UPDATE: Watch Highlights from the The Complete Last Waltz ’18 at the Cap

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Update: Listen to the full show AUD thanks to Michael Buzzeo!

An absolutely monster line-up was announced for this year’s The Complete Last Waltz. The Last Waltz, was The Band’s farewell concert held on Thanksgiving Day in 1976 at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. The show has been recreated on a nearly annual basis since 2012.

The line-up this year reads more like the credits to a movie then a band line-up:

Joe Russo (Joe Russo’s Almost Dead), Kevin Morby, Scott Metzger (Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, WOLF!), Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee), Sam Cohen (Yellowbirds), Binky Griptite (The Dap-Kings), Jeff Chimenti (Dead & Company) and Nels Cline (Wilco), Marco Benevento, Craig Finn (The Hold Steady), Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Dave Dreiwitz (Ween, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead), Matt Vasquez (Delta Spirit), Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir’s Campfire Band), Alecia Chakour (Tedeschi Trucks Band), Stuart Bogie (Superhuman Happiness), Nicole Atkins, The Parkington Sisters, Jon Shaw, Kenny Siegal, Jordan McLean, Eric D. Johnson, Raymond Mason, Andy Cabic, Steve Marion, Martin Perna, Jocie Adams, John Alteri, Eric Slick, John Roderick and Matt Trowbridge. Wow.

Set 1
01 Last waltz theme
02 Cripple creek (Sam Cohen)
03 Shape I’m in (Chris Braun)
04 Life is a carnival (Craig Finn)
05 WS Walcott medicine show (Matt White)
06 Georgia on my mind (Alecia Chakour)
07 Ophelia (Scott Metzger)
08 Rag mama rag (Kyle Thomas)
09 King harvest (Delicate Steve/Alecia)
10 Mystery train (Matt Vasquez)
11 Who do you love (Matt Vasquez)
12 The night they drove old dixie down (Katie Crutchfield)
13 Stagefright (Matt Trowbridge)
14 Makes no difference (Leslie Mendelson)
15 Such a night (Marco Benevento)
16 Down south in New Orleans (Andy Cabic)
17 This wheels on fire (Kyle Thomas)
18 All our past times (Nels Cline)
19 Further on up the road (Nels Cline)
20 Four strong winds (Nicole Atkins)
21 Helpless (Nicole Atkins)
22 Coyote (Lola Kirk)
23 Shadows and light (Meg Duffy)
24 Dry your eyes (Roderick)
25 Mannish boy (Binky)
26 Caldonia (Binky)
27 Tura lura lura (Eric/Alecia)
28 Caravan (Eric Johnson)

Set 2
01 Genetic method (instrumental)
02 Chest fever (Chris Braun)
03 Evangeline (Parkington)
04 Acadian driftwood (Parkington)
05 The Weight (Joe, Scott, Sam, Binky)
06 Baby let me follow you down (Kevin Morby)
07 I don’t believe you (She acts like we never met-Kevin Morby)
08 Forever Young (Kevin Morby)
09 Baby let me follow you down (Kevin Morby)
10 I shall be released (Kevin Morby, et al)
11 Don’t do it (Alecia, et al)

Thanks to Michael Buzzeo for the recording!

Thanks to monihampton, we have plenty of footage from the star-studded tribute.

Lola Kirke – Coyote – The Complete Last Waltz