Rams Head Tavern
Baltimore, MD
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Set 1Intro
Bad Little Doggie
About To Rage
Perfect Shelter
She Said, She Said>
Tomorrow Never Knows
Tastes Like Wine
Beautifully Broken
Slackjaw Jezebel
Dreams To Remember w/ Ron Holloway
32-20 Blues w/ Ron Holloway
Bad Little Doggie
About To Rage
Perfect Shelter
She Said, She Said>
Tomorrow Never Knows
Tastes Like Wine
Beautifully Broken
Slackjaw Jezebel
Dreams To Remember w/ Ron Holloway
32-20 Blues w/ Ron Holloway
Set 2Intro
Thorazine Shuffle
Banks Of The Deep End
Game Face>Mountain Jam>Game Face
Birth Of The Mule
Drums
Thorazine Shuffle
Banks Of The Deep End
Game Face>Mountain Jam>Game Face
Birth Of The Mule
Drums
Set 3No Celebration
Rocking Horse
Blind Man In The Dark w/ Ron Holloway
Crowd
E:SoulShine Intro>
E:SoulShine w/ Ron Holloway
Rocking Horse
Blind Man In The Dark w/ Ron Holloway
Crowd
E:SoulShine Intro>
E:SoulShine w/ Ron Holloway
Set 1Intro
Thelonius Beck
Time To Confess
Temporary Saint ->
Patchwork Quilt ->
Larger Than Life ->
Sco-Mule $
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys $
Lola, Leave Your Light On
Thelonius Beck
Time To Confess
Temporary Saint ->
Patchwork Quilt ->
Larger Than Life ->
Sco-Mule $
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys $
Lola, Leave Your Light On
Set 2Intro
Bad Man Walking
Mr. Man
Little Toy Brain ->
Effigy ->
Devil Likes It Slow $
Everyday Is Like A Holiday $
Red House
Mule
Bad Man Walking
Mr. Man
Little Toy Brain ->
Effigy ->
Devil Likes It Slow $
Everyday Is Like A Holiday $
Red House
Mule
Set 3-Encore I-
Hide Your Love Away $
-Encore II-
Hammer And Nails $
Hide Your Love Away $
-Encore II-
Hammer And Nails $
Comment$ w/ Ron Holloway on saxophone
Set 1Rebecca > Christmas Medley
Now
Passion
Lost
Haven't Seen For A While
The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
Beautiful Ways
Don't Give Up
Who Stole Her From Heaven
Must Have Been Love
You And I
Annabelle
Runaway
Shine
Heartache Tonight (The Eagles)
Now
Passion
Lost
Haven't Seen For A While
The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
Beautiful Ways
Don't Give Up
Who Stole Her From Heaven
Must Have Been Love
You And I
Annabelle
Runaway
Shine
Heartache Tonight (The Eagles)
Set 1Intro>
Funkentelechy
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
Gamin' On Ya>
Undisco Kidd
<audience>
To the Window>Get Off Your Ass & Jam>
To the Window
Give Up the Funk
Up for the Down Stroke
Belita's James Brown Intro>
Jam>
James Brown Payback Jam>
Jam>
Bounce to This
Now That I've Got Your Attention>
Bounce to This
Violin Jam
Funkentelechy
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
Gamin' On Ya>
Undisco Kidd
<audience>
To the Window>Get Off Your Ass & Jam>
To the Window
Give Up the Funk
Up for the Down Stroke
Belita's James Brown Intro>
Jam>
James Brown Payback Jam>
Jam>
Bounce to This
Now That I've Got Your Attention>
Bounce to This
Violin Jam
Set 2Ludacris>Rhythm & Rhyme>
George's Verbal Diarreah Jam
Som'n Stank>
Hard as Steel
Do That Stuff>Dr. Funkenstein>
Mothership Connection>
Swing Down, Sweet Chariot>
Mothership Connection>One Nation Jam
Maggot Intro>
Band Intro>
Maggot Brain
Dog Star (Fly On)
Band Intro>
Happy Birthday
One Nation Intro>
One Nation Under A Groove
Sir Nose Intro (taped)>
Flashlight
(Not Just) Knee Deep
Scat Jam>Ants In My Pants>
(Not Just) Knee Deep
Sentimental Journey
Atomic Intro
Atomic Dog
Jam>
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On>
Rap>
Whole Lotta Shakin
Red Hot Voodoo Spacey Jam
George's Verbal Diarreah Jam
Som'n Stank>
Hard as Steel
Do That Stuff>Dr. Funkenstein>
Mothership Connection>
Swing Down, Sweet Chariot>
Mothership Connection>One Nation Jam
Maggot Intro>
Band Intro>
Maggot Brain
Dog Star (Fly On)
Band Intro>
Happy Birthday
One Nation Intro>
One Nation Under A Groove
Sir Nose Intro (taped)>
Flashlight
(Not Just) Knee Deep
Scat Jam>Ants In My Pants>
(Not Just) Knee Deep
Sentimental Journey
Atomic Intro
Atomic Dog
Jam>
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On>
Rap>
Whole Lotta Shakin
Red Hot Voodoo Spacey Jam
Set 1Come Around
Your Mistake
All About The Love
Change Your Mind %
Superman
Starfish
Hold On
Your Winter
Swan Dive
World Inside My Head
All For You
Beautiful Thing
Happy
In The Moment
-Encore-
Champagne High
Thank You
Your Mistake
All About The Love
Change Your Mind %
Superman
Starfish
Hold On
Your Winter
Swan Dive
World Inside My Head
All For You
Beautiful Thing
