April 5, 2022 - Hot Springs, AR

We drove last night until Tupelo, slept for five hours, and drove down the street to the house where Elvis Presley was born. We drove into the Delta and stopped at the crossroads of old highways 61 and 49, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil circa 1930. There's a sinister buzz and a gripping energy about the place. We rode over the Mississippi River into Arkansas, traveled on to Hot Springs, and played our first set of the day at the RC Coffee and Collectibles, a large warehouse of a shop with a gazebo in the center where people listened to us play. We played a long-form set and talked with people before going down the road for our dinner hour set, which turned out to be one baby's first concert, whose parents picked up music and a button to remember the occasion. 

Here are the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil circa 1930.
Elvis Presley was born in this house on January 8, 1935.
The gazebo at RC Coffee and Collectible where we played our afternoon set.
The stage for the dinner courtyard at 420 Eats where we played our evening set.

Setlist for first set:
Baltimore Broommaker
To Have and to Hold
I'm Waiting for My Love to Sleep
The Castaway
The Eulogist
The Poor Clare Monastery
A House After a Hurricane
Sewn Hands
Showered in the Sunlight
Before Sunrise
Webbed
Dinner Date
Auburn Aumbry
The Human You Were
Post-Marks
You Write on My Face
Cobblestone
You're an Act That Can't be Followed
Pinhole Camera

Setlist for second set:
Baltimore Broommaker
The Castaway
The Poor Clare Monastery
A House After a Hurricane
Sewn Hands
Before Sunrise
Webbed
Dinner Date
Auburn Aumbry
Tied to Nowhere
Pinhole Camera
Paper Lanterns

Road music: Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Real Life Ghost Stories episode #82 “Robert Johnson,” Gil Scott-Heron “I’m New Here,” Johnny Cash









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