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Varsity Theater

Baton Rouge, LA
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02/14/1995
Better Than Ezra
Set 1In the Blood
Hung the Moon
Circle of Friends
Teenager
Speeding Up to Slow Down
Cry in the Sun
Southern Gurl
Hold Me Down
Summerhouse
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03/28/1997
Jazz Mandolin Project
Set 1Monkey Blake, Listos, Igor, Nardis, The Gourd, The Opera
Set 2Double Agent, Stockholm Smoke Pipe Smokepipe, Nozani Na, Thoracic Outlet, Country Open, E: Mandoneon, Foreplay
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05/??/1997
George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners
Set 1I Need More Time>Funksomethingness>I Need More Time, Rough Spots, Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley, Heart Thief, No More Okie Doke, Mississippi Music, Up Late At Night, People Say, Ride Your Pony, Count On You, Juanita, I Didn't Know I'd Miss Home So Soon?, Happy Song
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10/07/1997
Rusted Root
7032
Set 1Disc One

01: Faith I Do Believe
02: Heaven
03: Laugh As The Sun
04: Cat Turned Blue
05: Virtual Reality
06: She Roll Me Up
07: Martyr
08: Tree
09: Wont Be Long
10: Lost In A Crowd
11: Cruel Sun


Disc Two

01: Magenta Radio
02: Food & Creative Love
03: Back To The Earth
04: Drumz >
05: Ecstasy
06: Encore Break
07: Send Me On My Way
08: ?
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10/07/1997
Laura Love Band
Set 1Amazing Grace
Anyway
I Am Wondering
Aha Me A Riddle I Day
Come As You Are
Put A Little Love In Your Heart
Can't Understand
All The Pushing
Bad Feeling
Octoroon
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11/15/1997
Better Than Ezra
Set 1At Ch. DeGaulle Etc.
Long Lost
Good
Like It Like That
Rewind
Normal Town
At the Stars
King of New Orleans
Pull
New Kind of Low
This Time of Year
Still Life with Cooley
Return of the Postmoderns
Circle of Friends
Set 2Porcelain
False River
Rosealia
Comet Hunting
Allison Foley
Desperately Wanting
Wintercoats->State Street State of Mind
Ezra Pound
Devil Girl
Speeding Up to Slow Down
In the Blood
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05/13/1998
String Cheese Incident
Set 1Chili Dawg > Another Night, Lester had a Coconut, Got What He Wanted > Elvis' Wild Ride > Bigger isn't better > San Jose
Set 2100-Year Flood > All Blues, Climb, Good Times, Mouna Bowa, Wake Up > Franklin's Tower* > I Know You Rider
Comment* with Keller Williams on vocals
Setlist courtesy of <a href="http://www.friendsofcheese.com">Friends of Cheese</a>
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03/05/1999
Galactic
Set 1Who Took The Happiness Away?, Doubliewide, Go-Go, Thrill, Running
Man,
Check Out Your Mind, Love On The Run, As Big As Your Face, Blue For Ben*,
Charlie Dozen*
Set 2Freedom Acid Jazz Dance, My Little Humidor, Doo Rag**, Hamp's
Hump***, Something's Wrong With This Picture***, Start From Scratch***,
Change My Ways***, Crazyhorse Mongoose***
Set 3E: Bootlegger***
Comment* - w/ members of Quintology and "other NOLA musicians"
** - w/ many references to other Galactic tunes, a We Want The Funk jam by
Rich, and GRATUITOUS use of that awesome fuckin' Moog
*** - w/ more horn players (one of them is DAve Dunbar)
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09/09/1999
Jupiter Coyote
Set 1Rose Hill, Confusionville->Drews Theme, Tumbleweed, Words, Inquire With Delight->Hick->Cindi->Jot, Real Thing, Snakehandler, Ship In The Bottle, Crazy Women, e:Duelin' Banjos->Foggy Mtn. Breakdown
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
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10/07/1999
Laura Love
Set 1MC's Intro
Amazing Grace
Anyway
I Am Wondering
Aha Me A Riddle I Day
Come As You Are
Put A Little Love In Your Heart
Can't Understand
All The Pushing
Bad Feeling
Octoroon
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11/18/1999
Galactic
Set 1Baker's Dozen, Double Wide ->Untitled Meters Song, Thrill, Action Speaks Louder Than Words, Villified, Running Man, Blue Pepper, Working In A Coal Mine, Spicoli's Toe
Set 2Black Eyed Pea, Sweetback, Snowball, As Big As Your Face, My Little Humidor, Metermaid ->Funky Miracle, Something's Wrong With This Picture, Century City Girl, Love On The Run

