You don’t need 32 songs to tell you it’s summer — the near 90 degree weather has already left no doubt. Such extremes also lead to thunderstorms, so there was a late afternoon downpour of a half dozen songs about seasonal precipitation — including four different ones titled “Summer Rain.”
Several seasoned musicians were celebrating birthdays, from Georgie Fame (80) and Reggie Workman (86), the only surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet, to Billy Davis Jr. (85), Chris Isaak (67) and Harriet Wheeler (60), she of The Sundays. Also played some Big Bill Broonzy (born this day in 1903) and Bill Monroe fiddler Kenny Baker (1926).
But most of the birthday section was given up to Mick Jones, with his work on The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite and projects by acts from Gorillaz to Avalanches. He was turning 68.
Here’s the link to the whole archived show; the setlist follows.