Opening for Steinbeck (Live) is the second live album released by John Craigie. The album was recorded during Craigie's shows at Mississippi Studios and The Doug Fir in Portland, Oregon in December 2017.

The first single off the album, "Presidential Silver Lining" was premiered by Glide Magazine on February 9, 2018. The album was released on March 16, 2018.

Track listing NoTitleLength1Dissect the Bird (Live)5:182John Gravy/Openers (Live)3:483Halloween Sunset (Live3:424Intro to Presidential Silver Lining (Live)2:295Presidential Silver Lining (Live)4:576Pants in England (Live)4:197Resurrection Bay (Live)4:228Performing at Burning Man (Live)4:199Let's Talk This Over, When We're Sober (Live)4:1310Learning About Apollo (Live)3:5911Michael Collins (Live)2:4412Degree in Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz (Live)3:3113Westbound Bart (Live)4:5114Intro to Leviticus (Live)0:4915Talkin' Leviticus Blues (Live)4:4016Sad Songs About My Feelings (Live)3:0517Tacoma (Live)4:2618When You're An Otter (Live)2:141928 (Live)3:3720Water into Wine / Parable of the Buckets (Live)7:4721Jesus Year (live)4:5222Encore Break / Searching for Boogie (Live)5:5523Lucky to Be Alive (Live)3:26

Personnel John Craigie - guitar, vocals, harmonica

John Sheski & Juniana Lanning - Mixing and engineering

Adam Gonsalves - Mastering

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