Bootleggers Beware

Check out an episode of Bootleggers Beware from the archives of the show, recorded on May 3, 2025

What did we play? You'll have to listen to find out!

This week's 'From The Archives' edition of Bootleggers Beware comes to you from December 21, 2024

What did we play? I don't remember! Fire it up and find out!

While Bootleggers Beware is on the search for a new home for the live broadcast, we'll be exploring some of the over 500 podcast episodes we've recorded over the years!

Check this one out from December 14, 2019! What did we play? Your guess is as good as mine...fire it up and find out!

November 29, 2025 marks Bootleggers Beware's final episode aired live on The Radiator in Burlington, VT. Our whole family joined in celebration of the 15 years we've spent together on Saturdays. 

I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest thanks and gratitude to each and every one of you who have shared your Saturdays with me over the last 15 years. As I've said many times before: I am humbled and honored that you have chosen to share your Saturday with me, whether for one show, a hundred, or five hundred.

I would also like to thank our friends at Big Heavy World and The Radiator for allowing me to make my radio dream a reality. Without them, their support, and the artistic freedom they've allowed me, Bootleggers Beware would not be what it is.  

It has been and is my pleasure to share my love of live music with you every week, and I look forward to the day that we can pick up where we're leaving off.

While I am unsure what the future holds for return of the live broadcast of Bootleggers Beware, I will continue to keep music and photos flowing from our Facebook page.

For now, thank you all for your support and continued listenership over the years. It means the world to me. 

This week's setlist, curated heavily by my father, Peter Mickel: 

Heartbreaker: Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same 
King of The World: Steely Dan - The Sopwith Camel 
Running Down A Dream: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Saratoga Performing Arts Center 
Statesboro Blues: Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East '71
South California Purples: Chicago - Carnegie Hall Complete
Flirtin' With Disaster: Molly Hatchet - Royal Oak Music Theater
Mortal Dread: The Darkness - Brooklyn Bowl 
Sympathy For The Devil: The Rolling Stones - Carter-Finley Stadium
Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who - Live At The Oval 1971
Ramble On: Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
Dazed And Confused: Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day
I'm A Man: Chicago - Texas International Pop Festival 
My Old School: Steely Dan - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion 
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys: Traffic - Cleveland Public Hall 
Already Gone: The Eagles - Giants Stadium 
Faster: Matt Nathanson - Irving Plaza 
Whipping Post: Gov't Mule - Beacon Theatre 
Rocky Mountain Way: Joe Walsh - Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
All The Way From Memphis: Mott The Hooble - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 
Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Time: Pink Floyd - Orange Bowl 
Sunshine of Your Love: Cream - Winterland Ballroom 
Perpetual Change: Yes - Inglewood Forum 
Empty Pages: Traffic - Paris Theater
Roundabout: Yes - Oakland Coliseum

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

We managed to get in a little bonus time on The Radiator this week, thanks to an empty studio on Thanksgiving Eve. This week's bonus episode features a visit from our friend Bob, and the one and only, Mrs. Bootlegger, for the first time ever!

Enjoy!

Welcome To The Club: Joe Walsh - Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
Wake Up And Live: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Oakland Auditorium 
Let The Music Play: Stick Figure - Crystal Bay Club 
Sugaree: Grateful Dead - Austin Municipal Auditorium 
Tangled Up In Blue: Tedeschi Trucks Band - MGM Music Hall 
Fresh Garbage: Spirit - Orpheum Theater 
Mannish Boy: Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Checkerboard Lounge
Killing Floor: Howlin' Wolf - Key Largo's 
Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd - Melbourne Tennis Center
Blue Sky: Allman Brothers Band - SUNY Stonybrook 
I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes: Ten Years After - Texas International Pop Festival 
Pride And Joy: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Knickerbocker Cafe
Mojo Boogie: Johnny Winter - Vic Theater
Soul Sacrifice: Santana - Budokan Hall 
Turn To Stone: Roy Buchanan - The Keystone 
Broken Hearted Savior: Big Head Todd & The Monster - Allis Plaza
Magnolia: JJ Cale - Cain's Ballroom 
Are Ya: Judy Sings The Blues: Backstage Pass: Live!
All That You Dream: Little Feat - Lisner Auditorium 
Oh Well: Fleetwood Mac - Fillmore West
Free Bird: Lynyrd Skynyd - Capitol Theatre 
Locomotive Breath: Jethro Tull - Apollo Theatre
Further On Down The Road: Lonnie Mack - Hickory, NC 
With A Little Help From My Friends: Tedeschi Trucks Band - Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring: Traffic - Fillmore East

Hotel Columbo: The Shady Trees - Oxbow Park 
Not Fade Away: Grateful Dead - Brendan Byrne Arena
Blue And Lonesome: All Night Boogie Band - Nectar's 
Ramblin' Man: Allman Brothers Band - Alltel Pavilion 
Bring It On Home: Led Zeppelin - Inglewood Forum 
Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys - National Mall
Turn To Stone: Joe Walsh - Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
Slippin' Into Darkness: WAR - Live In Japan 1974
A Song For You: Leon Russell - Hunt's Tavern 
Cry Me A River: Joe Cocker - Fillmore West 
Madman Across The Water: Elton John - University of Notre Dame 
It's Good To Be King: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Irving Plaza
Beautifully Broken: Gov't Mule - Atrium Health Amphitheater
First Class Life: The Blood Brothers - The Funky Biscuit
Cosmik Debris: Frank Zappa - The Ahoy 
Hip To Be Square: Huey Lewis & The News - Portland Coliseum 
Run Away With You: Los Lobos - Penn's Landing 
Surrender Under Protest: Drive By Truckers - Fox Theatre
Call Me The Breeze: Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Mosque 
Stick Around For Rock And Roll: The Outlaws - The Bottom Line 
Mean Town Blues: Johnny Winter And - Live At Fillmore East 
Long Haired Country Boy: Charlie Daniels Band - Nassau Coliseum 
Can't You See: Marshall Tucker Band - The Warehouse 
Midnight Rider: Gregg Allman - Back In Macon
Run With The Pack: Bad Company - Tingley Coliseum 
Highway Lady: UFO - Starwood Club 
30 Days In The Hole: Humble Pie - Reseda Country Club
Rockin' In The Free World: Pearl Jam - Golden Gate Park 
Shock Me: Kiss - Alive II 
Get On Up And Do It: Savoy Brown - The Bottom Line 
Love March: Paul Butterfield Blues Band - A&R Studios

