Photo by Greg Cristman
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Drive-By Truckers & The Hold Steady played the Stone Pony & The Paramount (pics, setlist & video from The Paramount)

photos by Greg Cristman

Drive by Truckers / The Hold Steady @ The Paramount, 6/28/2014
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“Throughout the evening, there was a striking contrast between frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Hood, who often leaped into the air mid-song, overflowed with emotion as he performed signature tunes like “Box of Spiders” and “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy.” On the opposite end of the stage, straight man Mike Cooley was a study in detached cool. From the moment he strapped on his black Flying V and launched into the hard bitten lyrics of “Birthday Boy,” Cooley’s mellow, sardonic attitude oozed from every pore.” – [Elmore Magazine]

The separate, ongoing tours of Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady converged with two shows in the NY area, first at Asbury Park, NJ’s Stone Pony (6/27) then Long Island’s The Paramount Theatre (6/28). Both bands have been touring in support of new albums, and they each played sets that highlighted the new stuff while also drawing from much of their enviably vast back-catalogues of material. The two modern rock’n’roll institutions even joined forces for an encore at The Paramount, where they covered Bruce Springsteen (“Adam Raised a Cain”), Neil Young (“Rockin’ in the Free World”), and The Jim Carroll Band (“People Who Died”).

Check out more pictures from the show, setlists for both bands, and video of that collaborative “Rockin'” encore.

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SETLIST: The Hold Steady @ The Paramount – June 28, 2014
The Sweet Part of the City
The Only Thing
Hornets! Hornets!
I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You
Sequestered in Memphis
You Can Make Him Like You
Spinners
The Ambassador
The Weekenders
Charlemagne in Sweatpants
Constructive Summer
Hot Soft Light
Chips Ahoy!
Stuck Between Stations
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Massive Nights
Southtown Girls

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SETLIST: Drive-By Truckers @ The Paramount – June 28, 2014

Birthday Boy
The Righteous Path
A Ghost to Most
When He’s Gone
3 Dimes Down
Why Henry Drinks
Love Like This
Pauline Hawkins
Primer Coat
Box Spiders
Where the Devil Don’t Stay
Goode’s Field Road
Made Up English Oceans
Hell No, I Ain’t Happy

Encore:

Shit Shots Count
Let There Be Rock
Adam Raised a Cain (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young cover)
People Who Died (The Jim Carroll Band cover)
Grand Canyon

The Hold Steady and Drive By Truckers – Keep On Rockin in the Free World