SONG ORIGIN
The Take Out
366lifetime playslive performances
August 22, 1987first played
July 25, 2026last played
Space Wranglerappears on1988
"Take Out" is an instrumental, so lyrically it's hard to attach a title to it: you have to sort of formulate a visual image. A take out is a place on the shore where you pull your canoe out of the water or put it into the water... And uh, Mike's dad is one of those people who -- I think they even made a National Geographic Explorer thing about his group. They do a lot of whitewater canoeing and rafting and exploring and adventuring. And [Mike] just thought about his dad, [and] being on the river, when he wrote that song.
-Dave Schools
BY THE NUMBERS
Computed from every logged performance
- Frequency
- 1 in every 8.4 shows
- Longest drought
- 152 shows (05/27/89 > 06/16/90)
- Most common lead in
- Love Tractor (15 times)
- Most common lead out
- Porch Song (233 times)
- Most common set position
- Set 1, song 1 (77 times)
Appears on 'Space Wrangler'
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