Fun show. Cooley opened with Birthday Boy and then Hood revealed it was Cooley's birthday. They brought a cake on stage and Hood and the crowd sang Happy Birthday and then Cooley blew out the candles. Also, I may not have heard correctly through the crowed noise and my ears melting from the rock sho...

I can't even....I don't have the words.....this was the show I needed after the week thus far. The shows started with a statement of intent....the mass shooting song, the NRA song, the post-Charleston song, and the Confederate flag song. We got Tom Petty covers, a new song about Charlottesville, and...

mikem wrote:What time will the Truckers hit the Stage??

If it's a 4:00 show with an opener, I'd guess 5:30ish? At least I hope so. Blue Oyster Cult is playing the House of Blues that night and I'd like to see the Truckers, then walk a mile to see BOC immediately afterward.

I've always thought the teenage girl in Chattanooga was the narrator's mother, and I've always pictured the narrator as a female. Come to think of it, the teenage girl could very well be the present-day narrator (old enough to drive and make a road trip to Atlanta), but my mind never connected it th...

I'm a sucker for Jason's slow waltzes. Including this one. Looks like I'm in the minority!

While I really like SMTF as a whole, this song was my least favorite. But damn if y'all haven't had a very interesting discussion about it.

They're more alike as songwriters than either of them are like Patterson. If you wee to call Patterson a master at exposition and detail, Cooley a master of phrase and color you would have to say Jason is able to do either, sometimes both in the same song but with a perspective all his own. I agree...

What's the general consensus (ha) on "Maybe these colors will fade"? What's fading? His drinking? Fame? Hurt? Blue with sadness Green with envy Red with rage Wow. I thought I responded with those three very colors earlier in the thread, but it turns out I never got around to addressing it. It's one...

Just thought of something....

So maybe they'll stop asking me
"What really happened? Where is your masterpiece?"

Four years after this song came out, Jason openly and honestly answered both of those questions in a big way.

I always thought the sunstroke line was more of a Casablance-esque "the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world" type of thing. There's all this drama and heartache about Jason & Shonna and Jason & DBT and the problems that result from those splits, but as...

I agree about the air conditioner line. It crushes me every single time. It's definitely near the very top of all the great lines he has ever written. Whether it was intentional or not in terms of how much of himself may have possibly seeped into the song, I too saw this song in a different light af...

Wikipedia doesn't note his name as anything other than Jason Looking up lyrics back in the day must be how I stumbled across it. Formal songwriting credits definitely list his first name as Michael. For example, I just did a quick google search and found that "Feb 14" is credited to "John Michael C...

Yup. For example, scroll to the bottom of the Codeine lyrics for the publishing info. "Written by Isbell, Michael Jason."

http://www.allmusic.com/song/codeine-mt ... 205/lyrics

Also, the part about "At 17 I went by Michael"-- that's his dad's name, I take that to mean that growing up in a family like that you've got the expectation of living up to your mom's/dad's name on you from the start, even if their name isn't your own. Damn tight spot to try to fit into. If I'm not...

Two corrections... 1. There you stood looking proud 2. At least you all got the joke off the bat Also, thank you for "makes the miles melt away." My ears kept hearing it as "makes their mouths melt away" even though I was absolutely certain that wasn't right. So you solved that for me. It makes perf...

After reading the comments of the various SWIMS.... What do the underwhelmed folks think of the songs? Are they good songs that get lost in presentation? My only reference point is 24 Frames, and I really liked the "rock" live version, and now I see where the studio version is much tamer by comparis...

Just confirmed via twitter....it's Mutineer.

It's gotta be Mutineer. A tribute to Dave's friend Warren Zevon and one of the greatest hours of television in Letterman's career.

gepman wrote: GDLL (always seem to get this or Never Gonna Change, but not both)

Guess we got lucky in Columbus on Tuesday. Not only did we get those two songs, but we got them back to back in the #5 and #6 slots. By far the earliest I had ever heard Never Gonna Change in the set.

Seeing Jason in Columbus tonight. I'm kinda nervous about the theater seating because most theaters were built over a century ago when the average man was like 5'8" tall or something. I'm 6'4" and sometimes it is literally impossible for me to fit my legs because of the proximity of the se...

I heard "Down in a Hole" at Chipotle once.

Even more significant than brucellosis is when Hood sings "gonna drink 'til I get my fill" instead of "to see if I can drink enough." Zevon's line is loaded on so many levels. It's perfect and Hood strangely chooses to neuter it. Ditto for "been acting strange" vs. &quo...

Heck, Jason and Amanda make a slight alteration to Mutineer. They leave the "us" off of "Lightning flashed and thunder followed us / It could never find us here." I guess this means Patterson, Jason, and Amanda don't like how Zevon writes songs and they clearly shouldn't be cover...

Patterson alters way more lyrics to Play It All Night Long than this country guy did to Dress Blues. And Patterson's are far more egregious than "godawful war" vs. "Hollywood war."

Zip City wrote:Yeah, he upgraded from Scully's (a bar) to The Southern Theatre (a multi-hundred seated venue) here in Columbus.

I fully expect him to play Red Rocks within the next 2 years

And Skully's was a huge step up from scant crowds at Rumba Cafe and The Basement.

The Southern Theater seats 925.

I listened to the whole stream on long drive yesterday. Holy cow does it sound amazing. Thanks to everyone involved with doing such great work on it.

all of keep on smilin' was on the original stream. Thanks! I went to the full show mp3 and was able to grab the full version of Keep on Smiling. The full show mp3 is missing parts of Cartoon Gold and Alabama Pines, though. Anyone know of another source that has full versions of those songs? The sou...

all of keep on smilin' was on the original stream. Thanks! I went to the full show mp3 and was able to grab the full version of Keep on Smiling. The full show mp3 is missing parts of Cartoon Gold and Alabama Pines, though. Anyone know of another source that has full versions of those songs? The sou...

MP3. Hope a CD quality gets released m I took this and Tracked out all the songs. 1st track is Tornadoes m This sounds great! Thank you for doing this! FYI-- Keep on Smiling is only part of the song. It cuts off just as Jason is coming in. Not sure if that's because the original source recording is...

Wow...ain't been around these parts in awhile. How ya'll doing? Zip texted me last night and asked if I had this. Fortunately for some odd reason I kept a little journal in 2008 with setlists from concerts. I have never done that for any other year. Usually I just throw whatever paper I wrote it do...