Sweet North Carolina - Bon Jovi goes back to back in Charlotte & Raleigh

That's right, it's a double show post 'cause Bon Jovi did back-to-back shows on the weekend (which is a little rarer these days than it might have been in tours gone by). Here's what they dished up to the fine people of North Carolina.

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA - April 8, 2022

Spectrum Center

1. Limitless
2. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. It's My Life
6. Just Older
7. Born to Be My Baby
8. This House Is Not For Sale
9. Let It Rain
10. Keep the Faith
11. American Reckoning - acoustic
12. We Don't Run - acoustic
13. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - acoustic
14. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
15. Beautiful Drug
16. Wanted Dead or Alive
17. Roller Coaster
    
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Livin' on a Prayer
    
    encore:
20. Who Says You Can't Go Home
21. Bad Medicine

Scroll down for videos.

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - April 9, 2022

PNC Arena

1. Limitless
2. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. It's My Life
6. Just Older
7. Born To Be My Baby
8. This House Is Not For Sale
9. Story of Love
10. Let It Rain
11. Keep the Faith
12. American Reckoning - acoustic
13. We Don't Run - acoustic
14. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - acoustic
15. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
16. Lost Highway
17. Wanted Dead or Alive
18. Roller Coaster
19. Have a Nice Day
20. Livin' on a Prayer
    
    encore: 
21. Who Says You Can't Go Home
22. Bad Medicine

Selected videos from Charlotte

"American Reckoning". Bruce Springsteen is quite possibly my favourite live act, so I have a real soft spot for the use of "The Promised Land" harmonica intro/outro. Actually, Jon cranking out the harmonica was one of my favourite things about this song anyway. And the "New Jersey vs Everybody" shirt is a nice touch, ha:

"Let It Rain" with another harmonica outro. Harmonica, more like HarJonica, amirite? Okay, that was terrible -- I'll shut up now and let you watch the video (with bonus David Bryan facial expressions):

 "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" is probably one of my less liked Keep the Faith tracks, but it's a fun song that made its tour debut in Charlotte:

Selected videos from Raleigh

"Story of Love". Big fan of this song, which made its tour premiere in Raleigh:

"Limitless". I'm still disappointed this was the lead single over "Beautiful Drug" but whatever. The song is okay and I don't mind it as the show opener:

"Someday I'll Be Saturday Night". Jon has a bit of a coughing fit in the middle of this performance but I'm fairly confident he hasn't re-contracted COVID. Anyway, I always dug the acoustic version of "Saturday Night" regardless of why they might be doing it that way now:

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