Tonight's Setlist: 10/22/11, Table 22, Murrysville, Pa.

"Wish I was a headlight,

on a northbound train..."

Aside from completely destroying the lead-in to the chorus of "Down in the Flood," tonight's set went well.

Early set:

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Dylan)

I Know You Rider (Dead)

Rain Song No. 3*

Sugar Mountain (N. Young) >

Peggy-O (Dead) >

Whiskey Bill (Trad., original arr.)

Althea (Dead)

You Can Keep It*

Glendale Train (New Riders of the Purple Sage)

New Coat of Paint (T. Waits)

New Mexican Shuffle*

The Captain*>

Spanish Ladies (Trad. Eng. sea chantey) >

The Captain* >

Push Those Clouds Away (Trad., original arr.)

Boys in the Barroom (R. Hunter) >

Lie In Our Graves (D. Matthews) >

Southwest Sky* >

Eyes of the World (Dead)

Late set:

Amie (Pure Prairie League)

I Like It*

Crazy Fingers (Dead) >

Uncle John's Band (Dead) >

Like a Rolling Stone Jam > Uncle John's Band >

China Doll (Dead) >

Black Peter (Dead) >

Blues for Allah (Dead) tease >

Pride of Cucamonga (Dead)

Quite a Night*

I Can't Be Satisfied (M. McKinley)

Mother's Meth-Head Blues* >

Dire Wolf (Dead)

Down in the Flood (Dylan)

Rosin the Bow (Trad., original arr.) >

Dark Star (Dead) >

The Other One (Dead) >

Dark Star >

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo (Dead)

Jimmy Olson's Blues (Spin Doctors)

Click here to listen/download, courtesy of Archive.org.

*Original

Tonight's Setlist: 10/12/11, Frankie & Georgie's 4Wood Grille, Pittsburgh, Pa.

'Many is the night we spent pickin' and singin'...'

Good gig. Small crowd, but that will happen when it's a Wednesday night. And it's raining. And you don't start 'til 9'o'clock. Regardless, good crowd, and that's what's important. Click here to listen/download, courtesy of Archive.org.

Even more importantly, I finally got a chance to work in one of my favorite little jams, the English sea chantey "Spanish Ladies," otherwise known as the song Quint sings in Jaws. I actually have the full version with all the verses, but last night was just the chorus:

Althea (Dead)

Rain Song No. 2* >

Whiskey Bill (Trad., original arr.)

Black Peter (Dead)

Mother's Meth-Head Blues*

Dire Wolf (Dead)

You Can Keep It*

Big River (J. Cash) >

New Mexican Shuffle*

Southwest Sky* >

Eyes of the World (Dead)

Row Jimmy (Dead)

Pride of Cucamonga (Dead) >

Valerie (J. Garcia) >

Pride of Cucamonga (Dead) >

The Captain* >

Spanish Ladies (chorus only) (Trad. English sea chanty) >

The Captain* >

Sign on the Window (Dylan)

Midnight Moonlight (P. Rowan)

Early Morning Rain (G. Lightfoot) >

I Don't Know You (New Riders of the Purple Sage) >

You're a Big Girl Now (Dylan) >

Crazy Fingers (Dead) >

'Like a Rolling Stone' Jam >

New Speedway Boogie (Dead) >

Jam* >

The Other One (Dead) >

Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf) >

New Speedway Boogie

I Can't Be Satisfied (M. McKinley)

*Original

Tonight's Setlist: 10/5/11, William E. Anderson Library, Penn Hills, Pa.

'Don't murder me...'

Tonight's set went well. Even got to add a couple extra tunes when one of the performers called in sick with the flu:

Rain Song No. 3*

Sign on the Window (Dylan)

Quite a Night (in Spain)*

I Can't Be Satisfied (M. McKinley)

Althea (Dead)

Dire Wolf (Dead)

*Original