As a postscript to our look back at Spirit Trail, here’s a closer look at some of the numbers we’ve quoted to you over the last month.
We have hundreds of setlists since Spirit Trail’s release in 1998. Here’s a list of how many times we have records of each song appearing in the subsequent 25 years:
- King of the Hill: 209
- Sunflower Cat (Some Dour Cat/Down With That): 170
- Fortunate Son: 142
- Funhouse: 141
- Shadow Hand: 137
- Great Divide: 133
- Resting Place: 116
- Sneaking Up On Boo Radley: 103
- Pete & Manny: 67
- Swan Song: 64
- See the Same Way: 61
- Sad Moon: 52
- Song C: 50
- Preacher In The Ring Part 1: 36
- Line in the Dust: 33
- Preacher In The Ring Part 2: 21
- Sunlight Moon : 20 (19 solo)
- Song D: 13
- Variations on Swan Song & Song D: 4
- Listen to the Silence: 3
We also asked for your favourite track, now that you’ve had a quarter of a century to consider it. We’ve included how they placed in the last couple of times we asked, in 1998 and 2011.
- 1st: Fortunate Son (15%), (1st in 1998, 1st in 2011)
- 2nd: Swan Song (14%, 2nd, 2nd)
- 3rd: Resting Place (12%, 3rd, 5th)
- 4th: King of the Hill (6%, 5th, 9th)
- 5th=: Line in the Dust (6%, 6th=, 13th)
- 5th=: See the Same Way (6%, 13th, 7th)
- 7th: Shadow Hand (5%, 4th, 4th)
- 8th=: Great Divide (5%, 10th, 3rd)
- 8th=: Sunflower Cat (5%, 9th, 8th)
- 10th: Sad Moon (5%, 8th, 12th)
- 11th=: Funhouse (4%, 14th, 10th)
- 11th=: Preacher in the Ring Part Two (4%, 15th=, 17th)
- 11th=: Song C (4%, 11th, 11th)
- 14th: Preacher in the Ring Part One (3%, 15th=, 18th)
- 15th: Sunlight Moon (2%, 12th, 15th)
- 16th: Sneaking Up on Boo Radley (1%, 6th=, 6th)
- 17th=: Pete & Manny (1%, 17th, 20th)
- 17th=: Listen to the Silence (1%, 18th=, 19th)
- 19th: Variations on Swan Song/Song D (0.5%, 18th=, 16th)
- 20th: Song D: (0.5%, 18th=, 14th)
Thanks all for coming to visit and contributing during the last month!