SONG ORIGIN
Contentment Blues
271lifetime playslive performances
??/??/87first played
July 21, 2026last played
Miss Kitty's Loungeappears on2022
Widespread Panic’s Raves and Faves http://www.relix.com/features/2011/08/19/widespread-panic-s-raves-and-faves?1
"[My favorite song is] almost always one we’ve really truly raised from the ground up collectively. An old tune that reflects that is “Contentment Blues.” We were all sitting around and wrote that thing in the kitchen together. “Papa’s Home” was written the same way."
-John Bell
BY THE NUMBERS
Computed from every logged performance
- Frequency
- 1 in every 11.4 shows
- Longest drought
- 162 shows (06/28/02 > 05/01/05)
- Most common lead in
- Chilly Water (21 times)
- Most common lead out
- Chilly Water (22 times)
- Most common set position
- Encore 1, song 1 (25 times)
Appears on 'Space Wrangler'
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