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REK Set List - Troubadour Festival

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agenjake
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5:21p, 3/29/26
Anybody else make it to the Troubadour Festival yesterday? Beautiful weather and a good lineup.

Working from memory I am trying to piece together Robert Earl's set list, just for the heck of it. Glad for any corrections, but it went something like this:

1. I'm Coming Home
2. Train Song (tribute to Todd Snider)
3. Farm Fresh Onions
4. Amarillo Highway
5. Think it Over One Time
6. Copenhagen
7. Road Goes on Forever
8. Man Behind the Drum
9. Mr Wolf and Mama Bear
10. Buckin Song
11. Barbecue
12. Corpus Christi Bay
13. Shades of Gray
14. Five Pound Bass
15. Dreadful Selfish Crime

Encore
16. I Gotta Go
17. Gringo Honeymoon
18. Feeling Good Again


Flatland Cavalry and Jason Boland put on great shows.

Tyce Delk and Waylon Wyatt were new to me, but did a good job.
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7:29p, 3/29/26
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I was pissed when the emcee blew the amp while introducing REK. His first half-dozen songs sounded like he was playing over the world's largest bug zapper.

Glad the crew was able to swap amps mid-set.
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TMfrisco
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In reply to agenjake • 9:46p, 3/29/26
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agenjake said:
Anybody else make it to the Troubadour Festival yesterday? Beautiful weather and a good lineup.

Working from memory I am trying to piece together Robert Earl's set list, just for the heck of it. Glad for any corrections, but it went something like this:

1. I'm Coming Home
2. Train Song (tribute to Todd Snider)
3. Farm Fresh Onions
4. Amarillo Highway
5. Think it Over One Time
6. Copenhagen
7. Road Goes on Forever
8. Man Behind the Drum
9. Mr Wolf and Mama Bear
10. Buckin Song
11. Barbecue
12. Corpus Christi Bay
13. Shades of Gray
14. Five Pound Bass
15. Dreadful Selfish Crime

Encore
16. I Gotta Go
17. Gringo Honeymoon
18. Feeling Good Again


Flatland Cavalry and Jason Boland put on great shows.

Tyce Delk and Waylon Wyatt were new to me, but did a good job.

I think your order is a little off, but I think the list is mostly correct - I think the opener was Floppy Shoes. I've seen him maybe 50 times and I think he is getting a little self-indulgent(as is his right) in his old age.
Personally, I don't think Farm Fresh Onions, Mr. Wolf and Mamma Bear, Buckin' Song, Floppy Shoes and BBQ should ever make a set list. Blasphemously - I don't care if he ever plays Five Pound Bass or Copenhagen on anything but a rare occasion.
He has so many better songs than these. I am starting to wonder if the loss of Rich Brotherton on guitar and Marty Muse on the pedal steel have changed what he thinks sound good and he should play. Without those two the "musicality" of the band suffers a little. Kym Warner and the mandolin and all the other instruments he plays are great - but not the pedal steel. Brian Becon is a great fiddle player, but not the guitarist Brotherton was.
I didn't know much about Flatland Calvary, but enjoyed their show.
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1:22a, 3/30/26
Floppy Shoes- that's the one. I remembered it was an obscure one... that I couldn't remember.

I definitely would have traded that one for Front Porch Song.

I was glad he played BBQ considering the event, and had a good laugh at him lamenting that the crowd couldn't sing along.

All in all, it was great. He no-showed at Floore's when I had taken my daughter there, so this was round two. She lit up and teared up at 'Road Goes in Forever', which is her favorite song. And closing the night with Feeling Good Again after a great day back in BCS hit me in the feels a bit.

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8:57a, 3/30/26
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I went, had VIP. A great event and a good show. I thought Flatland Cavalry was better than REK and I have seen REK more than any other band. Wasn't his best set (not even close), but not his worst. Glad they fixed the buzzing...it was awful.

BBQ was amazing. Weather and location were perfect. All in all, a great day!
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In reply to dodger02 • 9:14a, 3/30/26
dodger02 said:
I was pissed when the emcee blew the amp while introducing REK. His first half-dozen songs sounded like he was playing over the world's largest bug zapper.

Glad the crew was able to swap amps mid-set.

I used to have a part time gig at KORA on the weekends & got to introduce a band or two, most notably the Bellamy Brothers.

