Last night's Tom Waits show in Louisville was everything I expected it to be. The Palace Theatre is a beautiful place to see a show, especially when you have front row seats (not counting the three rows of ass-pain-inducing hotel-ballroom-type chairs of journalists and not-VIPs). I'm horrible with setlists, but there was a pretty heavy concentration of Mule Variations and Real Gone songs, and standards like "Tom Traubert's Blues," which was particularly nice. I was sorely disappointed in the rendition of "Get Behind The Mule," which was handled more capably by Chris Whitley fronting Gov't Mule a handful of years ago. More than anything, though, it was a *show*, and I mean that in the best possible way.The fact that the tickets were ultimately paid for with proceeds from selling a pair of Ryan Adams tickets on eBay for $295 made it that much sweeter.My list of must-see artists is now complete, and I'm kinda done with live music for a while.