Photo via Peach Music Festival’s Facebook page

Scranton, Pa.’s annual Peach Music Festival continued last night. My Morning Jacket served as the festival’s mainstage headliner, and as they often do during big festival sets, the Kentucky-bred rockers used the opportunity to play a mix of fun covers.  

During their opening number, “Phone Went West,” the Jacket offered a bit of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.” A few songs later, the group debuted their take on The Beatles’ “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” one of several; new covers they have introduced this year. Then, after a segue from “I’m Amazed” into “Dancefloors,” the band moved into their first take on The Rolling Stones’ “Happy” since their One Big Holiday event in 2015. Finally, near the end of the show, My Morning Jacket offered a bit of Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen” during “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2.” (My Morning Jacket appear to be having fun with their setlists this run; a night earlier at New Haven, Conn.’s  Westville Music Bowl they played The Tennessee Fire songs “The Dark” and “Old Sept. Blues,” as well as the Chocolate & Ice cut “Sooner” for the first time this year and mixed “Wordless Chroses” into the sections of an extended “Cobra.”)

Covers and sit-ins proved to be highlights of several of The Peach Festival’s sets on Saturday. As they have during their current run, Les Claypool’s reactivated Fearless Frog Brigade performed Pink Floyd’s Animals in its entirety. And earlier in the day, Andy Frasco took home honors for most sit-ins, inviting Frog Brigade percussionist Mike Dillon and all the members of Dogs In A Pile for “Slam Piece,” Twiddle’s Mihali for “Waiting Game,” Damn Skippy and Karina Rykman for “It’s Been a Struggle” and Melt for “Dancin’ Around My Grave.” He also took on both My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers” and Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On.”

Peach continues today with performances by Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Ziggy Marley and many others.