Encore: Who Took The Happiness Away
Set 3
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09/29/2000
Kudzu Kings
4535
Set 1disc 1:
1. mississippi mud
2. naturally
3. door
4. bar-b-q blues
5. my guitar
6. that's alright
7. bubba
8. no one else seems right
9. hangover heart
10. alabama jubilee
11. rototiller
12. it's a play
13. workin'
14. dream
15. amsterdam
Set 2disc 2:
1. bound for zion > here comes terry
2. don't wanna tell ya
3. I've got a Friend
4. mellie
5. bridge
6. stage banter
7. lsu fight song
8. tick taxi
9. you and I and george (broken string goofiness)
10. powder blue (pretty sure that's the name)
11. wonder woman
12. goin down the road feelin' bad
--Encore--
13. punk poet
14. uninvited
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10/18/2000
Galactic
Set 1Shibuya
Doo Rag
Uno Dos Tres Quatro
Bobski 2000->Villified
Century City
I Get Lifted*
Blackeyed Pea
Lumpology
Baker's Dozen
Moog Marmalade
Something's Wrong With This Picture*
Running Man
Hit The Wall
Metermaid
Chicken Pox
Daktari Walk
Thrill
Sweetleaf
encores: Hamp's Hump, Why Can't We Live
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11/03/2000
Better Than Ezra
Set 1King of New Orleans
Allison Foley
Sincerely, Me
Good
Jump
Coyote
A Lifetime
Live Again
Happy Day MaMa
Briefly
Rosealia
Hollow
At the Stars
Set 2In the Blood
Tell Me Something
Like It Like That
Misunderstood
In the Blood
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09/05/2001
Edwin McCain
Set 1Far From Over
Darwin's Children
Sun Will Rise
"My Favorite Gig"
Heart's Fall
"4th Album"
Letter To My Mother
"Craig & His Haircut"
One Thing Left To Do
"We left Larry!"
Beautiful Life
"Nice Songs"
Get Out Of This Town
Write Me A Song
"Feelin' Chatty"
Promise Of You
"Skeet Shoot"
I'll Be
I've Seen A Love
"We Love You"
Sorry To A Friend
I Could Not Ask For More
"Drunk Phone Call" *
3 A.M.
Ghosts Of Jackson Square
"VH1 & Creed"
Radio Star
CommentThis is an all-around great Edwin McCain show. Some very funny
Edwin speaks. The second half is all solo acoustic except for Sorry To A Friend where Pete Riley & Craig Shields join in on guitar & keys.

