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Pickin' Up The Pieces — from Alex's original post

Pickin' Up The Pieces

One of Mike’s, and the trick is the mismatch: the words are morose and the music is happy. You sweat the words out, and then they are gone.

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

Frequency
1 in every 5.2 shows
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)

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