Tonight's Setlist: 1/5/13, The Twisted Thistle, Leechburg, Pa.

'She don't fix my breakfast, 

she won't even wash my clothes...'

Got a surprise call from The Twisted Thistle for a Saturday-night set — why not? It's been a minute since I played solo. I've mostly been concentrating on rhythm guitar, slide and the occasional solo for Charlie Hustle & the Grifters gigs (SHAMELESS PIMPING: We're playing Jan. 12, St. James Place, 153 S. 18th St., Pittsburgh, only $5!). 

But true to form — and despite being a little rusty on a few numbers — I tried out a few new tunes, a few that we're gonna play next Saturday in the band and another song I learned from Crawford County bluesman Rodger Montgomery, my main man Magic Slim (the photo above) and the Teardrops' "Gravel Road."

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

Early set:

Cumberland Blues (Dead)

Rubber Bullets (10cc)

Garbage Man (M. McKinley)

I Like It*

Dirty Business (New Riders of the Purple Sage)

Rain Song No. 3*

It Hurts Me Too (E. James)

Two Angels*

New Minglewood Blues (Trad., Weir arr.)

Scarlet Begonias (Dead) >

Who Do You Love tease > Scarlet Begonias

Dark as a Dungeon (M. Travis)

Late set:

Cold Rain and Snow (Dead)

Meet Me in the Morning (Dylan)

New Mexican Shuffle*

Third Street Woman (J. Reynolds)

Might as Well (Dead)

Quite a Night*

I Know What I Know (P. Simon)

Strange Moon*

Loser (Dead)

Lawyers, Guns & Money (W. Zevon)

Breathe (Pink Floyd) >

The Other One (Dead) > Breathe Reprise

Box of Rain (Dead)

Gravel Road (Magic Slim)

Junco Partner (Professor Longhair)

*Original