SONG ORIGIN
Pickin' Up The Pieces
505lifetime playslive performances
June 26, 1991first played
July 24, 2026last played
Everydayappears on1993
Pickin’ Up The Pieces
"'Pickin' Up the Pieces' is another Mike song. Sure do miss the mandolin but Jojo's getting real good about playing keyboards instead. An unfulfillment kind of song, and interesting musically because the words are kind of sad, morose. And the music's kinda happy… ultimately it's uplifting because you're sweating out your words. Sweat 'em out, they're gone."
-Dave Schools
BY THE NUMBERS
Computed from every logged performance
- Frequency
- 1 in every 5.2 shows
- Longest drought
- 26 shows (10/21/23 > 02/16/25)
- Most common lead in
- Chilly Water (21 times)
- Most common lead out
- Henry Parsons Died (16 times)
- Most common set position
- Set 1, song 6 (48 times)
Appears on ‘Everyday’ (Matt Mundy on Mandolin); ‘Light Fuse Get Away'
Burnthday's Picks
- Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
- Harbor Lights Pavilion, Boston, MA
- Pickin’ Up The Pieces, Ames, IA