Mike Gordon, Friday, 03/18/2011
Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
Set 1: Horizon Line, Jaded > Funky Bitch > Suskind Hotel > Heavy Metal[1] > Funky Bitch, Got Away, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry[2], Can’t Stand Still
Set 2: Radar Blip, I’m Deranged, Spiral, Soulfood Man, Flashback > Meat > Jones > Hap-Nappy, I Miss My Mind, Voices
Encore: Idea
[1] Debut.
[2] Mike Gordon debut, one verse only.
Notes: This gig featured the debut of the Craig Myers-penned “Heavy Metal” and the Mike Gordon debut of Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”
Mike Gordon, Saturday, 03/19/2011
Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA
Set 1: Another Door, The Void -> Heavy Metal -> Fixin’ to Die[1] > The Void > Rhymes, Exit Wound, She Said She Said, Be Good and You’ll Be Lonely, Cities
Set 2: Balloon, Only A Dream -> God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, Just a Rose > Pretend, Nobody’s Home, The Beltless Buckler, Traveled Too Far, Mound
Encore: Down To the Nightclub
[1] Col. Bruce Hampton on vocals.
Notes: After “Another Door” Tom Cleary performed a mini “song” on the Kaossilator that he had written backstage before the show about that evening’s Supermoon. Mike introduced “The Void” as a “song about the feeling the first person that ever walked on the moon had when he took that first… step.” Atlanta-fixture Col. Bruce Hampton provided vocals for “Fixin’ to Die.”
Mike Gordon, Sunday, 03/20/2011
The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
Set 1: Morphing Again, What Things Seem, 15 Step, The Grid > Makisupa Policeman, Fire From a Stick, I Miss My Mind, River Niger, Flashback, Babylon Baby
Set 2: Andelmans’ Yard, Easy To Slip > The Field, Access Me, Time (The Revelator), Spiral, No One Receiving > Weekly Time > Suskind Hotel
Encore: Mound