Tonight's Setlist: 9/27/14 Garlicfest XI, North Park, Pgh., Pa. (Private Event)

"Garlicfest XI: The Best Head Around."

This year's Garlicfest was a blast. True, there was no camping with the usual amount of late-night madness. But we brought the spirit of the Crawford County original to Pittsburgh, plus my honey and dick-pepper corn muffins with smoked garlic and leek icing took third place overall!

Our lead guitarist was stuck working mandatory overtime, so we improvised an early set with a little help from some special guests! Click here to stream/download the set courtesy of Archive.org.

Early set*:

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

New Mexican Shuffle**

One Clove (to the tune of "One Love")

Junco Partner (J. Waynes)

Dock of the Bay (O. Redding)***

Lil' Red Rooster (C. Burnett)

I Know You Rider (Trad., Dead arr.)

The Man in Me (Dylan)

Feelin' Blue (CCR)

Cold Rain and Snow (Trad., Dead arr.)

Late set:

Meet Me in the Morning (Dylan)

I Like It**

Good Morning Lil' Schoolgirl (J. Lee Williamson) >

The Garlic Song (R. Gorton) >

Jam >

Stone Soup** >

Midnight Moonlight (P. Rowan)

Back on the Train (Phish)

*Entire first set feat. Tim Bruno, rhythm guitar

**Original

***feat. Kyle Lawson, vocals

Tonight's Setlist: 9/26/14, PGH Abides, Bayardstown Social Club, Pgh., Pa.

"How many of you know the origin 
of the phrase 'Stranger in the Alps'?"

It was a night of ladies with missing toes and Viking helmets, men in bathrobes and hunting eyewear, ziplining blowup dolls with paintbrushes and one guy who was actually wearing the rug that really tied the room together. If you don't understand any of that, you need to go watch "The Big Lebowski" ASA-MF-P.

Thanks to Pandemic and Weather Permitting for having us back, and big thanks to special guest drummer Bobby D^ for sitting in. Click here to stream/download the set courtesy of Archive.org.

Early set:

The Man in Me (Dylan)

New Mexican Shuffle*

Gentleman of Leisure (J. Winchester)

Mother's Meth Head Blues*

China Cat Sunflower (Dead) >

Feelin' Blue (CCR)

Lookin' Out My Backdoor (CCR)

Good Mornin' Lil Schoolgirl (J. Lee Williamson) >

Jam > Schoolgirl Reprise

Late set:

Back on the Train (Phish)

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

Friend of the Devil (Dead) >

Run Through the Jungle (CCR) >

Friend of the Devil

Nine-Toed Blues*#

Junco Partner (J. Waynes)

Slow Train (T. Bruno) >

Stone Soup* >

Cold Rain and Snow (Trad., Dead arr.)

*Original

#First time played; written especially for PGH Abides 2014
^Both sets with Bob DiCola, drums

Tonight's Setlist: 9/20/14 Nied's Hotel, Pgh., Pa.

'We're gonna cover a song by my guilty-pleasure 

band... and Trish's earnest-pleasure band...'

Tonight felt like a good night. I'm listening to the first-set tape right now, but the second set always tells the tale. Nied's Hotel amphitheater is pretty great. We barely needed monitors because of the brick walls on either side of the stage, and started to hit a real nice groove midway through the early set, probably due to the addition of a few new numbers: an old bluegrass tune, "Midnight Moonlight," and a big bouncy Phish song, "Back on the Train."

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

Early set:

Cumberland Blues (Dead)

Quite a Night (in Spain)*

I Like It*

New Mexican Shuffle*

Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning (D. Van Ronk)

Midnight Moonlight (P. Rowan)

Mother's Meth Head Blues*

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

Slow Train (T. Bruno) >

Gentleman of Leisure (J. Winchester)

Back on the Train (Phish)

Late set:

Evil Mind* >

That's It*

Friend of the Devil (Dead) >

Run through the Jungle (CCR) > 

Friend of the Devil

Equinox > 

Jam >

Stone Soup* >

Spoonful (W. Dixon) >

Jam >

Smokestack Lightning (C. Burnett) >

Viola Lee Blues (Dead) >

China Cat Sunflower (Dead) >

Viola Lee Blues

E: Mama Tried (M Haggard)#

Move It On Over (H. Williams)#

*Original

#with Slim Forsythe

Tonight's (Acoustic!) Setlist: 9/5/15 Park House, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Poppin' peanuts and pickin' at the Park House...

It was our second acoustic show in a row tonight, although this one wasn't really planned as a Charlie Hustle show. I played a quick solo set, The Grifters did their thang, and then we formed like Voltron for the late set, which is what will be posted to stream/download.

On a reminiscent sidenote, my uncle used to bring me to the Park House — one of those great old-school all-wood joints where you get free peanuts and you can toss the empties right on the floor — before Pirate games when I was a kid. So it was pretty cool to play there two decades later.

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

Late set:

Come On Into My Kitchen (R. Johnson)

I Like It*

Mother's Meth Head Blues*

Love Please Come Home (B. Monroe)

Quite a Night*

Black Peter (Dead)

Berta Berta (Trad., Varine arr.)

Back On The Train (Phish)

Ophelia (The Band)

I Know You Rider (Dead)

*Original