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Monday, February 13, 2017

The Weekend's Setlist: 2/10/17 Club Café, Pgh., Pa. (Bluegrass show)

'Old train each time you pass you're older than the last,
And it seems I'm too old for runnin'...'

When we started doing our bluegrass thang, Trish was a little hesitant about jumping in with an additional harmony part. But she found her groove, and it makes all the difference. When you're singing bluegrass, that third, high part is what gives things the "high, lonesome sound" that characterizes the best of the genre.

Judging by the whoop and holler that follow the first burst of harmony in "Roving Gambler," I'd say we're gettin' there pretty quickly!

Thanks to Corey Kurtz & Dave Marley, and Hollow Oaks for sharing the bill with us. We had a great time!

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

One set:
Old Train (T. Rice)
Dark Hollow (B. Browning)
Streetlight Mama
Mystery Train (J. Parker)
My Sisters and Brothers (J. Garcia)
Midnight Moonlight (P. Rowan)
I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome Too (B. Monroe)
No Expectation (Stones) >
Roving Gambler (Stanley Bros.)
Junko Partner (J. Waynes)
Mother's Meth Head Blues
Loser (Dead)
Cherokee Shuffle (Trad.) >
You Better Get Right (Stanley Bros.)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Tonight's Setlist: Table 22, Murrysville, Pa., 8/6/11


Table 22 is a pretty nice place. Wish the first-set crowd would have stuck around for the second set; they were starting to feel it a little by the end. Maybe I'm just an optimist... listen and download for free, courtesy of Archive.org:

Early set:
Rain Song No. 3* >
Sugar Mountain (N. Young)
Dock of the Bay (O. Redding)
Pride of Cucamonga (Dead)
Two Angels*
Big River (J. Cash) >
New Mexican Shuffle*
Candyman (Dead)
Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot) >
Jam* >
Early Morning Rain
You Can Keep It*
Boys in the Barroom (R. Hunter) >
Box of Rain (Dead)
Breadbox (N. Buffalo)
Quite a Night*
Row Jimmy (Dead) >
Throwing Stones (Dead)

Late set:
Down in the Flood (Dylan)
Southwest Sky*
Mother's Meth-Head Blues*
The Wheel (Dead) >
Magnolia (J. Cale) >
Lady with a Fan (Dead) >
The Captain* >
New Speedway Boogie (Dead) >
Good Morning Lil' Schoolgirl (J. Lee Williamson) >
The Other One (Dead) >
New Speedway Boogie
Cocaine Blues (G. Davis)
Sign on the Window (Dylan) >
Weather Report Suite, Pt. 1 (Dead) >
On a Foggy Night (T. Waits)
Love Please Come Home (B. Monroe)
She Wore a Wreath of Roses (T. Bayly, original arr.) >
Over the Hills and Far Away (J. Page/R. Plant) >
Brown-Eyed Women (Dead) >
5:55 A.M.* >
Jam* >
China Doll (Dead) >
Eyes of the World (Dead)

*Original

Unfortunately, I ran about 15 minutes overtime and didn't get to do what I was hoping, a super-special Shark Week dedication: the full version of the English sea chanty that Quint sings in 'Jaws.' Oh well. It'll have to wait until next year.