An Evening With Cake

I went to see Cake on Friday night at the Idaho Botanical Garden, along with Katie and Jason Keffer. It was a really good show. John McCrea does most of the heavy lifting, but the rest of the band seems to have really improved since they started putting out albums in the mid-90s. The set list:

Sad Songs and Waltzes
Opera Singer
Frank Sinatra
Arco Arena
Wheels
Stick Shifts and Safety Belts
Sheep Go to Heaven
Comanche
Rock 'n Roll Lifestyle
Long Time
Mustache Man
Federal Funding
Sick of You
--Intermission
Love You Madly
Haze of Love
Guitar
Satan Is My Motor ("I know there are probably a lot of religious fundamentalists in the audience. But this is just a metaphor, so you can still go to heaven if you sing along. Probably.")
--Brief pause here to give away a willow tree- apparently they do this at all of their shows.
Jolene
Pentagram
Never There (The trumpet player has gotten so much better since this song first came out. He used to sound like the first or second chair in a fair-to-middling high school band.)
--Encore:
Short Skirt, Long Jacket
The Distance