The Country Tour

The Country Tour refers to two series of live dates as performed by Ween. The first of which, a handful of shows taking place immediately following the release of 12 Golden Country Greats, is more of a warm up, which is followed then by a 21 date tour of the USA in October of 1996.

Tour

Leg One

The first "Leg" of shows to promote the 12 Golden Country Greats album is actually more like 3 close one off shows plus a a short tour of "The Jimmy Wilson Group." The first show, taking place on June 21st, 1996, featured Gene and Dean playing a show with their DAT machine as backing. This was then followed nearly a month later with two shows in one night at Tramps, New York, with a six-piece backing band made up of the session players hired for the 12 Golden Country Greats album. Likely due to both the fact that these were two shows in one day, and the fact that they had a larger backing band that needed to learn material, there is little variation in the two July 19th shows.

The tour also saw Ween playing several then-unreleased songs, such as "Booze Me Up and Get Me High," "I'll Be Your Jonny on the Spot" & "Waving My Dick in the Wind."

• June 21st, 1996: Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands (No backing band)
• July 19th, 1996: Tramps, New York, NY, USA
• July 19th, 1996: Tramps, New York, NY, USA
• July 23rd, 1996: John and Peter's, New Hope, PA, USA (As Jimmy Wilson Group)
• July 25th, 1996: Princeton, NJ, USA (As Jimmy Wilson Group)
• July 26th, 1996: The Saint, Asbury Park, NJ, USA (As Jimmy Wilson Group)

Backing Bands

• Ween: Bobby Ogdin (piano), Stu Basore (pedal steel), Danny Parks (guitar), Robin Jacobs(?) (fiddle), Matt Kohut (bass), Jon Gardner (drums)
• Jimmy Wilson Group: Chris Harford, Bill Fowler (guitar), Claude Coleman Jr (drums), Cribber (Bass)

Ween Common Songs (Played More Than Once, songs in bold played at all shows)

• Big Jilm
• Booze Me Up and Get Me High
• Fluffy
• Freedom of '76
• Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain
• I Don't Want to Leave You on the Farm
• I Saw Gener Cryin' in His Sleep
• I'll Be Your Jonny on the Spot
• I'm Holding You
• Japanese Cowboy / Chariots of Fire
• Mister Richard Smoker
• Piss Up a Rope
• Poopship Destroyer
• Powder Blue
• Pretty Girl
• Push th' Little Daisies
• Waving My Dick in the Wind
• What Deaner Was Talkin' About
• You Were the Fool

Jimmy Wilson Group Common Songs (Played more than Once)

• Big Jilm
• Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead cover)
• Into the Universe
• Jimmy Wilson Theme
• Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
• The Rift

Leg Two

• October 4th, 1996: 328 Performance Hall, Nashville, TN, USA
• October 5th, 1996: The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA, USA
• October 6th, 1996: House of Blues, New Orleans, LA, USA
• October 8th, 1996: Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX, USA
• October 10th, 1996: Electric Ballroom, Tempe, AZ, USA (Doo Rag opened)
• October 11th, 1996: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, USA (Excerpt released on Paintin' the Town Brown, opening for Beck)
• October 12th, 1996: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA
• October 13th, 1996: La Luna, Portland, OR, USA
• October 14th, 1996: Showbox, Seattle, WA, USA
• October 16th, 1996: Club DV8, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
• October 17th, 1996: Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO, USA (Doo Rag opened)
• October 19th, 1996: Granada Theater, Lawrence, KS, USA (Doo Rag opened)
• October 20th, 1996: First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN, USA
• October 21st, 1996: Metro, Chicago, IL, USA
• October 22nd, 1996: Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit, MI, USA
• October 23rd, 1996: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada (Show later released as Live in Toronto Canada)
• October 25th, 1996: The Middle East, Cambridge, MA, USA
• October 26th, 1996: Tramps, New York, NY, USA (Doo Rag opened)
• October 26th, 1996: Tramps, New York, NY, USA (Doo Rag opened)
• October 27th, 1996: Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• October 28th, 1996: 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, USA (Excerpt released on Paintin' the Town Brown, Doo Rag opened)

Common Songs (played more than 10 times, songs in bold played at all shows)

• Baby Bitch
• Big Jilm
• Buenas Tardes Amigo
• Doctor Rock
• Don't Shit Where You Eat
• Fluffy
• Freedom of '76
• Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain
• I Can't Put My Finger on It
• I Saw Gener Cryin' in His Sleep
• I'll Be Your Jonny on the Spot
• I'm Holding You
• Japanese Cowboy / Chariots of Fire (Vangelis cover)
• Mister Richard Smoker
• Piss Up a Rope
• Poopship Destroyer
• Pretty Girl
• Pumpin' 4 the Man
• Push th' Little Daisies
• Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
• The Stallion pt 3
• Waving My Dick in the Wind
• What Deaner Was Talkin' About

The setlists on the Country Tour were relatively consistent in the songs they featured, with each show only featuring a handful of outliers.

Backing Band (The Shit Creek Boys)

• Claude Coleman Jr (Drums), Bobby Ogdin (piano), Stu Basore (pedal steel), Danny Parks (guitar), Hank Singer (fiddle), Matt Kohut (bass)