Priestess
Miss mabee
Asphodel
Dogie
Home at last (Cass on acoustic, Sasha Vine accompanying on violin)
Missionary Bell (Cass on acoustic)
Peace (Cass on acoustic)
Juvenile (Cass on keys)
Trains (Cass on keys)
Dawn (Cass on keys, Sasha Vine on violin and Meg Duffy on Stratocaster accompanying)
Big wheel
Nature
Opium flower
Comedian
Bum bum bum
Dream girl
Sleeping volcanoes
Encore:
County line
Bobby
Setlist courtesy of me, via Paddy Dale, who got one for both of us! This one was Bones’s. Paddy got Betancourt’s.
It was so nice to be back at the Troubadour - I don’t think I had been there since I was in high school! It’s such a small venue, and well kept, with character and a nice balcony.
Bones again busted a string during this set, but he took Cass’s Telecaster to play while Meg swooped in to take restring Bones’s Gibson SG. I guess Cass was on keys or acoustic when this happened — details tba!
I sat in the front row of the balcony and the band sounded AWESOME up there. I kept seeing Paddy down in the front having a ball and while part of me wanted to be down there, it just sounded too good and was too chill in the balcony to descend. I hope they knew I was still there. Every time Cass played an oldie, Paddy turned around and gestured to me and I gestured back. I almost felt like Cass was playing Nature FOR Paddy, since he had yelled it out the night before. I remember Nature from the 2019 tour, where I think CM played it at Seattle if not elsewhere, and I probably wrote about it on this blog — how he could hit those high notes so well all these years after A first came out.
Almost every tune people yelled out the night before, Cass played this night - Nature, Comedian, Dreams come true girl. What am I going to yell out next time? Name Writ in Water? Better cheat death than fool love? Wheel of Fortune?
We walked back to our rental dancing the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, buzzing with the electricity of the show but also feeling that familiar comedown… What do you do when the four nights you can finagle away from work come to an end? Make a life worth writing a song about…