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Featured performance
May 1, 1961
24 songs
Note: Exact date unknown. Unidentified coffeehouse
- Ramblin' Round
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
- It's Hard to Be Blind
- This Train Is Bound for Glory
- Talking Fish Blues
- Pastures of Plenty
- This Land Is Your Land
- Two Trains Runnin'
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- Howdido
- Car Song
- Don't Push Me Down
- Come See
- I Want My Milk
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- A Long Time A-Growin'
- Devilish Mary
- Railroad Bill
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
- Pretty Polly
- Railroad Boy
- James Alley Blues
- Why'd You Cut My Hair? (last song)
Also played on this date
- May 1, 1960 — Home of Karen Wallace — St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
- May 1, 1976 — Reed Green Coliseum — Hattiesburg, MS
- May 1, 2001 — Asheville Civic Center — Asheville, North Carolina, United States
- May 1, 2019 — Coliseu do Porto — Porto, Porto, Portugal
- May 1, 1991 — Township Auditorium — Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- May 1, 1992 — Pauline Davis Pavilion — Red Bluff, California, United States
- May 1, 2009 — Echo Arena — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
- May 1, 2013 — Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
- May 1, 2026 — Abilene Auditorium — Abilene, Texas, United States
- May 1, 1994 — Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri — Columbia, Missouri, United States
- May 1, 1996 — Mid-Hudson Civic Center — Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
- May 1, 1997 — Vanderburgh Auditorium — Evansville, Indiana, United States
- May 1, 1965 — Odeon Theatre — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
- May 1, 1980 — Kleinhans Music Hall — Buffalo, New York, United States
- May 1, 1999 — Silvretta Arena — Ischgl, Tyrol, Austria
- May 1, 1966 — KB Hallen — Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
- May 1, 1959 — Home of Ric Kangas — Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
- May 1, 1969 — The Johnny Cash Show — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- May 1, 1962 — Gerde's Folk City — New York, New York, United States