Poster

Setlist

What The People Want

The Asp And The Albatross

Cheap Watch

Bolshevik And Bollweevil

Binding Twine

Velveteen Matador

Number One With A Bullet

Skinny Knee Bone

Falls Of Sleep

Gone to Stay

Good for Nothing

Cloak of Frogs

Hero/Heroine

— Encore —

Take Me With You

Waitress Song

My Old Drunk Friend

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Freakwater

Louisville’s Freakwater will be in town at the Cedar Cultural Center this March 16th, touring in support of their Bloodshot Records debut record, Scheherazade… their first album in ten years!
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Young Widows

Steve Sindoni left Louisville, KY’s Breather Resist in 2005. Despite the loss of their singer, Breather Resist went on with Evan Patterson, their guitarist, taking the mic, and they changed their name to Young Widows. Well, Young Widows do still
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Louisville’s Freakwater recently headlined the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on March 16th. The band is touring in support of their album Scheherazade (Bloodshot Records) – their first album in 10 years.

Jaye Jayle with Freakwater’s fiddler Anna

Jaye Jayle started the evening off. Jaye Jayle is the solo project of singer/songwriter Young Widows’ Evan Patterson. We previously caught Young Widows in 2014 and described the band as sounding “metal/hardcore”. Jaye Jayle, on the other hand, is a bit on the softer/gentler side with a touch of country music in their songs.

Songs on Jaye Jayle’s 35-min set included almost the entire House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out (which came out in February 2016). Highlight of their set was their closing track “Sugar Ran Wild”, which featured Freakwater’s fiddler Anna singing backup.

After a ten-year absent from touring, Freakwater is back on the long touring road across America in support of their latest Scheherazade. The Minneapolis show was one of three final shows (their last show will be at the Hideout in Chicago tonight), and there’s almost a sigh of relief from the entire band. They’ve been basically living out of random hotels, Uhaul trucks… and they can’t wait to get back home and get some much-needed rest.

All the road stories were told by their two harmonizing vocalists Janet Bean and Catherin Irwin, who had a lot to say. Everything they’ve “learned” on tour, included get other foods instead of just eating banana nut cakes (that was the only food they had in the car) to the fact that Barney Franks was actually not Bernie Sanders.

Despite the weariness, they were still having a lot of fun doing the tour… and it shows when they reconnected with their fans.

Freakwater’s Setlist

Catherin Irwin confessed that she did not have a setlist, because after 38 shows, people kept taking it. That’s fine, she had the set committed to memory, and there wasn’t a moment when they played the wrong song.

“Good for Nothing” was the band’s biggest hit (according to the massive cheer from the audience) of the night. The song was the lead track from their 1999 album End Time.

After a brief lights turning off during their set finale “Hero/Heroine”, the band went backstage and came back for the encore. Initially only Janet and Catherin and their guitarist came back for “Take Me With You”, a song about coal mining. For the final two songs, they fulfilled a fan’s request for “Waitress Song”, followed by an old 1995 song “My Old Drunk Friend” (from Feels Like the Third Time).

Freakwater’s last Scheherazade will take place tonight at the Hideout in Chicago.