2013-07-26 Newport Folk Festival

Setlist

Recording, Partial video

• Love Love Love
• Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1
• Southwood Plantation Road
• Up The Wolves
• Animal Mask (live debut)
• Lions Teeth
• Woke Up New (JD and Peter duo)
• You Were Cool (JD solo)
• White Cedar
• Cry For Judas
• Cubs In Five
• The Mess Inside
• Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod
• This Year

Banter

• This is a song about a divorcing couple in Florida. And the things they do and the lovely things they see on their way to that blessed day when they sign the papers in their lawyer's office. (Southwood Plantation Road)
• I'll tell you, oh, I know this song! [tunes] Nah, I need that D chord to sound good for this one. [more tuning] This is a song when people talk about triumph over adversity, adversity sounds like a faceless sort of a thing, that you don't actually need to triumph over so much as get around. This is a song about triumph over the adversary. (Up the Wolves)
• In professional wrestling, there's a thing called a battle royale. Sometimes takes place in a cage, so that people won't escape from the battle royale, until they've been knocked right out of it. So, I used to go to the wrestling matches when I was a child. They were not the big money game it is now, it was like, people who needed to stretch their entertainment dollar as far as it could possibly go went to the wrestling matches. And so in a battle royal, allegiances form and dissolve rather quickly, because you're trying to survive and get rid of the people who are against you, and keep the people who are for you on your side, 'cause you're gonna see them later on down the line. And also in wrestling, there's a thing where people try to tear off the masks of people who are trying to hide their identity. This song is about a battle royale and it's also about the labor and delivery room. (Animal Mask)
• This song has a different sort of animal in it. [song] There's a great deal I might say, none of it particularly interesting, about a pronoun slip that happened in there, where the concluding line is "there's this great big you, and little old me", but I traded in the "you" for a "me" both times, right? So, and I thought, well, one method of dream interpretation is that all the evil villains and horrible people chasing you down in your dream, those are also you. I dunno if that has anything to say about this song, but it might. I'll get back to you on it. (Lions Teeth)
• We're breaking down the setlist, trying to figure out what to do, and I thougth that given time constraints and the fact that I tend to ramble on and on when I start talking, I should probably limit my standing up here by myself to one. So picking one is kinda fun, 'cause there are several, to pick from. So. This is one of them. It's for an old friend of mine, from Claremont, California. (You Were Cool)
• This is a song about getting out of hospitals, and going back into them, and getting back out of them, and going back into them. And so on. (White Cedar)
• Audience Baby [adorably but also loudly]: cubs in five!!! cubs in five!!!
  JD: You magnificent young person, we don't know that one as a group. [laughing]
  JD (off mic): Do we have time to [plus??] that? Alright, we'll try for Cubs in Five.
  JD: We haven't actually played this as a trio more than once or twice, so I can't make you any promises. If this one's going out on the broadcast, maybe you guys might wanna cut to a, ya know, 'you're listening to NPR' or something like that. Like, major funding for NPR is provided by...
  Audience Not-Baby: THE JOHN T AND CATHERINE C MACARTHUR FOUNDATION!!!!
  [laughing]
  JD: I wrote this song in 1995. The Cubs hadn't won a series then, and they still haven't done it. [the curator of this website lived in Chicago when the Cubs did in fact win in 2016, and did in fact blast this song a lot.]
  [song]
  JD: Thank you very much. Don't tell the others that the way to get your request played in a band that's two-thirds dads is to bring your child to the show. (Cubs In Five)