Blessed Are The Geek

Here’s the setlist we heard Saturday night. DBT played for over two and a half hours. It was great. I probably lost some hearing, but it was worth it.

• The Buford Stick
• Where the Devil Don’t Stay
• The Southern Thing
• Gravity’s Gone
• Sinkhole
• Uncle Frank
• Buttholeville (interlude of State Trooper)
• 72 (This Highway’s Mean)
• My Sweet Annette
• Women Without Whiskey
• The Living Bubba
• Cartoon Gold
• Box of Spiders
• Three Dimes Down
• Puttin People on the Moon

Encore

• The Weight w/Megafaun
• Get Downtown
• Let There Be Rock
• Zip City
• Hell No I Ain’t Happy
• Shut Up and Get on the Plane
• Angels and Fuselage

So, here’s my wishlist again. The songs they played are crossed off. Almost everything that was on my initial list that I cut was played. Every song was freakin’ amazing. It was a hell of a show.

1. 18 Wheels of Love
2. Space City
3. The Living Bubba
4. Birthday Boy
5. Let There Be Rock
6. Uncle Frank
7. Zip City
8. The Southern Thing
9. Tornadoes
10. Three Dimes Down
11. Life in the Factory

So, tomorrow night I am finally getting to see my favorite band The Drive-By Truckersin concert. I’ve been waiting 7 years for this. I’ve been listening to all the DBT albums on repeat since I bought my tickets last month. That’s ten albums and nearly 200 songs so, obviously, they won’t be playing anywhere near everything. I was trying to think of the songs I would most want to hear them play. Some of my favorites were Jason Isbell songs. Since he’s no longer with the band, those are out (but I did get to hear some of those songs at the Isbell concert I went to in March). Ditto Shonna Tucker songs. That leaves Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley songs (the band’s line-up has changed many times but it will still be DBT as long as these two guys are part of it). So, here’s the list of songs I most want to hear performed live. But there’s no DBT song I hate so it’ll all be good, and it’s sure to be a hell of a show. I tried to make this a top ten list. When I first started listing songs, I had 20. I narrowed it down to these. It’s heavy on the Cooley, but those are usually my favorite on every album.

1. 18 Wheels of Love
2. Space City
3. The Living Bubba
4. Birthday Boy
5. Let There Be Rock
6. Uncle Frank
7. Zip City
8. The Southern Thing
9. Tornadoes
10. Three Dimes Down
11. Life in the Factory

This week is Spring Break.

Over Thanksgiving Break, my “enter” key quit working.

That was six months ago.

You may have noticed that I have had no paragraph breaks in any posts since then.

Except for a few posts I did from my Kindle.

While visiting a friend for the past two days, I finally made it to an Apple store and got my computer fixed.

So check out these beautiful paragraph breaks.

I can quit writing some stuff I’ve been working on out by hand and go back to typing like a human being.

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