Luckily I realized that no one...and I mean NO ONE, cares or listens to the emcee from the whackadoodle morning show on whatever the hell radio station you work for. Total time for my intro for the Bellamy's...less than 20 seconds.
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10:27a, 3/30/26
AG
Attended last year. I much preferred the venue and set up this year compared to Aggie Park. Lots more room and spread out. Food was amazing as usual. Texas BBQ is awesome. But what made me leary was thousands of people simultaneously heading to bus line to catch shuttle at end of REK. Unless you were VIP+ or took ride share , your only choice was shuttle from Downtown Bryan or MSC. So we left a bit early to avoid that potential cluster. Anyone stay to the end?

Also, seen REK a few times. First time seeing Flatland. Very talented group/musicians. Jason Boland was great as well. And enjoyed listening to Aggie Julianna Rankin.
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11:30a, 3/30/26
Ride share wasn't bad. Uber was 20 minute wait. But there were unassigned drivers there for the taking.
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12:13p, 3/30/26
AG
REK was terrible. He sounded like crap ands i have seen him many many times. . Flatland should have been the headliner. They killed it.
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12:16p, 3/30/26
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I agree with a few others about the set list, I could do without BBQ, That Buckin Song and Copenhagen but I do understand they are fun singalong songs for the crowd and they have a time and a place to be performed.

Honestly, I got over Corpus Christi Bay a long time ago. I'd rather hear Mr. Wolf and Mama Bear, I Gotta Go, Black Baldy Stallion, Lonely Feeling, Walking Cane and especially the "Road to No Return" suite from Walking Distance (all three songs performed in order).

All that being said, when making the set list you think about the venue, the likely attendees, what might get the best reaction/value for the attendees, and lastly what you really want to play.
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In reply to Mr. McGibblets • 12:16p, 3/30/26
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Mr. McGibblets said:
REK was terrible. He sounded like crap ands i have seen him many many times. . Flatland should have been the headliner. They killed it.

Terrible is a bit strong - but it was a terrible set list for that crowd. Sometimes you need to know your audience.
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1:12p, 3/30/26
There were a few fantastic songs, a few I haven't thought about in a while, and a couple of crappers.

So just like an REK album.

The sound got better and better and the last 4-5 songs were nails.


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In reply to TMfrisco • 6:25p, 3/30/26
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Terrible is the only word that can describe it. Huge REK fan but man that was brutal to listen too.
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6:43p, 3/30/26
I saw him earlier this year in Corpus, and it was great.

2 of my friends, whose opinions on these things I listen to, also saw him and they both said it was awful.

Perhaps not knowing his audience is real.
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1:10p, 3/31/26
AG
Side topic: I was driving this morning, streaming some music and REK comes on with "The Road Goes On and On"

I've heard him play this live, but I wonder if it has been deleted from his live shows since Toby Keith died a couple of years ago?
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In reply to dodger02 • 2:00p, 4/21/26
dodger02 said:
I was pissed when the emcee blew the amp while introducing REK. His first half-dozen songs sounded like he was playing over the world's largest bug zapper.

Glad the crew was able to swap amps mid-set.

I'm late to the response here, but I didn't blow an amp on the REK intro (not sure how talking into a microphone would blow an amp, but I digress). There were other technical issues that needed to get fixed before the band went out, but some things got crossed. But as mentioned, it all got corrected and REK sounded great afterward. These things happen, unfortunately.
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3:41p, 4/21/26
AG
interesting comments. I was wondering if you could create a setlist for REK what would it include? I think I would have these songs played (not in this particular order):

Front Porch Song
Rolling By
The Road Goes on Forever
Mariano
Leavin' Tennessee
Amarillo Highway
Jesse with the Long hair hanging down
Paint the Town Beige
Corpus Christi Bay
Gringo Honeymoon
I'm Comin Home
Dreadful Selfish Crime
Shades of Gray
Undone
Down that Dusty trail
Feelin Good Again
Walkin Cane
What I Really Mean
What do you boys want for breakfast BBQ ?.....OK Chili.
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In reply to TroubadourFestival • 7:12p, 4/21/26
No worries, man. It was a great event.

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agenjake
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In reply to MAROON • 8:03p, 4/21/26
That's a great question. I think mine would be:

Amarillo Highway
Tom Ames' Prayer
I'm Coming Home
Laughing River
Armadillo Jackal
Corpus Christi Bay
Shades of Gray
My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame
Sonora's Death Row
Think it Over One Time
Death of Tail Fitzsimmons
Road Goes on Forever
No Kinda Dancer
Levelland
Dreadful Selfish Crime
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Front Porch Song
Gringo Honeymoon
Feelin' Good Again

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HalifaxAg
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1:15p, 4/22/26
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None of you would have added "Little Things" to your set list?
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