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August 21, 2003 - Ram's Head - Annapolis, MD

SETLIST

45 Miles
Class of '85
Vinyl Records
Statistician's Blues
Can't Complain
[Skip story]
Desperados Waiting on a Train [Guy Clark]
Better Than Ever Blues, Part 2
[Kingsmen story]
Ballad of the Kingsmen
Tension > Three Little Birds [Bob Marley]
[Aaron Allen story]
Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern
Betty Was Black (Willie Was White)
D.B. Cooper
Keep Off the Grass
Beer Run
Easy Money > It's Only Rock 'n' Roll [Rolling Stones]
Anywhere
Horseshoe Lake > Alright Guy
[15 minutes story]
Sideshow Blues

Encore:
Georgia on a Fast Train [Billy Joe Shaver]
No Expectations [Rolling Stones]
Folsom Prison Blues [Johnny Cash]
Ride Me Down Easy [Billy Joe Shaver]
Play a Train Song

AUDIO

SOURCE: SBD
QUALITY: A-
COMPLETE: YES
LENGTH: 99:06
TAPER:
NOTES: Each disc recorded as one solid track.

NOTES

A terrific tribute to Skip through an encore full of train songs.

VARIATIONS

On Tension:

• "People are still into drugs. Seems like a few of you might have been into them a little earlier."
• "Queers getting married. That'll ruin my wife and I's marriage."

• "He ain't no fool, boy, he fucked up the words and he knows that trying to memorize them all's for the birds. If he ever fucks this one up again..."

• "It's so hard to kick the door down when you ain't wearin' no shoes."