Openers & Closers

Where songs land in the show — which ones open the night, close the main set, close the whole show, and turn up in the encore, plus how encore length has moved over time. The opener is the first song; the main-set closer is the last song before the encore; the show closer is the very last song of the night.

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Openers times opened
  1. 1 Handshake Drugs 35
  2. 2 Infinite Surprise 29
  3. 3 Story to Tell 20
  4. 4 Company In My Back 17
  5. 5 Wishful Thinking 16
  6. 6 Hell Is Chrome 13
  7. 7 Via Chicago 7
  8. 8 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 6
  9. 9 Misunderstood 5
  10. 10 Pittsburgh 5
  11. 11 One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 4
  12. 12 I Am My Mother 2
  13. 13 Airline To Heaven 1
  14. 14 Candyfloss 1
  15. 15 Christ For President 1
  16. 16 Either Way 1
  17. 17 Far, Far Away 1
  18. 18 Hesitating Beauty 1
  19. 19 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 1
  20. 20 Poor Places 1
  21. 21 Red-Eyed And Blue 1
  22. 22 Sky Blue Sky 1
  23. 23 What Light 1
  24. 24 Whole Love 1
  25. 25 You Satellite 1
Main-Set Closers ended the main set
  1. 1 A Shot In The Arm 65
  2. 2 I'm The Man Who Loves You 52
  3. 3 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 24
  4. 4 Kingpin 5
  5. 5 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) 4
  6. 6 U.S. Blues 3
  7. 7 California Stars 2
  8. 8 I'm A Wheel 2
  9. 9 I'm Always In Love 2
  10. 10 Less Than You Think 2
  11. 11 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 2
  12. 12 All You Fascists 1
  13. 13 Give Back The Key To My Heart 1
  14. 14 Heavy Metal Drummer 1
  15. 15 Hummingbird 1
  16. 16 Monday 1
  17. 17 Outta Mind (Outta Sight) 1
  18. 18 Red-Eyed And Blue 1
  19. 19 Walken 1
  20. 20 Wilco (The Song) 1
Show Closers ended the night
  1. 1 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 44
  2. 2 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 36
  3. 3 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) 34
  4. 4 U.S. Blues 11
  5. 5 A Shot In The Arm 9
  6. 6 I'm A Wheel 9
  7. 7 California Stars 8
  8. 8 Kingpin 3
  9. 9 Let's Not Get Carried Away 3
  10. 10 Monday 3
  11. 11 Casino Queen 2
  12. 12 Dreamer In My Dreams 1
  13. 13 Falling Apart (Right Now) 1
  14. 14 Give Back The Key To My Heart 1
  15. 15 Heavy Metal Drummer 1
  16. 16 I'm Always In Love 1
  17. 17 Just A Kid 1
  18. 18 Kicking Television 1
  19. 19 Tell Your Friends 1
  20. 20 This Land Is Your Land 1
  21. 21 Walken 1
Encore Songs encore appearances
  1. 1 California Stars 82
  2. 2 Falling Apart (Right Now) 77
  3. 3 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) 69
  4. 4 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 45
  5. 5 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 41
  6. 6 Walken 36
  7. 7 Monday 19
  8. 8 The Late Greats 19
  9. 9 Via Chicago 13
  10. 10 I'm A Wheel 9
  11. 11 Casino Queen 8
  12. 12 U.S. Blues 8
  13. 13 A Shot In The Arm 7
  14. 14 Candyfloss 5
  15. 15 Let's Not Get Carried Away 5
  16. 16 Red-Eyed And Blue 5
  17. 17 Kicking Television 4
  18. 18 You And I 4
  19. 19 Box Full Of Letters 3
  20. 20 Just A Kid 3
  21. 21 Too Far Apart 3
  22. 22 A Lifetime to Find 2
  23. 23 Ashes Of American Flags 2
  24. 24 Cruel Country 2
  25. 25 Heavy Metal Drummer 2

Top 25 of 45 distinct songs

Encore length by year

YearEncoresAvg songs
2023403.4
2024333.5
2025463.4
2026322.8

Setlists here don’t carry explicit “encore” labels, so the encore is inferred from set breaks: it’s the run of shorter sets at the end of the night (each under half the length of the show’s longest set), which keeps a genuine second set from being counted as an encore. Shows where the setlist wasn’t split into sets contribute an opener and closers but no encore.