The Raconteurs played 3 NYC shows & 'Fallon' (pics, setlists, videos)
Following a run of four intimate NYC release shows the same weekend The Raconteurs released their first album in 11 years, Help Us Stranger, Jack White, Brendan Benson & co brought their tour back to NYC this past week for three larger shows: Hammerstein Ballroom on September 5 & 6 and Kings Theatre on September 7. They changed the setlists up a bit each night, and worked in some covers like The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and Albert King’s “Born Under A Bad Sign” on 9/6 and Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” on 9/7. For the 9/6 show, which The Raconteurs said on Instagram was a two-hour, ten-minute show (one of the longest of this tour so far), they also brought out Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to play with them on “Broken Boy Soldier.” We caught the 9/6 show, and Jack White seemed very happy on stage to be going past curfew (they ended just before 11:30). Pictures of the 9/6 show (including shots of opener Olivia Jean) are in the gallery above. Setlists for all three nights below.
While in NYC, The Raconteurs also stopped by Fallon for an interview and performance, and you can watch video of that below too.
The Raconteurs’ tour continues in Boston tonight (9/9), hits Chicago’s Riot Fest this weekend, and continues through late November. All remaining dates here.
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The Raconteurs at Hammerstein – 9/5/19 Setlist (via)
Bored and Razed
Level
Old Enough
Help Me Stranger
Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
Don’t Bother Me
Live a Lie
You Don’t Understand Me
Hands
Only Child
Broken Boy Soldier (Snippet of Gloria before final verse)
Top Yourself
Blue Veins
Encore:
Consoler of the Lonely
Sunday Driver
Now That You’re Gone
Carolina Drama
Steady, as She Goes
The Raconteurs at Hammerstein – 9/6/19 Setlist (via)
Consoler of the Lonely
Level
Old Enough
You Don’t Understand Me (Jack White on piano for first half of song, then switched to guitar for end solo)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Don’t Bother Me
Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
Top Yourself
Only Child
Broken Boy Soldier (with “Louie Louie” snippet)
Born Under a Bad Sign (Albert King cover)
Sunday Driver
Blue Veins
Encore:
Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) (Donovan cover)
Now That You’re Gone
Thoughts and Prayers
Salute Your Solution
Together
Help Me Stranger
Carolina Drama
Steady, as She Goes
The Raconteurs at Kings Theatre – 9/7/19 Setlist (via)
Salute Your Solution
Bored and Razed
Old Enough
Help Me Stranger
You Don’t Understand Me
Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover)
Top Yourself
What’s Yours Is Mine
Top Yourself (Resumes at the bridge)
Only Child
Don’t Bother Me
Hands
Broken Boy Soldier
Shine the Light on Me
Now That You’re Gone
Sunday Driver
Blue Veins
Encore:
Consoler of the Lonely
Level
Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
Carolina Drama
Steady, as She Goes
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photos by Ellen Qbertplaya