Happy
In The Moment
-Encore-
Champagne High
Thank You
Comment% The band took the show to the floor unplugged
Set 1Intro
Don't Give Up On Me
Since You Broke It
Cut
First Week
The One I Love #
Killing Me
Cigarette
Don't Give Up On Me
Since You Broke It
Cut
First Week
The One I Love #
Killing Me
Cigarette
Comment# - REM cover
Opening for Sister Hazel
Opening for Sister Hazel
Set 1Guy Clark - LA Freeway
Joe Ely - Up On The Ridge
John Hiatt - Drive South
Lyle Lovett - North Dakota
Guy Clark - Homegrown Tomatoes
Joe Ely - 95 South
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
Lyle Lovett - LA County
Guy Clark - Move With Me, Magdalene
Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You
John Hiatt - Riding With The King
Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train
Joe Ely - Letter To Laredo
John Hiatt - Thing Called Love
Lyle Lovett - In My Own Mind
Guy Clark - Cape
Joe Ely - Slow You Down
John Hiatt - Memphis In The Meantime
Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate
Hiatt/Lovett/Clark/Ely - The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Joan Baez)
Encore:
Guy Clark - Dublin Blues
Joe Ely - For Your Love
John Hiatt - Have A Little Faith
Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House (Guy Clark)
Hiatt/Lovett/Clark/Ely - This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
Porch Songs
Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, Rams Head Live, Feb. 20
By Geoffrey Himes
Joe Ely - Up On The Ridge
John Hiatt - Drive South
Lyle Lovett - North Dakota
Guy Clark - Homegrown Tomatoes
Joe Ely - 95 South
John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
Lyle Lovett - LA County
Guy Clark - Move With Me, Magdalene
Joe Ely - All Just To Get To You
John Hiatt - Riding With The King
Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train
Joe Ely - Letter To Laredo
John Hiatt - Thing Called Love
Lyle Lovett - In My Own Mind
Guy Clark - Cape
Joe Ely - Slow You Down
John Hiatt - Memphis In The Meantime
Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate
Hiatt/Lovett/Clark/Ely - The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Joan Baez)
Encore:
Guy Clark - Dublin Blues
Joe Ely - For Your Love
John Hiatt - Have A Little Faith
Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House (Guy Clark)
Hiatt/Lovett/Clark/Ely - This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
Porch Songs
Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, Rams Head Live, Feb. 20
By Geoffrey Himes
CommentThere they were: the Mount Rushmore of American songwriting, four faces as weathered and craggy as a South Dakota mountain. Sitting in a semicircle of padded orange chairs at Rams Head Live, arranged in alphabetical order from stage left to stage right, were Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, and Lyle Lovett, three Texans and a Hoosier, each with an acoustic guitar resting on his right thigh.
Starting with Clark and then continuing with Ely, Hiatt, and Lovett, they each chose a song on the spur of the moment. Sometimes they sang alone; sometimes one or more of the others joined in on guitar or vocals. Round and round they went until each singer had done six numbers; the group shared the lead vocals on Jesse Winchester's 'Brand New Tennessee Waltz' and Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land,' including the rarely sung socialist verses.
The four have done a short tour together almost every year since 1990, but seldom in a situation like this. When the standing Baltimore crowd started yelping after Clark sang 'Homegrown Tomatoes' on the second go-round, the Lone Staters felt like they were in a dance hall back home. 'We've been mostly playing for people sitting down,' Ely commented. 'And this is a whole different thing.' 'They're frisky,' Clark told him.
The four responded with vibrant performances, as if they were trying to impress not only the frisky audience but each other. When Hiatt reached the bridge from 'Drive South,' the part where he tells his lover to leave behind her nylons because it gets hot where they're goin', he turned it into a spoken-word monologue from a smooth-talking lothario, and Ely doubled over in laughter. When, in Lovett's song, 'If I Had a Boat,' Tonto told the Lone Ranger, 'Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass, I bought a boat,' Hiatt leaned back in his chair, chuckling over the alliteration and internal rhyme.
