Song
Casey Jones
282 plays · 1969 – 1993
Stats
Peak year
1971
68 plays
Peak era
Transition
123 plays
Years in rotation
15
avg 18.9/yr
Usually
Set 1
72% of plays
Set 1 closer
35%
45 of 130
Set 2 closer
18%
23 of 130
Debuted
1969-06-22Last played
1993-03-27Album
Workingman’s Dead
1970
Written by
Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter
By decade
60s
31
70s
232
80s
17
90s
4
Often comes in from
- 10%Playing in the Band(20×)
- 9%Sugar Magnolia(18×)
- 7%Good Lovin'(14×)
Often leads into
- 8%Sugar Magnolia(13×)
- 7%Mama Tried(12×)
- 7%Me and My Uncle(12×)
Top-rated versions
By Curator Score across all shows that played Casey Jones.
Every time the Curator wrote about it
11 mentions across the listening journal.
Numbers show each show's Curator Score · how it works
Blistering Casey Jones for encore.
Unusually slow Casey Jones for encore.
Casey Jones for encore.
Bare bones Casey Jones has a lot of energy.
Great Casey Jones as well.
really solid Casey Jones but not as high octane as they ended up doing it later this decade.
Casey Jones encore.
One of the cleanest early Casey Jones you're gonna hear.
Wild bendy solo on early Casey Jones.
Plus they follow with Casey Jones to end the monster first set.
Smoking Casey Jones as the encore.
Listen to Casey Jones from 1978-12-31 — official release