)
Deep Elem Blues (Trad., Dead arr.)
Magnolia (J.J. Cale) >
Stone Soup >
Drumz >
Mighty High (J. Ligon)