When Ely played 'For Your Love'''the fastest song I ever wrote''he shouted out the final verse couplet, 'Your love ain't just the hot sauce/ it's the whole enchilada.' That prompted Lovett to drolly explain that enchiladas are like the crab cakes of Texas. And that prompted Hiatt to add that tuna loaf is the enchilada of his home state, Indiana.
Clark, his gray hair brushed back like that of a Civil War senator, has been an elder mentor to the three others, but he's still a productive songwriter and introduced the evening's only unrecorded number, 'Move With Me, Magdalene.' He was saluted by Lovett, who sang Clark's early ballad 'Step Inside This House' with heartfelt respect and admiration. Clark responded with an obviously gratified, slightly embarrassed grin.
It was Hiatt, though, who stole the show. He has obviously been wood-shedding on the guitar, for he was playing with a precision and flair he has never displayed in the past. He played a lively rockabilly solo on Ely's 'Up on the Ridge,' a long blues solo of Lovett's 'My Baby Don't Tolerate,' and lit up his own songs, such as 'Thing Called Love' and 'Riding With the King,' with sparkling solos and fearless vocals. On 'Memphis in the Meantime,' he crowed, 'I don't think Toby Keith is ever gonna record this song''which explains why there was more good songwriting on this night than on any of the recent CMA Awards shows.
Starting with Clark and then continuing with Ely, Hiatt, and Lovett, they each chose a song on the spur of the moment. Sometimes they sang alone; sometimes one or more of the others joined in on guitar or vocals. Round and round they went until each singer had done six numbers; the group shared the lead vocals on Jesse Winchester's 'Brand New Tennessee Waltz' and Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land,' including the rarely sung socialist verses.
The four have done a short tour together almost every year since 1990, but seldom in a situation like this. When the standing Baltimore crowd started yelping after Clark sang 'Homegrown Tomatoes' on the second go-round, the Lone Staters felt like they were in a dance hall back home. 'We've been mostly playing for people sitting down,' Ely commented. 'And this is a whole different thing.' 'They're frisky,' Clark told him.
The four responded with vibrant performances, as if they were trying to impress not only the frisky audience but each other. When Hiatt reached the bridge from 'Drive South,' the part where he tells his lover to leave behind her nylons because it gets hot where they're goin', he turned it into a spoken-word monologue from a smooth-talking lothario, and Ely doubled over in laughter. When, in Lovett's song, 'If I Had a Boat,' Tonto told the Lone Ranger, 'Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass, I bought a boat,' Hiatt leaned back in his chair, chuckling over the alliteration and internal rhyme.
When Ely played 'For Your Love'''the fastest song I ever wrote''he shouted out the final verse couplet, 'Your love ain't just the hot sauce/ it's the whole enchilada.' That prompted Lovett to drolly explain that enchiladas are like the crab cakes of Texas. And that prompted Hiatt to add that tuna loaf is the enchilada of his home state, Indiana.
Clark, his gray hair brushed back like that of a Civil War senator, has been an elder mentor to the three others, but he's still a productive songwriter and introduced the evening's only unrecorded number, 'Move With Me, Magdalene.' He was saluted by Lovett, who sang Clark's early ballad 'Step Inside This House' with heartfelt respect and admiration. Clark responded with an obviously gratified, slightly embarrassed grin.
It was Hiatt, though, who stole the show. He has obviously been wood-shedding on the guitar, for he was playing with a precision and flair he has never displayed in the past. He played a lively rockabilly solo on Ely's 'Up on the Ridge,' a long blues solo of Lovett's 'My Baby Don't Tolerate,' and lit up his own songs, such as 'Thing Called Love' and 'Riding With the King,' with sparkling solos and fearless vocals. On 'Memphis in the Meantime,' he crowed, 'I don't think Toby Keith is ever gonna record this song''which explains why there was more good songwriting on this night than on any of the recent CMA Awards shows.
