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Setlist at The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA on Jul 17, 2001
Set One
Let’s Shake Hands
106
When I Hear My Name
110
The Big Three Killed My Baby
155
Jolene
221
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
193
Hotel Yorba
120
I Think I Smell a Rat
122
Little Room
55
The Union Forever
251
We're Going To Be Friends
135
Expecting
114
Aluminum
43
Baby Blue
174
Cool Drink of Water Blues
79
Astro
110
Farmer John
49
Your Southern Can Is Mine
94
Broken Bricks
189
Screwdriver
199
You're Pretty Good Looking
98
Boll Weevil
174
Encore
Hello Operator
127
St. James Infirmary Blues
101
Look Me Over Closely
227
The Troubadour
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 17, 2001
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Setlist at The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA on Jul 17, 2001
Set One
Let’s Shake Hands
106
When I Hear My Name
110
The Big Three Killed My Baby
155
Jolene
221
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
193
Hotel Yorba
120
I Think I Smell a Rat
122
Little Room
55
The Union Forever
251
We're Going To Be Friends
135
Expecting
114
Aluminum
43
Baby Blue
174
Cool Drink of Water Blues
79
Astro
110
Farmer John
49
Your Southern Can Is Mine
94
Broken Bricks
189
Screwdriver
199
You're Pretty Good Looking
98
Boll Weevil
174
Encore
Hello Operator
127
St. James Infirmary Blues
101
Look Me Over Closely
227
Show Notes
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Enjoy this show recap from Third Man Record's Own, Ben Blackwell:
It'd be delusional for anyone to argue that the White Stripes gig at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on July 17th of 2001 was the primary focus for the band that day. Of far more intrigue and excitement was their mid-afternoon recording of a live performance at CBS Studios for the evening broadcast of The Late Show With Craig Kilborn.
So once THAT had commenced and the Troubadour confirmed that they could pull up CBS on the television behind the bar...the rest of the day is just a bonus.
Listening back twenty years later, I have to say that the show feels unmoored without a slide blues interlude of "Death Letter" anchoring it all. I know the band didn't play "Death Letter" at EVERY show, but damn, at this point in the career, it seems like it was all but a given.
So what a delight it is for off-the-cuff covers like Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water Blues" and Gene Vincent's "Baby Blue" and "Farmer John" by Don and Dewey all to sit comfortably among the standards of the era like "Dead Leaves" and "Little Room" and "The Union Forever." The accent-based "St. James Infirmary" is always a treat and anytime any song comes after "Boll Weevil" I consider that extra special.
The celebratory feeling of seeing Jack and Meg bash out "Screwdriver" and "Your Southern Can Is Mine" on Kilborn on the modest screen behind the storied downstairs bar was probably the last moment where I most truly thought "there's no getting bigger than this" for the White Stripes. And the fact that we're here, now, twenty years later still talking about and sharing these recollections is all the proof I need that the White Stripes are amazingly still relevant and, in many ways, still getting bigger.
