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imported_Ordinary_Man · 09-30-2008, 01:56 AM

Cotton Jenny
Carefree Highway
Sea of Tranquility
14 Karat Gold
Never Too Close
Let it Ride
A Painter Passing Through
Shadows
In My Fashion
Beautiful
The Watchman's Gone
Ribbon of Darkness
Sundown
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

intermission

Triangle
Hangdog Hotel Room
Restless Feeling
Minstrel of the Dawn
If Children Had Wings
Don Quixote
If You Could Read My Mind
Baby Step Back
Early Morning Rain
Blackberry Wine

Song for A Winter's Night (encore)

I finally got to hear If Children Had Wings which he didn't play in Peoria earlier this year. And I found out that he changed the second verse slightly and tho he joked about "his FIRST ex-wife", he sang very tenderly "I love her still". (And if I am not greatly mistaken, I believe she passed away within the last year or so?) I like this new version much better than the original with the steel guitar etc. and hope he will re-record it sometime.

Some random memories (I was lucky to get the setlist, this was the darkest I've ever had to write em down, so didn't bother to try to record the patter and adlibs.) :

"I get a lot of requests for this next song, I don't know why, I just don't know WHY it's so popular....": then the opening major7th chords to "Beautiful" amidst much applause.

Told the brother-in-law story about the origins of Baby Step Back...."EX-brother-in-law, one of my MANY ex-brother-in-laws"

Before "Let It Ride", turned to Mike Heffernan and asked if he thought they could do it...said something like they only do it about once in 50 shows or so....I've heard it several times so I think he's exaggerating somewhat....they got through it fine....

A tale I'd never heard him tell before....told of someone who used to (believe it or not) surf the St. Marys River....when he asked how that was possible, he was told "we used to surf the wake of the Fitzgerald...."; Gord tried to explain just how big it was, said it barely fit in the Soo Locks.

As he has done in the past to introduce "Hangdog Hotel Room", he mentioned a whole bunch of his contemporaries that apparently knew how to party....Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstat, Jerry (Jeff Walker), can't remember em all....Mentioned Kris Kristofferson asleep in his car behind The Troubador....when he was supposed to be onstage!

Mentioned Peter, Paul and Mary, Dylan and Elvis when setting up Early Morning Rain....

That's about all I can come up with....had a great time, a very beautiful theater, Gord's voice got better as the show went on which seems to be the norm. I will see him in St. Louis on Wednesday night and front row center Friday night in Kansas City.

Steve

09-30-2008, 01:56 AM	#1
imported_Ordinary_Man Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Biscuit City Posts: 134	Set list for Joliet IL Sept. 28, 2008 Cotton Jenny Carefree Highway Sea of Tranquility 14 Karat Gold Never Too Close Let it Ride A Painter Passing Through Shadows In My Fashion Beautiful The Watchman's Gone Ribbon of Darkness Sundown The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald intermission Triangle Hangdog Hotel Room Restless Feeling Minstrel of the Dawn If Children Had Wings Don Quixote If You Could Read My Mind Baby Step Back Early Morning Rain Blackberry Wine Song for A Winter's Night (encore) I finally got to hear If Children Had Wings which he didn't play in Peoria earlier this year. And I found out that he changed the second verse slightly and tho he joked about "his FIRST ex-wife", he sang very tenderly "I love her still". (And if I am not greatly mistaken, I believe she passed away within the last year or so?) I like this new version much better than the original with the steel guitar etc. and hope he will re-record it sometime. Some random memories (I was lucky to get the setlist, this was the darkest I've ever had to write em down, so didn't bother to try to record the patter and adlibs.) : "I get a lot of requests for this next song, I don't know why, I just don't know WHY it's so popular....": then the opening major7th chords to "Beautiful" amidst much applause. Told the brother-in-law story about the origins of Baby Step Back...."EX-brother-in-law, one of my MANY ex-brother-in-laws" Before "Let It Ride", turned to Mike Heffernan and asked if he thought they could do it...said something like they only do it about once in 50 shows or so....I've heard it several times so I think he's exaggerating somewhat....they got through it fine.... A tale I'd never heard him tell before....told of someone who used to (believe it or not) surf the St. Marys River....when he asked how that was possible, he was told "we used to surf the wake of the Fitzgerald...."; Gord tried to explain just how big it was, said it barely fit in the Soo Locks. As he has done in the past to introduce "Hangdog Hotel Room", he mentioned a whole bunch of his contemporaries that apparently knew how to party....Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstat, Jerry (Jeff Walker), can't remember em all....Mentioned Kris Kristofferson asleep in his car behind The Troubador....when he was supposed to be onstage! Mentioned Peter, Paul and Mary, Dylan and Elvis when setting up Early Morning Rain.... That's about all I can come up with....had a great time, a very beautiful theater, Gord's voice got better as the show went on which seems to be the norm. I will see him in St. Louis on Wednesday night and front row center Friday night in Kansas City. Steve Last edited by imported_Ordinary_Man; 09-30-2008 at 11:35 PM.