Set 1You Upset Me Baby
Blues Deluxe
The River
Takin' the Hit
Mountain Time
Wild About You Baby
Burnin' Hell
Woke Up Dreamin'
Pain and Sorrow
If 6 Were 9
Spanish Castle Magic
Blues Deluxe
The River
Takin' the Hit
Mountain Time
Wild About You Baby
Burnin' Hell
Woke Up Dreamin'
Pain and Sorrow
If 6 Were 9
Spanish Castle Magic
Set 1Lysistrata
I Don't Want To Tie You Down
Black And White
Tiny Demons
Song Of The Viking
A Dream Goes On Forever
Free Male And 21
Hello It's Me
Bang On The Ukulele Daily
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Love of The Common Man
Afterlife
One World
Joe Jackson--Real Men
TR with Ethel---Pretending To Care
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Black Maria
I Don't Want To Tie You Down
Black And White
Tiny Demons
Song Of The Viking
A Dream Goes On Forever
Free Male And 21
Hello It's Me
Bang On The Ukulele Daily
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Love of The Common Man
Afterlife
One World
Joe Jackson--Real Men
TR with Ethel---Pretending To Care
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Black Maria
Set 1Improv > Improv > Improv > New Planet > Shine It > The Letter
Set 2Curtis, Paris, Sasa > The Lover > Mami Gato > End Of The World Party; Encore 1: Uninvisible; Encore 2: Queen Bee
Set 1Bad Man Walking
Bad Little Doggie
Perfect Shelter
I'll Be The One
No Need To Suffer
Slow Happy Boys
Slackjaw Jezebel
Perfect Imperfection (1)
Blind Man In The Dark (1)
Bad Little Doggie
Perfect Shelter
I'll Be The One
No Need To Suffer
Slow Happy Boys
Slackjaw Jezebel
Perfect Imperfection (1)
Blind Man In The Dark (1)
Set 2One
Patchwork Quilt
Dirty Work (1)
Devil Likes It Slow >
Drums
I Believe
Don't Step On The Grass, Sam
Thorazine Shuffle
Encore:
Cortez The Killer (2)
(1) with Ron Holloway
(2) with Scott Metzger
Patchwork Quilt
Dirty Work (1)
Devil Likes It Slow >
Drums
I Believe
Don't Step On The Grass, Sam
Thorazine Shuffle
Encore:
Cortez The Killer (2)
(1) with Ron Holloway
(2) with Scott Metzger
Set 1Best Reason To Buy The Sun, Becky, 9x9, Sunny's Song, Welcome Red, Four Sticks *
Comment* w/ Warren Haynes & Andy Hess
opening for Gov't Mule
opening for Gov't Mule
Set 1Jam > Feel Like a Stranger > Big River > Senor > Josephine > Brown-Eyed Women > Lucky Enough, Weather Report Suite Prelude/Part 1 > Let It Grow
Set 2El Paso@3 > The Winners@ > Easy to Slip > Supplication Jam > Easy to Slip > Odessa > He's Gone* > Jam*+ > St. Stephen* > William Tell Bridge* > The Eleven* > Throwing Stones*
Set 3White Lightnin*# > Johnny B. Goode*
Comment*-w/ Barry Sless (pedal steel); +-w/out Bob and Mark; #-w/ A.J. Santella
Set 1Silver Wings
Crying But My Tears Are Far Away
Give Me My Flowers While I'm Living
Dry River
The New World
Rank Stranger
Poor Little Critter on the Road
Burning House Of Love
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Long Chain On
I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
We Don't Even Try Anymore
I'll Go Down Swingin'
In This House That I Call home
Skin Deep Town
Wrecking Ball
Rock Island Line
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Someone Like You
Born To Be Wild
Crying But My Tears Are Far Away
Give Me My Flowers While I'm Living
Dry River
The New World
Rank Stranger
Poor Little Critter on the Road
Burning House Of Love
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Long Chain On
I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
We Don't Even Try Anymore
I'll Go Down Swingin'
In This House That I Call home
Skin Deep Town
Wrecking Ball
Rock Island Line
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Someone Like You
Born To Be Wild
Set 1Minglewood Blues
Loser*
El Paso
Ramble On Rose
Estimated Prophet
Peggy-O
Good Lovin'*
Mississippi Half-Step
Music Never Stopped
Scarlet Begonias
Loser*
El Paso
Ramble On Rose
Estimated Prophet
Peggy-O
Good Lovin'*
Mississippi Half-Step
Music Never Stopped
Scarlet Begonias
Set 2Samson And Delilah
St. Stephen ->
Not Fade Away* ->
Drums ->
Terrapin Station* ->
Morning Dew ->
Sugar Magnolia
Encore Johnny B. Goode
Filler They Love Each Other*
Jack Straw
Second That Emotion
Ripple*
St. Stephen ->
Not Fade Away* ->
Drums ->
Terrapin Station* ->
Morning Dew ->
Sugar Magnolia
Encore Johnny B. Goode
Filler They Love Each Other*
Jack Straw
Second That Emotion
Ripple*
CommentShow: # 1493 Performing 04/11/78 Robertson Gym, Santa Barbara CA.
Notes * w/Donna Jean Godchaux,On Vocals
Opening Band, Donna Jean And The Tricksters.
Notes * w/Donna Jean Godchaux,On Vocals
Opening Band, Donna Jean And The Tricksters.
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