The String Cheese Incident Unearths More Bust Outs & Offers Debut At Aspen Finale

The String Cheese Incident‘s 2017 Roots Revival Tour has been a wild one and that trend continued on Wednesday night at The Belly Up in Aspen. The band had plenty of surprises in store including the debut cover of a Maceo Parker classic and a bevy of bust outs as well as a shout out to International Women’s Day.

Cheese has started each performance on the run by going acoustic. Wednesday night’s mostly-acoustic first set featured their first ever unplugged “Rollover” and three tunes they hadn’t played in at least 100 shows. SCI opened with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” and then dusted off Bill Nershi’s “The Road Home” for the first time since August 5, 2007 – a span of 212 shows. The bust outs kept coming with a cover of Don Reno’s “Long Gone,” last played at Rothbury 2012. Yet another surprise came soon after with the group’s first version of the reggae gem “Stop That Train” since July 8, 2004.

The String Cheese Incident began last night’s second set with “Desert Dawn.” Cheese worked the tune into their first ever version of Maceo Parker’s funk classic “Shake Everything You Got” ahead of “Miss Brown’s Teahouse.” Wednesday’s second set wound up being one huge “Desert Dawn” sandwich as they ended the set with the conclusion of the song. For the encore, SCI treated fans to a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Shaking The Tree.” Gabriel’s song was a fitting number as its lyrics reference International Women’s Day which was celebrated on Wednesday. SCI now heads to Crested Butte for a Friday night show.

Setlist (via Friends Of Cheese)

Set One: Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues, The Road Home1, Long Gone2, Mouna Bowa, Stop That Train3, Honky Tonk Heroes, Rollover, These Waves > Djibouti Bump > Colliding > Long Train Runnin’ > Colliding

Set Two: Desert Dawn > Shake Everything You Got4 > Miss Browns Teahouse, Sirens, Windy Mountain, Freedom Jazz Dance, BollyMunster, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) > Desert Dawn

Encore: Shaking The Tree

1 Last Time Played 8/5/07 (212 shows), 2 Last Time Played 7/1/12 (127 shows), 3 Last Time Played 7/8/04 (343 shows), 4 First time played