Gene Watson

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American country music singer.
Born in October 11, 1943 Palestine, Texas.
Watson was one of seven children of a sawmill worker and crop picker.
He's charted 48 times between 1975 and 1997 on the U.S. country charts. His first big hit came in 1975 with "Love In The Hot Afternoon, which hit #3. His first #1 came in 1981 with " Fourteen Carat Mind"; "You're Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without" hitting #2 in 1983. All in all, he had twenty top 10 country hits.
The Farewell Party Band is his long-time backing band.

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Fourteen Carat Mind

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Farewell Party

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Love In The Hot Afternoon

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Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go

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I Never Go Around Mirrors

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20 live performances ยท data from Setlist.fm

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February 7, 2026

Rome City Auditorium

Rome, Georgia, United States

  • 1. Love in the Hot Afternoon

  • 2. I Don't Need a Thing at All

  • 3. No One Will Ever Know

  • 4. Between This Time And The Next Time

  • 5. Everything I Used to Do

  • 6. Got No Reason Now for Goin' Home

  • 7. Bedroom Ballad

  • 8. Memories to Burn

  • 9. For the Good Times(Kris Kristofferson cover)

  • 10. Everybody Needs a Hero

  • 11. Paper Rosie

  • 12. This Dream's on Me

  • 13. What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her

  • 14. I'll Find It Where I Can

  • 15. If I Had Any Pride Left at All

  • 16. Where No One Stands Alone

  • 17. Fourteen Carat Mind

  • 18. Farewell Party


January 31, 2026

Grand Ole Opry House

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

  • 1. Fourteen Carat Mind

  • 2. Farewell Party


January 30, 2026

Cookeville Performing Arts Center

Cookeville, Tennessee, United States

  • 1. Love in the Hot Afternoon

  • 2. Speak Softly (You're Talking to My Heart)

  • 3. No One Will Ever Know

  • 4. Between This Time And The Next Time

  • 5. Everything I Used to Do

  • 6. Got No Reason Now for Goin' Home

  • 7. Bedroom Ballad

  • 8. Memories to Burn

  • 9. For the Good Times(Kris Kristofferson cover)

  • 10. Everybody Needs a Hero

  • 11. Paper Rosie

  • 12. This Dream's on Me

  • 13. What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her

  • 14. I'll Find It Where I Can

  • 15. If I Had Any Pride Left at All

  • 16. I Don't Need a Thing at All

  • 17. Where No One Stands Alone

  • 18. Fourteen Carat Mind

  • 19. Farewell Party


January 17, 2026

Orange Blossom Opry

Weirsdale, Florida, United States


January 16, 2026

Orange Blossom Opry

Weirsdale, Florida, United States

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