New World Music Theatre
Tinley Park, IL
- Birds of a Feather,💬 Banter5:46
- Farmhouse,5:22
- The Moma Dance,10:59
- Runaway Jim ->Tease10:35
- Arc¹ ->DebutGuestCover · Neil Young💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:59
- Down By the River¹,DebutGuestJamchartsCover · Neil Young💎 Rare · 1 play ever19:04
- Moonlight in Vermont²,DebutGuestCover · Blackburn and Suessdorf💎 Rare · 1 play ever4:09
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?² >DebutBustout · 286-show gapGuestCover · Traditional💎 Rare · 2 plays ever2:52
- Amazing Grace³ >A CappellaBustout · 115-show gapGuestCover · Traditional5:42
- Uncloudy Day²DebutTeaseGuestCover · The Staples Singers💎 Rare · 1 play ever3:22
¹ Phish debut; Neil Young on guitar.
² Phish debut; Neil Young and Willie Nelson on guitar and Paul Schaffer on keyboards.
³ Neil Young and Willie Nelson on guitar and Paul Schaffer on keyboards.
This single set performance was part of the annual Farm Aid benefit concert which also included Hootie and the Blowfish, The Del McCoury Band, Brian Wilson, Wilco, Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young. The set featured the Phish debuts of Arc, Down By the River, Moonlight in Vermont, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and Uncloudy Day (although Will the Circle Be Unbroken was also played during the November 19, 1994 “Parking Lot Jam”). Trey teased Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Dave's Energy Guide in Runaway Jim. Neil Young sat in from Runaway Jim through the end of the set; Willie Nelson and Paul Shaffer sat in during Moonlight in Vermont through Uncloudy Day. Four Native American dancers came onstage before Will the Circle Be Unbroken. Circle featured Willie Nelson on vocals. Amazing Grace was performed for the first time since December 31, 1996 (115 shows) and included instrumental accompaniment. Trey teased 2001 in Uncloudy Day. This set was broadcast live on Country Music Television, though the beginning of Runaway Jim was cut from the broadcast.
It’s so stupendous, living in this tube
Bustouts and debuts are Phish.net’s gap on the row. Version rankings and “hot this year” are counted over the shows in THIS archive — not all of history until the backfill finishes — and lengths are phish.in’s timings. Rarities use Phish.net’s all-time play count; long odds are shows played since the song’s debut divided by its plays (see the rarity index on LizardStats).
- Down By the River · Set 119:04
- The Moma Dance · Set 110:59
- Runaway Jim · Set 110:35
- Birds of a Feather · Set 15:46
- Amazing Grace · Set 15:42
- Farmhouse · Set 15:22
Straight off the phish.in timings, longest first. What this can’t tell you yet is whether any of these is a big version — that needs each song’s own history to compare against, which is the next thing to pull in. After that: phish.in publishes a jam-start marker per track, so the composed section and the improvisation can be separated and measured properly. That’s what belongs in this tube.
When it debuted
Tonight’s songs by the era Phish first played them.
- ’90–’943
- ’95–’007
Album representation
The studio home of each song, hand-curated. Covers are one slice.
- Covers6
- The Story of the Ghost2
- Farmhouse1
- No studio album1
Gap since last played
Shows since each song’s previous appearance, per Phish.net. Far right is a bustout.
- 1–2 · rotation6
- 3–51
- 6–151
- 51+ · bustout2
Originals vs covers
Whose songbook tonight drew from.
- Phish original4
- Neil Young2
- Traditional2
- Blackburn and Suessdorf1
- The Staples Singers1
Who wrote it
Originals by writing credit; covers sit in their own slice.
- Cover6
- Full band2
- Anastasio + friends1
- Anastasio / Marshall1
The Marshall factor
Originals co-written with Tom Marshall vs the rest. Covers excluded.
- With Tom Marshall3
- Without Marshall1
6 songs not in the hand-curated file yet — counted where the data allows, named as unknown where it does not.