Joe Russo’s Almost Dead made the second stop of their winter tour in St. Louis last night. JRAD performed their first of two shows at The Pageant in the midst of a winter storm.

While it may have been cold outside, it was blazing inside in The Pageant. JRAD dropped nearly three hours of good ol’ fashioned Grateful Dead and other covers on the St. Louis fans. Tom Hamilton eased the crowd into a 18-minute rendition of Jerry Garcia Band’s “Cats Under the Stars” to kick off the first set.

JRAD tucked in plenty of goodies into the two sets including a cover of Bob Weir’s “Gonesville” from his newest record, a rare second set “Jack Straw” and the rare “Never Been to Spain” cover to cap the night off.

Set One (8:08PM – 9:43PM)
Jam ->
Cats Under The Stars ->
Gonesville ->
Cumberland Blues @ >
Viola Lee Blues 
Crazy Fingers >
Let It Grow #

Set Two (10:12PM – 11:38PM)
Althea
I Need A Miracle >
Ramble On Rose $
Jack Straw % ->
Estimated Prophet >
Tennessee Jed ^

ENC: Never Been To Spain

@ – With a Black Throated Wind Tease (SM) and a Cats Under The Stars Tease (TH)
# – With a Duo Jam
$ – With a I Need A Miracle Tease (TH) 
% – With a Black Throated Wind Tease (MB)
^ – With a Black Throated Wind Tease (SM), a “Take The A Train” (Duke Ellington) Jam (MB) and a Marco Solo

Thanks to Chris King for the recording.

Photo credit: paddyisraddy