Tonight's 'Tweener Set: 3/3/12, The Hideout, Pittsburgh, Pa.

"Nothin's shakin' on Shakedown Street..."

Special thanks to the Old E Allstars for letting me pluck a few tunes — including the debut of a brand-new song, "Dauphine" (lyrics below) — in between a few blissful hours of dirty soul. Click here to download/stream, courtesy of Archive.org:

Rain Song No. 3*

Strange Moon*

Dauphine*

Alligator (Dead) >

Smokestack Lightning (C. Burnett) >

Shakedown Street (Dead)

*Original

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"Dauphine" (P.Varine)

Way up at the top of Dauphine

The doors are painted and the girls all gleam

Steppin' down Bourbon when I caught that shine

Those girls catch me every time

Two doors down and around the bend

Cherise all dressed in red again

Leanin' out her garden gate

Actin' like I'm runnin' late

Down Dauphine a block or two

Annabelle and Emma Lou

Laughing low and singing how

I'm gonna be in trouble now

Down where Emma Lou gets paid

The doorways lean and the paint all fades

Father John falls out the bar

Says 'Hope that you know where you are'

Red light shinin' out on me

At the far end of Dauphine

Runnin' from a big po-leece

There goes sweet petite Cherise

I woke up a-feelin' broke

This old street it ain't no joke

A headlong fool could lose his green

With a wayward walk on down Dauphine...