Joe Russo's Almost Dead 
05/05/2018 
Mardi Gras World Ballroom
New Orleans, LA 

** Night Two of Two ** SOLD OUT ~ THANK YOU! **

Source 1: Schoeps cmc621 (On Stage, Split 25') -> Avid SC-48 -> Zoom H6N -> WAV (@24/96);
Source 2: Schoeps cmc64 (FOH booth) -> ART Tube MP Studio Pre Amps -> Zoom H6N -> WAV (@24/96);
Source 3: SBD (Avid SC-48) -> Zoom H6N -> WAV (@24/96);

Transfer: WAVs -> SoundForge Pro 11.0 (EQ, Time Align, normalize) -> Vegas Pro 13.0 (mix/render) -> SoundForge Pro 11.0 (EQ, normalize, fades) -> CDWav -> FLAC

Costello & McRoberts Ultra Mix - Recording and FOH mix by Peter Costello - Monitors by Aaron Gittleman - Video by Sean Smith - Audio edited, mixed and mastered by Eric McRoberts 06/25/2018

	Set One (9:31PM - 10:52PM):
01.  Casey Jones >
02.  Let It Grow @ ->
03.  Jam # ->
04.  Bird Song $ -> 
05.  Greatest Story Ever Told >
06.  Dancing In The Streets >

	Set Two (11:28PM - 1:10AM):
01.  Foolish Heart % ->
02.  New Minglewood Blues ^ ->
03.  Jam ->
04.  China Cat Sunflower & ->
05.  Tell Me Mama ->
06.  Cumberland Blues Jam * -> Big River Jam I + -> Cumberland Blues -> Big River Jam II + -> Cumberland Blues -> Big River Refrain I + -> Cumberland Blues -> Big River Refrain + II -> Cumberland Blues Reprise @@
07.  Candyman ## >
08.  Music Never Stopped
	Encore:
09.  Going Down The Road Feeling Bad $$ %% ->
10.  Franklin's Tower $$

@ - With a “Ten Years Gone” (Led Zeppelin) Tease (Band) 
# - With elements of “My Favorite Things” (Rodgers and Hammerstein) and Teases of Let It Grow & Bird Song 
$ - With a Marco Solo & a Duo Jam
% - With China->Rider Transition Teases (MB & TH)
^ - With a Throwing Stones Tease (TH)
& - With a Let It Grow (I think) Tease (TH) 
* - With a Marco Solo, first time Cumberland has appeared as a Jam. Basically they started Cumberland, it morphed into a Marco Solo, which became a Big River Jam & then they sung the lyrics of Cumberland. 
+ - Partial Instrumental & Refrain versions of a Johnny Cash Cover, First time Played in this style () by Almost Dead
@@ Not Played By Almost Dead since 2017-10-06 Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY, a gap of 29 shows
## - With a “Revelry” (Traditional) Tease (SM)
$$ - With Nick Bockrath (Cage the Elephant) on guitar for both songs & vocals on GDTRFB 
%% - Without the traditional instrumental We Bid You Goodnight ending. It segued directly into Franklin’s

Pre Show Music: The Neville Brothers “Authorized Bootleg: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - February 27,1989” (In memory of my friend Charles Neville)
Set Break Music: Costello’s Early Rock And Roll Spotify Playlist 
https://open.spotify.com/…/1261675807/playlist/1s7J09ZtFcUI…
Post Show Music: Talking Heads - “Life During Wartime” & “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" 
Poster: New Antlers

Joe Russo - Drums, Vocals
Tom Hamilton - Guitar, Vocals
Scott Metzger - Guitar, Vocals
Marco Benevento - Keyboards, Vocals
Dave Dreiwitz - Bass

Show #151