* Some [drunk] guy in the audience kept yelling out to play "3 AM"
all night long and finally Edwin acknowledged him and played it.
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02/14/2002
Mofro
Set 1Blackwater
How Jr. Got His Head Put Out
They Caught the Devil (Tony Joe White)
Free
Lachloosa->Florida
Set 2Freestyle Jam???
Lazy Fo' Acre
Take it back to the bridge (Asie Payton)
Ho Cake
Frog Giggin'
Dirt Floor Cracka
The Great Stagger Lee (Snatch and the Poontangs)
Jookhouse
Gotta Know
Jamaica Nights???
Comment-entire set with George Sluppick on drums
-Frog Giggin' is cut in the middle of the song
-The Jamaica Night song is JJ singing reggae and is funny as shit!
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05/02/2002
Yonder Mountain String Band
9816
Set 1Boatman >, Bolton Stretch, Father's Arms, You're No Good, Mental Breakdown, Town, 20 Eyes, Keep On Going > Legalize It > Elzic's Farewell > Keep On Going
CommentOpened for Leftover Salmon
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05/07/2002
Leftover Salmon
Set 1Boo Boo, Doorstep of Trouble, 99 Years, Key to the Highway, Amnesia, Boscoe Stomp, Get Me Outta This City, Are You Ready For the Country?, Solid Ground, Paving Eisenhower, Railroad Highway
Set 2Better, White Freightliner Blues, On the Other Side, Take Me Back to That Mt. Top, Down in the Hollow, Bill's Boogie, Delta Queen, Shuckin' the Corn, Chuck's Reggae, Coal Tattoo > Wondering, Big River, Y'All Come, Walkin' Cane, Big Baboo
E: Blister in the Sun
CommentYonder Mt. String Band opened.
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05/07/2002
Yonder Mountain String Band
Set 1Boatman > Bolton Stretch, Father's Arms, You're No Good, Mental Breakdown, Town, 20 Eyes, Keep On Going > Legalize It > Elzic's Farewell > Keep On Going
CommentOpened for Leftover Salmon.
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01/24/2003
Galactic
16411, 146439
Set 1Pocket Full of Sap, mario's groove, doublewide, c-minor, metermaid > wurlirich > blackbird special, doo rag, villified, ice cold daydream, little miss lover *
Set 2the moil, go go, sweetback, chicken pox, hamp's hump, all behind you now, thrill, action speaks louder than words, groove holmes, tiger roll
<b>encore:</b> whole lotta love, baker's dozen
Comment* (with a guy dressed up like gene simmons, full kiss attire)
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03/26/2003
Robert Randolph [and the Family Band]
27030
Set 1TEARS OF JOY
DEVIL IN DISGUISE -> PURPLE HAZE -> DEVIL IN DISGUISE -> PURPLE HAZE -> DEVIL IN DISGUISE.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
SHAKE YOUR HIPS
NOBODY
PROBLEMS
PRESS ON (REMIX)
JAIL BIRD ->
MORE LOVE
VOODOO CHILD
IDKWYCTD (REMIX) ->
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE MICE ELF ->
IRONMAN
Set 2Encore:
LOVE IS LIKE ROSES
ISN'T SHE LOVELY ->
WHY MUST I FEEL LONELY ->
PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE
CommentGreat LSU crowd but noticeably very loud throughout the show.
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02/13/2004
Cowboy Mouth
Set 1Jenny
Easy
It Shows
Uh Oh
Why Ya Wanna Do Me
New Orleans
Hurricane Party
Disconnected
Friends
Jill
Fire
Laughable
How
LA Lowdown
Mary Don't Two Step
Love of My Life
Peacemaker
Tell The Girl
Shotgun
Drummer Man
Won't Get Fooled Again
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08/20/2004
Drive-By Truckers
Set 1Tornadoes
The Boys From Alabama
Cottonseed
Buford Stick
Never Gonna Change
Sinkhole
Where The Devil Don't Stay
Give Pretty Soon
Your Daddy Hates Me
My Sweet Annette
Heathens
Plastic Flowers on the Highway
Careless
Daddy's Cup
Uncle Frank
Lookout Mountain
Danko/Manual
Outfit
Steve McQueen
Play It All Night Long
Zip City

encore:
I'm In Love With A Girl
Let There Be Rock
Buttholeville
People Who Dies
Putting People on the Moon
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02/22/2007
Phix
Set 1Buried Alive > Suzy Greenberg, Divided Sky, Fast Enough For You, Beauty of my Dreams, Train Song, My Friend My Friend, Slave to the Traffic Light, Vultures, Squirming Coil
Set 2The Curtain (with), Rift, Camel Walk, Brother, When The Circus Comes, Wolfman's Brother, Alumni Blues, The Sloth, David Bowie
E: NICU, Roses Are Free
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04/17/2007
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Set 1Somesing, Tokyo, From Now On, Jebez, Circus, Aimlessly
Set 2Bigs, Move My Peeps, Tooth, Equinox, The Rabble, Crystal Instrument, Rent
Enc:
Arigato
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02/17/2009
Citizen Cope
Set 1intro (Hello Dolly -Louis Armstrong)
All Dressed Up
Brother Lee
Friendly fire
Every Waking Moment
Bullet and a Target
Hurricane Waters
Penitentiary
Let the Drummer Kick
Salvation
If There's Love
D'artagnan's Theme
Son's Gonna Rise
Pablo Picasso
Holdin' On
Hands Of The Saints
Sideways
Back Together
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10/26/2011
Umphrey's McGee
Set 1Cemetery Walk, Intentions Clear > Alex's House, Tribute to the Spinal Shaft -> Walletsworth, Hourglass, Cemetery Walk II
Set 2JaJunk > "Jimmy Stewart"* > Andy's Last Beer, Women Wine and Song > I Ran, Mullet (Over), Higgins, The Fuzz > JaJunk
Encore
Soul Food I > Come Closer
Comment* - with lyrics
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