Tonight’s show is all about the soldiers.

• Decoration Day/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Drive-By Truckers[/lastfm]
• Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]The Zombies[/lastfm]
• Brothers In Arms/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Dire Straits[/lastfm]
• G.I. Jive/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Louis Jordan[/lastfm] and the Tympani 5
• Soldier Boy/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]The Shirelles[/lastfm]
• Soldier’s Things/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Tom Waits[/lastfm]
• Goodnight Saigon/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Billy Joel[/lastfm]
• Soldier’s Poem/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Muse[/lastfm]
• Black Gold/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Soul Asylum[/lastfm]
• Travelin’ Soldier/[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Dixie Chicks[/lastfm]

This gets me every single time I see it. It’s an excerpt from Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Tim Buckley[/lastfm]‘s song “Once I Was” is perfect.

Also, John Mayer supports NCIRE , a veteran’s organization that does wonderful things for veterans.