NiteRail's guitar player, Korey Hicks , is down with the flu. We had a gig October 23, and I found out the night before that he wouldn't be making it.
To say I was freaking out would be an understatement. The venue, Savoy's in Mankato, had been heavily promoting the show, and we did not want to let them down. Rather than find another guitar player, we decided to do the show as a four piece (harps/vocals, bass, drums, keyboards). With no time to rehearse, I tried my best to create a setlist that would let us get by without guitar.
The show ended up going extremely well. As a matter of fact, the new faces at the club didn't seem to notice that a guitar player was missing! I wouldn't want to do NiteRail shows without Korey on any sort of regular basis, but it felt good knowing the show could go on without him...and not sound like crap...lol.
Lenny at Savoy's was kind enough to let us play 45min sets rather than our typical 1hr+ sets. Below is the setlist we used...note all the blues...we also had our regular sub on the drums, and I wanted to keep things as straight forward as possible.
SET ONE
C - FEELIN' ALRIGHT
Bb - LEAVE IT ALONE
F – THE JOKER
A – BORN IN CHICAGO
E - CAROLINA BLUES
G – MESSIN w/ THE KID
B – ROCK ME BABY
A - CROSSROADS
TWO
G - APART
C - FEEL SO BAD
A - LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME
D - GOING DOWN
G - FURTHER ON UP ROAD
Bb – HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN
A – HOOK
E – SWEET HOME CHICAGO
THREE
F - GREEN ONIONS/HELP ME
G - RUNAROUND
E – COCAINE
G – MAGIC CARPET RIDE
F – MUSTANG SALLY
Bm - WHICH WAY TO CHOOSE
Ab - CROSSCUT SAW
EM - HEY JOE
AM - BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
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