It’s funny how DBT’s shows at First Ave are starting to seem repetitive, what with the whiskey bottle and the non-stop pace through 2-1/2 hours and Patterson always saying how happy he is to be there (and no doubt he is). However, when it comes to the set lists, they’re constantly changing them. Even the songs here that they’ve done lots of times before, like “18 Wheels of Love” and “Road Cases,” were newly rekindled with the stories Patterson told beforehand.

To be honest, when they started up “18 Wheels” I was thinking I’d heard it enough, but then he added the sort of “Part II” or epilogue to the story about Chester’s death (his 350 lb. stepdad), and it nearly brought me to tears, it was just damn beautiful. The cover of Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died” is an all-too fitting finale after “Let There Be Rock” and (now) “18 Wheels” and all the other songs about death in the DBT canon.

Here’s the list:

 Puttin’ People on the Moon  /  3 Dimes Down  /  That Man I Shot  /  Self-Destructive Zones  /  The Company I Keep  /  Ghost to Most  /  I’m Sorry Huston  /  Road Cases  /  72 (This Highway’s Mean)  /  Righteous Path  /  Love Like This  /  The Living Bubba  /  Zip City  /  Ronnie & Neil  /  Hell No, I Ain’t Happy  /  Gravity’s Gone 

ENCORE: Women Without Whiskey  /  18 Wheels of Love  /  Marry Me  /  Home Field Advantage  /  Let There Be Rock  /  People Who Died

Seriously, I’d love to get a bootleg of this show from any of the folks who had the recording towers. Please email me, chrisr@startribune.com, I might have some things worth trading.

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