The recent Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA served as a sincere and emotional celebration of the recently departed Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman, both in name and in spirit. In addition to the festival’s usual Allman Brothers Band aesthetic, the event hosted several Allman-oriented sets, including the collaboration-heavy last-ever performance from Trucks’ Les Brers and the festival’s All-Star Tribute to Gregg and Butch featuring Chuck Leavell, Jaimoe, Oteil Burbridge, Marc Quinones, Warren Haynes, and a huge cast of extended Allmans family members.
But while the jam-centered festival surely tilted more toward Macon and the Brothers, it also featured a compulsory nod to Marin and the Dead in the form of two Thursday sets by Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Below you can relive the two-set performance in all its glory thanks to taper Bill:
SETLIST: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead | The Peach Music Festival (Show #116) | Montage Mountain | Scranton, PA | 8/10/17
Set One (8:32PM – 9:47PM):
Alligator @ ->
Scarlet Begonias >
Feel Like A Stranger
King Solomon’s ->
The Eleven ->
Keeping It Simple # >
Fire On The Mountain
Set Two (10:23PM – 11:53PM):
Jam ->
Let It Grow ->
Girlfriend Is Better Jam $ ->
Let It Grow Reprise ->
Jack Straw >
Dancing In The Streets % ->
Franklin’s Tower ^ >
Morning Dew &
ENC:
Samson & Delilah
@ – Unfinished, with a Mr Charley Jam
# – Partial Version, 2nd half of the song, from the instrumental break in 11 to the end
$ – Instrumental, incomplete version of a Talking Heads Cover (No lyrics were sung. May not get tracked, depending on length)
% – With a DD solo in the intro & a Duo Jam that referenced / hinted at “Bubblehouse” (Medeski Martin & Wood)
^ – Contained numerous Slipknot! teases & jams
& – With “Thank You” (Led Zeppelin) Teases (MB)
[Cover photo via Phierce Photo by Keith G.; Instagram: @PhiercePhoto]