Black Dog: Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won 
Chief: Lettuce - Higher Ground 
Hard Day Coming Down: The Record Company - House of Blues 
I Like To Live The Love: BB King - Tennessee International Blues Festival 
I'll Play The Blues For You: Albert King - Tennessee International Blues Festival 
Death Letter Blues: Tinsley Ellis - The Funky Biscuit 
30 Days In The Hole: Gov't Mule - St. Andrew's Hall 
Achilles Last Stand: Temple of The Dog - Tower Theater 
Turnin' Left: Chickenfoot - Webster Hall 
Don't Do That: Novo Combo - Paradise Rock Club 
Black Maria: Utopia - Fox Theatre 
St. Stephen: Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 
Devil In Disguise: The Flying Burrito Brothers - Fillmore East
Crow Jane: Derek Trucks Band - Live In Germany 
What's Love Got To Do With It: Miles Davis - Palau del Esports
Chance In A Million: Zero - The Double E
Refugee: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Stephen C. O'Connell Center
SOB: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - The TLA
Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Going Down: Jeff Beck - Capitol Center
Dry Run: GA-20 - Animas City Theater
Leave No Gold: The Jayhawks - First Avenue 
Witchy Woman: The Eagles - The Summit
Deja Voodoo: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Waverly Beach 
Viola Lee Blues: The Grapes - Georgia Theatre
When The Whip Comes Down: The Rolling Stones - Brendan Byrne Arena
Smokestack Lightning: Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fillmore West
Rock And Roll: Led Zeppelin - Southampton University

Have A Cigar: Gov't Mule - Dark Side of The Mule 
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Grand Funk Railroad - Agora Ballroom 
Maggot Brain: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - Howard Theater
Terminal Frost: Pink Floyd - Orange Bowl 
Fat Man In The Bathtub: Little Feat - Orpheum Theater
Sugaree: Dead & Company - Madison Square Garden 
Diamond Diary: Tangerine Dream - National Stadium 
Code of The Road: Nils Lofgren - The Stone Pony 
Watching And Waiting: The Moody Blues - Freedom Hall 
When The Levee Breaks: John Paul Jones - The Joint
Give Yourself Over: John Brown's Body - The Independent
Cold Blooded: Gary Clark, Jr. - The Fillmore 
Bulldozers And Dirt: Drive By Truckers - Orpheum Theatre
Up On Cripple Creek: The Band - Syria Mosque 
Dreams: The Black Crowes - Beacon Theatre
Through Hiker: Ekoostik Hookah - Newport Music Hall 
Carmelita: Neighbor - Higher Ground 
Mimi Digs It: LaMP - Higher Ground 
Expiration Day: Widespread Panic - US Cellular Center
Fly Like An Eagle: The Werks - Beachland Ballroom 
River's Gonna Rise: Warren Haynes Band - Ogden Theater
Roundabout: Umphrey's McGee - The Fillmore

Thunder: Dear Robin - Kulturzentrum
Stoned Out of My Mind: ViperHouse - The Design Center
Tightrope: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Northrop Auditorium 
Let It Rock: Rockpile - The Bottom Line 
Lay Your Burden Down: Gov't Mule - Huntridge Theater
Leaving Trunk: Derek Trucks Band - The Egg
Crazy Love: Albert Cummuings - Bull Run
Crossroads: Cream - Memorial Auditorium 
Roll It Over: Derek & The Dominos - Fillmore East 
Bird of A Feather: Phish - Inglewood Forum 
Dancing In The Streets: Grateful Dead - Kiel Opera House
Straight Ahead: Brian Auger & Oblivion Express - Reigen 
Kickin' My Heart Around: The Black Crowes - Maritime Hall 
Rodeo Clowns: G. Love & The Juice - Milk Room Brewing 
Waiting For The Bus > Jesus Just Left Chicago: Widerspread Panic - The Joint 
It's Martini Time: The Reverend Horton Heat - County Line Saloon 
Dreams: Allman Brothers Band - SUNY Stonybrook 
Do You Feel Like We Do: Neighbor - State Theater
Dancing With Mr. D: The Rolling Stones - U Arena
Hit The Road Jack: Ray Charles - Palais Des Sport 
It's A Beautiful Day Today: Moby Grape - SUNY Stonybrook 
Wicked World: Black Sabbath - Academy of Music 
Folsom Prison Blues: Zac Brown Band - Southern Ground Music Festival 
The Devil's Play: Tea Leaf Green - Vic Theater
Conquistador Rides Again: Santana - Ludlow Garage
The Ocean: Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Turn On Your Lovelight: moe. - The Warfield