Zee Avi, Marshall Crenshaw

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Listen to the Zee Avi set here.

Listen to Marshall Crenshaw's set here.

Setlists:

Zee Avi
1. Poppy
2. Traveler
3. Honey Bee
4. First of the Gang
5. Bitter Heart

Marshall Crenshaw
1. Fantastic Planet of Love
2. Live & Learn
3. Someone Told Me
4. There She Goes Again
5. Someday Someway
6. Stormy River
7. Passing Through
8. Right On Time
9. Never Coming Down

Jessica Lea Mayfield

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, The Revelations

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Rhett Miller, The Avett Brothers, Pete Yorn

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Listen to the Rhett Miller set here.

Listen to the Avett Brothers set here.

Listen to the Pete Yorn set here.

Setlists:

Rhett Miller
1. Dance With Me
2. If It's Not Love
3. Question
4. Caroline
5. Rollerskate Skinny
6. Sometimes
7. Come Around
8. I Need To Know Where I Stand
9. Timebomb

Avett Brothers
1. Laundry Room
2. Paranoia in B-Flat Major
3. I and Love and You
4. Kick Drum Heart
5. Murder in the City
6. The Perfect Space
7. Bella Donna
8. St. Joseph's

Pete Yorn
1. For Nancy
2. Life on a Chain
3. Shotgun
4. Last Summer
5. The Man
6. For Us
7. Bizarre Love Triangle
8. On Your Side
9. Don't Wanna Cry
10. Strange Condition

The Derek Trucks Band

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Setlist:
1. I Know
2. Done Got Over
3. Down In The Flood
4. Already Free
5. Get What You Deserve
6. Get Out My Life

Hill Country Revue, Cracker

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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Listen to Hill Country Revue's set here.

Listen to Cracker's set here.

Setlists:

Hill Country Revue
1. Alice Mae
2. Hill Country Revue
3. Georgia Women
4. You Can Make It
5. Growing Up In Mississippi

Cracker
1. Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me
2. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
3. Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is)
4. Friends
5. I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right
6. Happy Birthday
7. Gimme One More Chance

Wes & Euguene's Cabinet of Wonders

Thunderbird Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA

The "Wes" in "Wes and Eugene's Cabinet of Wonders" is John Wesley Harding, touring with his stand-up comedian friend Eugene Mirman in an ad hoc cabaret, with local/regional musicians, comedians, and poets invited to each stop of the festivities.

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JWH began with a poem about the Cabinet (or the "Mini-Cabinet," as he dubbed the club-sized version of the show instead of their usual theater setting), and then he brought the ensemble up on stage and introduced them each in tongue-in-cheek verse. This version of the show included PGH-based poet Terrance Hayes, Chicago singer/songwriter Chris Mills, Rusted Root frontman Michael Glabicki, Philly singer Megan Reilly, PGH garage rockers The Cynics as an acoustic duo.

JWH started off the show with a brief solo set, including the terrific "Top of the Bottom," a track off his latest album (Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead). Then he began mixing it up, introducing and sometimes performing with the evening's ensemble.

Highlights included an incredible cover of Neil Young's "Powderfinger" by JWH and Glabicki, Glabicki's own two-song solo performance, and Mirman's comedy set.

Betsy and I were lucky to have my parents visiting to babysit, especially as were able to say hi to various members of the cast (as well as Paul Collins, of The Beat fame, who was in attendance as an audience member) and spend a rather long time chatting with that very generous conversationalist Wes himself.