Last night I traveled to Brooklyn with TeamSweeting to see Deer Tick play in a cramped and tiny room for over two hours. The show took place in theory to “raise awareness of the unnecessary and unjut police brutality on the part of the NYPD against the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ peaceful protesters this weekend.”
What the show did raise awareness about is the fact that John Mccauley is a sort of stumbling American Songbook, leading the band through fifteen some-odd largely unrehearsed and sometimes never before played covers in their twenty-five plus song set. The band also played a healthy number of their most well known songs and previewed several tracks off their forthcoming record Divine Providence, which should be a winner. There are full show reports at Brooklyn Vegan and Rolling Stone.
Anyways, I compiled as many of the songs covered last night as I could remember (feel free to let me know any I forgot), and made a little mix for you all. Hank Williams and The Replacements lead the way with two selections each, there’s Nirvana, there’s Buddy Holly, and there’s a song by a band named The Shivers that might make you cry.
You can download the Deer Tick-inspired mix by clicking on this link.
This tracklisting is my best attempt to recreate the order in which the songs were played last night:
1. Move It On Over-Hank Williams
2.Dead Flowers-Rolling Stones
3.I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive- Hank Williams
4.Be Kind To Me-Michael Hurley
5.Oh Boy-Buddy Holly
6.Bastard of Young-The Replacements
7.Maybellene-Chuck Berry
8.Cocaine Blues-Townes Van Zandt
9.Juke Box Hero-Foreigner
10.One After 909-The Beatles
11.On a Plain-Nirvana
12.Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You-Bob Dylan
13.L.I.E.-The Shivers
14.Can’t Hardly Wait-The Replacements
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