01     Rocky Bill Ford And His Sunset Wranglers, Beer Drinking Blues- Texas Rose, LP
02     Webb Pierce and Red Sovine, Why Baby Why-Bear Family, CD
03     Tommy Duncan And His Western All Stars, Traveling On The Wrong Road Blues-Texas Rose, LP
04     Hank Thompson, The Tramp On The Street-Interstate, CD
- break 10:17 am
05     Bud Isaacs, Waltz of The Ozarks-Bear Family, CD
06     Jesse Rodgers And His Country Western Yodeling Boys, Yellow Rose Of Texas-Texas Rose, LP
07     Cal Hand, Ferns-Takoma, LP
08     $37.50- Richmond Fontaine- El Cortez, CD
- break 10:29 am
09     Buddy Merrill, Rolling Home-Mercury, LP
10     Drive-By Truckers, I'm Sorry Houston-New West, CD
11     Jim Reeves, I've Lived A Lot In My Time-RCA, LP
12     Patsy Cline, Walkin’ After Midnight-Empire Musicwerks, CD
13     Drive-By Truckers, Lisa's Birthday (rare)
- break 10:45 am
14     Jesse Colin Young, Four in the Morning-Capitol, LP
15     Bruce Springsteen, Songs For Orphans (rare)
16     Soulsavers, Through My Sails-Columbia, CD (thanks Mike)
- break 11:03 am
17     Neil Young, Beautiful Bluebird-Reprise, CD
18     Johnny Bond, What Will I Tell Old Paint-Cattle Records, LP
19     Bruce Springsteen, Wild Billy's Circus Story (rare)
- break 11:19 am
20     Ethel Smith, The Breeze And I-Decca Long Play, LP (DL 5016, Microgroove-Unbreakable)
21     Tommy Dorsey, The Breeze And I (with vocals) Bluebird, 78
22     The Vibrants, The Breeze and I (with seagulls) Romulan, LP
- break 11:32 am
23     Drive-By Truckers, You And Your Crystal Meth (rare)
24     Richmond Fontaine, $87 and a Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse the Longer I Go
         El Cortez, CD (family values edit)
- break 11:44 am
25     Drive-By Truckers, The Opening Act (for Doc, rare)
- break 11:58 am
26     Creedence Clearwater Revival, Wrote A Song For Everyone-Fantasy, LP
27     Johnny Cash, I Walk The Line (TV show live)
28     Calexico, Guero Canelo -City Slang, CD)
29     Hank Williams III, Meet Me Tonight In Atlantic City-Curb, CD
30     Outsideinside- Stripper's Lament-Man's Ruin, 45

+24 hour recovery time due to self-abuse at DBT. By now they are in Omaha and I am fumbling to make coffee and wrapping up the story. Details of the 2/23 show at the Fox Theatre... loud, long and a variety of music all the way back to 1990's Lookout Mountain. Space was at a premium and somehow I got to stage left, 5 feet from Neff's pedal steel setup. The view along the stage was great, but that close in the sound suffers. No worries, all these tunes are burnt into my mind. I concentrate on the visuals... guitar style, stance, expression. I got new inspiration from Women Without Whiskey (Southern Rock Opera-2001) and The Opening Act (Brighter Than Creation's Dark-2008). The audience was into the scene and as usual contained a scope of ages. The pressure of the beat and shoulder to shoulder people held me up till sometime past midnight-thirty the encore terminated and reality set in.

As best I can recall this is the set list:

1 Perfect Timing- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
2 A Ghost To Most- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3 Sink Hole- Decoration Day
4 Where The Devil Don't Stay- The Dirty South
5 You And Your Crystal Meth- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
6 Goode's Field Road- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
7 I'm Sorry Huston- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
8 Lisa's Birthday- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
9 ? (the Mellencamp story)
10 The Company I Keep- Pizza Deliverance
11 3 Dimes Down- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
12 Margo And Harold- Pizza Deliverance
13 Self Destructive Zones- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
14 Puttin' People On The Moon- The Dirty South
15 That Man I Shot- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
16 Lookout Mountain- The Dirty South
17 The Opening Act- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
18 Woman Without Whiskey- Southern Rock Opera
19 Let There Be Rock- Southern Rock Opera
20 Buttholeville-Gangstabilly
21 ? encore

Who knows how many more tours this band can take. I'll make any chance I get to see them.

Update of Route 78 West friends; Jesse Sykes, Seattle layover, no tour dates; Richmond Fontaine, Europe till May; Jason Molina, April in Italy; Jason Isbell, D.C. and touring the south; Oakley Hall, Knitting Factory, NY; Wilco, D.C. and the south; Steve Earle, Calvin Theatre, Northampton, MA; Black Angels, after SXSW the UK; Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams, Colorado dates through August; Neil Young, Italy; Calexico, layover, no dates; The Moe Greene Specials, Trix Club, Antwerpen; Black Mountain, NE thru Feb, then SXSW. Other concert info here.

See ya next week.