WILMINGTON — The opening night of a co-headlining from My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Ratliff and the Night Sweats graced the Live Oak Bank Pavilion stage on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
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Part of the 11-city Eye to Eye tour, the bands switch off opening each night. My Morning Jacket played first through a set of a dozen or tracks, including “Golden,” “I’m Amazed,” and “Holdin Back the Metal.”
Nathaniel Rateliff’s 20-song set included tunes like “I Never Get Old,” “S.O.B.” and “Hey Mama.”
Both bands have played Wilmington before, but together they collaborated onstage during each set. Nathaniel Rateliff joined MMJ for The Band’s “Makes No Difference” and Jim James joined the Night Sweats for Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.”
“We were lucky enough to see Nathaniel and some of the Night Sweats at Preservation Hall in New Orleans some years ago,” Jim James said in a release about the tour. “Our minds were blown, our hearts were opened, and we got swept up in the joy of it all.”
Rateliff added the two bands have become close throughout the years.
“It’s so special to become friends with musicians and peers that you admire and we’re looking forward to bringing our love for each other on the road,” he noted.
Below are the setlists and photos, captured by MoonFrog Media’s Tom Dorgan, from Wilmington’s show.
My Morning Jacket
Setlist:
Circuital
Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 1
Spring (Among the Living)
Mahgeetah
Golden
I’m Amazed
Steam Engine
It Makes No Difference (The Band cover) (with Nathaniel Rateliff)
Victory Dance
Holdin On to Black Metal
Lay Low
Dancefloors
Wordless Chorus
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
Setlist:
David and Goliath
I’m On Your Side
Survivor
Look It Here
Intro
I Need Never Get Old
Shake
Time Makes Fools of Us All
A Little Honey
Wasting Time
Heartless
Get Used to the Night
Slow Pace of Time
Remember I Was a Dancer
South of Here
You Worry Me
Hey Mama
Call Me (Whatever You Like)
I’ll Be Damned
Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen cover) (with Jim James)
Encore:
S.O.B.
Love Don’t
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