Sweetwater Music Hall presents Green Leaf Rustlers, with Neal Casal & Ross James
19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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[8:35 PM lights down, band out with Ross James; Barry Sless at pedal steel guitar]

1. [8:38 PM] Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
2. [8:42 PM] Break My Mind
3. [8:49 PM] The Bottle Let Me Down
4. [8:56 PM] Miller's Cave
   [add Neal Casal through the end of the set]
5. [9:03 PM] Give Back the Key to My Heart >
6. [9:12 PM] Last Lonely Eagle
7. [8:18 PM] Dead Flowers
8. [9:24 PM] Johnny B. Goode
   [set ends 9:28 PM]

[10:04 PM lights down, band out with Ross James; Barry Sless back at pedal steel guitar]

1. [10:05 PM] Odds and Ends
2. [10:10 PM] White Line Fever
   [add Neal Casal]
3. [10:15 PM] Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
4. [10:23 PM] 100 Years >
5. [10:30 PM] Hickory Wind
   [drop Neal Casal]
6. [10:36 PM] Black Rose
7. [10:42 PM] Dynamite Woman
8. [10:48 PM] Rock Salt and Nails
   [Barry swaps to guitar for the rest of the night]
9. [10:53 PM] Bertha
   [set ends 11:00 PM]
   
   Encore
10. [11:02 PM] At the Crossroads
    [show ends 11:09 PM]

Green Leaf Rustlers

• Greg Loiacono: guitar, acoustic guitar, vox; – missing this week, since he's out on tour with Mother Hips
• John Molo: drums;
• Chris Robinson: guitar, vox;
• Pete Sears: bass;
• Barry Sless: guitar, pedal steel guitar.

• Neal Casal: guitar, harmony vox;
• Ross James: guitar, harmony vox.

Neal Casal played DJ for us, spinning tunes before the show and inbetween sets.

Tonight's show was sold out, but didn't seem all that crowded except at the start of the second set.

The setlist seemed tilted heavily in the direction of Texas-style country honk, what with the multiple tunes connected to Doug Sahm.

Johnny B. Goode was played at a blistering pace – good thing they took a break afterwards!

I thought it was curious that both sets opened with Dylan tunes. Odds and Ends, a Basement Tapes rarity, has the killer cryptic line, “Lost time is not found again.” Indeed, indeed. Eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds every day. Not one of them will ever be repeated.

Somehow managed to tweak my shoulder dancing last night. Crap-ola. Guess I need to practice being a stiff instead of swinging like a scarecrow in the breeze…

I'm thinking Don't Do It on the printed setlist was a band tease – a bit of plausible misdirection just to goof with us. Should have tried to ask one of the guys after the show, doh!

Betty Cantor-Jackson had everything wired up for capturing a multi-track recording of the proceedings. Hopefully the show will get released sooner or later!

In the meantime, nowiknowuryder posted a few front-row videos to YouTube:

• Dead Flowers
• Hickory Wind
• At the Crossroads

The drive home was extra annoying – what with this first batch of nice weather in awhile, CalTrans was going to town, with roadwork going on in a half-dozen locations. Delays and detours at midnight? Not really what I was looking to find at that point.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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