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New Orleans rock band, Cowboy Mouth, rocked a sold out crowd at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco last night. I missed them when they played at the PB Block Party in San Diego in 2005, so I wasn’t going to let that happen again.

The venue is a couple of blocks from my home and the way I found out that they were playing was because, stumbling home the night prior, I saw their Southern Comfort-donated tour bus parked outside.

The opening act, a local San Francisco band, Whiskey Pills (& the PBR Street Gang?) warmed up the crowd for an hour. Their alt-country style is one that’s hard to find in the mainstream. Now that I’m aware of them, I’ll have to check them out sometime.

The Cowboy Mouth quartet took the stage shortly after and front man Fred LeBlanc riled everybody up like a summer camp counselor with his signature phrases “Are you with me?!” and “I can’t hear you!” and reminded us what a blast it is to be alive and encouraged us to go crazy.

My memory doesn’t serve me quite well, but from what I remember the set list included, in no particular order:

• Everybody Loves Jill
• Light it on Fire
• Hurricane Party
• The Love of My Life
• New Orleans
• Joe Strummer
• Voodoo Shoppe
• Jenny Says
• Laughable
• Slow Down

The song Joe Strummer, a punk tribute to the Clash off their newest album, talks about how he had to let a girl go because she didn’t know who Joe Strummer was. Sounds like a good criterion to me.

I recommend that everybody check out Cowboy Mouth if they can. They’re driving to LA tomorrow and will be finishing up the tour at the Voodoo Festival in their hometown of New Orleans.