Colorado-based jammers String Cheese Incident played their first show of 2011 last night at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, CO as part of the group’s Winter Carnival. SCI bassist Keith Moseley mentioned that the band would dust off a number of tunes they hadn’t performed since going on hiatus in 2007 in an interview with HT earlier this month and String Cheese lived up to Moseley’s word by including the previously shelved Suntan, Cottonmouth, Big Shoes and Ramble On in the setlist.
[All photos by Brian Spady]
The first set finished with the SCI debut of the Colorado Bluebird Sky, a song written by Bill Nershi and his wife Jillian about an east coaster seeing Colorado for the first time. For the start of the second set, SCI offered a version of BAM! that featured a cover of Cee Lo Green’s Fuck You in the middle. Also of note, String Cheese’s encore featured the Chuck Berry tune Tore Up Over You done in a similar style to the Jerry Garcia Band.
Set 1: Smile, Birdland > Wheel Hoss > Birdland, Sometimes a River, Black and White, Suntan, Don’t Say > Water, Colorado Bluebird Sky
Set 2: BAM! > Fuck You > BAM!, Betray the Dark, Rivertrance, Cottonmouth, Piece of Mine, Sweet Melinda, Big Shoes > Ramble On
Encore: Barstool, Tore Up Over You
[via Friends of Cheese]
J.D. Crowe and the New South open tonight’s show in Broomfield.
[Thanks to Jambands.com for some info included in this report]
READ ON for more of Brian’s amazing photos from Night One of String Cheese Incident’s Winter Carnival 2011 at the 1st Bank Center…
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