Must have been later than "Late 80s": Jonas & Ezekiel was published in 1992 on "Rites of Passage". The same concert also featured "Fare thee well", which Emily introduces as "brand new" - it was released in 1994 on "Swamp Ophelia".
Wow I remember watching this episode. Back home in San Antonio ACL was on on Saturday nights. Mary Chapin Carpenter played in feeling lucky, Nancy Griffin did from a distance, and the girls also did hammer and a nail. One of my favorite ACL shows.
I would say it’s probably pre-Rites Of Passage, given that it’s in a different key (there’s no other recording of them playing it in Am, they use a capo to put it in Bm) and that it seems Emily hasn’t written her part yet
His name was Bob Sheldon and he owned a bookstore called Internationalist Books and he was murdered. Cops declared it a robbery gone wrong and closed the case, but it was probably a hate crime or possibly something even more sinister. If you Google his name and the bookstore’s you’ll find articles about it, there’s one from the Indy Week by someone who worked at the bookstore. Sonic Youth also sang about him in their song “Chapel Hill.”
