Last Night's Setlist: 9/20/12, Coco Coffeehouse, Leechburg, Pa.

I took the calculated risk of going into last night's gig without any prepared setlist, which is a first for me. Even when I was going to open stages back in the early 2000s, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to play, mostly because of my preference for stringing together suites of songs.

But I wanted to try just flipping through the songbook and sort of following the vibe of the evening. At times, it made for a bit less cohesion, and there was the occasional flub, since as per usual, I was playing songs either for the first time at a gig or the first time in a long time at a gig.

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

Early set:

Anna Begins (Counting Crows)

Big Railroad Blues (Dead)

Drag the Lake, Charlie (Drive-By Truckers)

Lookin' Out My Back Door (CCR)

New Minglewood Blues (Dead)

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (L. Helm/R. Robertson)

Dauphine*

Sugar Mountain (N. Young)

I Like It*

It Hurts Me Too (E. James)

Me and My Uncle (Dead)

Late set:

Don't Look No Further (B.B. King)

On a Foggy Night (T. Waits)

Man Smart, Woman Smarter (N. Span)

It Makes No Difference (R. Danko)

Strange Moon*

Little Wing (J. Hendrix)

Third Street Woman (J. Willie Reynolds)

Have Someone Play Dixie For Me (Dry Branch Fire Squad)

In Color (J. Johnson)

Highway 29 (Springsteen)

Rosie (Trad., Varine arr.)

In the Pines (Leadbelly)

New Mexican Shuffle*

Will Ye Go Lassie Go? (Clancy Bros.)

You Can Keep It*

Slow Train (T. Bruno) >

Dark Star (Dead) >

Jam > Dark Star >

Slow Train

*Original