While Phish was raging down at 32nd and 8th, Gov’t Mule was having a party of their own on the Upper West Side (74th and Broadway) on New Year’s Eve. Mule capped off a two-night run at the Beacon Theater with a couple of friends and an absolute monster setlist.

The Mule has historically put on a musical costume for NYE at the Beacon. This year, they structured the setlist around a transportation theme. Six of the songs they played had “train” in the title and that doesn’t include songs that heavily feature trains like the Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones.” Warren and company also through in a variety of other traveling tunes including Jeff Beck’s “Freeway Jam,” Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath” and The Door’s “Roadhouse Blues.”

Never one to deliver a skimpy show, Gov’t Mule posted a 37 song setlist to help ring in the new year! To help them with the classic rock songbook second set, the Mule was joined by Jackie Greene and Shawn Pelton. Later during the encore, Warren welcome Jimmy Vivino and Corky Lang to help out on some tunes to close out the show.

Set I
01) Broke Down On The Brazos >
02) Tributary Jam
03) Banks Of The Deep End
04) Rocking Horse
05) Fools Moon
06) Railroad Boy
07) When The World Gets Small with In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed tease
08) Bad Little Doggie
09) Blind Man In The Dark >
10) Hear My Train A Coming >
11) Blind Man In The Dark
12) Bring On The Music

Set II
13) Traveling Tune >
14) Highway Star
15) Silver Train
16) Wiser Time
17) Two Trains
18) Trane
19) Tuesdays Gone >
20) Auld Lang Syne >
21) Casey Jones
22) Stop That Train
23) Runnin Down A Dream
24) End Of The Line
25) Seven Turns
26) Ramblin Man
27) Locomotive Breath
28) Roadhouse Blues
29) Train Kept A Rollin
30) Traveling Man >
31) Beautiful Loser
32) Traveling Tune Reprise

33) Encore Break
34) Crossroader > @
35) Drums >
36) Freeway Jam @#
37) It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry #
38) Key To The Highway @#

Entire 2nd set with Jackie Greene and Shawn Pelton
With Jimmy Vivino
@ With Corky Lang

Thanks to johnt569 for the recording.

Photo credit: ericgettlerphotography