June 11, 1992

COFFEE CREEK
location: Cicero's Basement Bar
place: St. Louis, MO
country: USA

COFFEE CREEK:
Jay Farrar -- Vocals, electric and acoustic guitars
Brian Henneman -- Vocals, electric and lap steel guitars, Master of Ceremonies
Jeff Tweedy -- Bass, vocals
Mike Heidorn -- Drums, goofy grins

setlist:

1. Buckeroo (end)
2. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
3. Love's Gonna Live Here
4. Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me
5. I Wanna Destroy You
6. Sleeping Room
7. Wallflower
8. (Is Anybody Going to) San Antone
9. You're Still On My Mind
10. Sing Me Back Home
11. Powderfinger (has a cut)
12. Atomic Power
13. Wrote A Song For Everyone
14. instrumental
15. Back to the Country
16. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
17. Blue Eyes
18. Moonshiner (has a cut)
19. Wasn't Born to Follow
20. A Good Year for the Roses
21. Do Re Mi
22. Thanks A Lot
23. Are You Ready For the Country
24. Texas Me
25. Mendocino
26. Movin' On
27. Texas in the Rain (?)
28. Turkey in the Straw
29. She's About A Mover
30. Waltz Across Festus (sic)

comment:

• Soundboard recording.
• This is the second of the four Coffee Creek shows. Many copies of this recording in circulation also include additional tracks from the 7/30/93 Coffee Creek show.
• Coffee Creek was an occasional side project of Uncle Tupelo, consisting of Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Mike Heidorn, and Brian Henneman. Coffee Creek was a country cover band which played out only four times; once in late December of 1991, once in June of 1992, and twice in late July of 1993, each time at Cicero's Basement Bar in St. Louis. The use of the name Coffee Creek was in large measure a way to give UT the opportunity to play the tiny Cicero's after the band's popularity in St. Louis had made it difficult for them to play there under their own name. People around St. Louis quickly figured out who Coffee Creek were, however, and all the shows after the first one quickly sold out.
  The band obviously had an enormous amount of fun playing country and country rock tunes by Doug Sahm, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, The Byrds, George Jones and others. Brian Henneman acted as the 'emcee' of the shows, aping some of Doug Sahm's song introductions word for word and keeping everything real loose. Jay and Brian did most of the singing, with Jeff generally singing only one song per show, CCR's "Wrote a Song For Everyone".
  It was rumored at one point that the band was considering recording an album, but the Uncle Tupelo breakup unfortunately meant the end of Coffee Creek. Coffee Creek is credited with producing Brian Henneman's 7" single "Indianapolis" and the cover of Merle Haggard's "Movin' On" on the 20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosions! compilation, but that is the extent of their officially released output.