Riley Green Setlist 2026 — Songs, Order & Running Time

Riley Green setlist — songs, song order and run time

A current Riley Green setlist runs twenty to twenty-three songs across a deliberate 90 to 105 minutes with no intermission and no backing tracks, and the run order is built around four guaranteed singalongs that every Ain't My Last Rodeo Tour night routes through. "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" — the deeply personal song Green wrote about losing his grandfathers Bufford and Lendon Green off the 2018 Different 'Round Here EP and the most-streamed track in his catalogue — anchors the acoustic mid-set block of the main set and gets the longest reaction of the night on most current legs, sung back at Green with full-room emotional weight on a deliberately spare acoustic arrangement (just Green's vocals and an acoustic guitar with the band laying back). "Worst Way" — the title track off the 2024 Ain't My Last Rodeo album and Green's first solo No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart — typically lands two-thirds into the main set as the country-rock anchor of the back half. "There Was This Girl" — the 2018 debut single off the Different 'Round Here EP that climbed to the country radio top five and made Green a CMT Listen Up artist of the year before his debut full-length had even shipped — lands in the early-set hit run a third of the way through the night and gets the first guaranteed full-room singalong. "Different 'Round Here" — the 2023 Luke Combs co-write and crossover smash off Combs's Gettin' Old album — sits two-thirds into the main set as the country-rock arrangement that opened the door for Green's stadium-supporting and amphitheater-headlining cap; Combs walks on as the surprise guest on the routing nights both artists are in the same market. The typical structure is a 90-to-105-minute main set with no intermission, no choreography and no backing tracks — Green fronts a tight seven-piece road band (dual electric guitars, pedal steel, bass, drums, fiddle and keyboards) and works the catalogue front-to-back with country-rock arrangements pushed up in the mix. Encore is typically a single track — "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" if he closed on a country-rock cut, or a Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels Band or Randy Travis cover when the city pulls for it. Check setlist.fm after the first night of any new Ain't My Last Rodeo Tour leg for the current night-by-night run order — fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of last call.

Riley Green 2026 Tour Setlist Structure

Riley Green, the American country act, currently has 18 confirmed live dates — the most recent routing points at Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, so the song order below reflects how country headline sets of this size are typically paced.

Recent Riley Green concerts have averaged between 18 and 24 songs spread across roughly 90 to 120 minutes of performance time (excluding opener). The shows typically follow this rough structure:

1. Opener (song 1 to 2). A high-energy hit to set the tone.
2. Hit block (song 3 to 7). A run of the most-streamed singles.
3. Acoustic / storytelling moment (song 8 to 10). Stripped-back arrangements and banter.
4. Deep-cut set (song 11 to 15). Fan favorites and newer album tracks.
5. Peak run (song 16 to 20). The dancefloor anthems and biggest singalongs.
6. Encore (song 21 to 24). A 2 to 3 song encore featuring the signature closer.

Does the Riley Green Setlist Change Night to Night?

The core of the Riley Green 2026 setlist — the singles and the staging — stays consistent across the tour so production cues work from night to night. Smaller changes (a deep cut swap, a city-specific cover, or an acoustic surprise) happen on some nights. For the exact setlist from a specific Riley Green show, check fan-submitted setlists on Setlist.fm after the concert.

Riley Green Setlist — FAQ

About Riley Green

Riley Duckman Green was born October 18, 1988 in Jacksonville, Alabama — a small Calhoun County town an hour northeast of Birmingham off I-59 — and raised in the same town across multiple generations of his family. His maternal grandfather Bufford Green ran a local mechanic shop, and his paternal grandfather Lendon Green was a small-town musician and bluegrass picker who taught Riley to play the guitar before he hit double digits; both grandfathers feature heavily in the songwriting on Green's catalogue and the 2018 single "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" was written explicitly about losing them. Green played football at Jacksonville High School and walked on as a quarterback at Jacksonville State University, the same school where Combs played for the Mountain Lions before transferring out — Green's senior college season ended with him moving into the family construction business and working full-time on residential framing jobs around the Birmingham-Anniston corridor. He started playing Wednesday-night writer rounds at Mama's on Main Street and the Pig in Jacksonville on weekends through the early 2010s, posted rough demos to YouTube and Facebook through 2013 and 2014, and moved to Nashville full-time in 2016 after a self-released EP started pulling regional streams through the Alabama and Georgia bar circuit.

Big Machine Records — the Nashville label home of Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line, Brantley Gilbert and Tim McGraw at various points in its history — signed Green to its Nashville Harbor imprint in 2017 after CEO Scott Borchetta caught a Bluebird Cafe round where Green played "There Was This Girl" and "Bury Me in Dixie". The debut Different 'Round Here EP arrived in 2018 with "There Was This Girl" as the lead single; the song climbed to the country radio top five inside six months and made Green a CMT Listen Up artist of the year before his debut full-length had even shipped. The full-length Different 'Round Here followed in 2019 with "In Love by Now" and "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" extending the radio run; the Behind the Bar EP arrived in 2022 with the country-rock arrangements that defined Green's catalogue moving forward. The Luke Combs co-write and co-feature "Different 'Round Here" — released in June 2023 as a single off Combs's Gettin' Old album — became one of the year's biggest country radio and streaming crossovers, helped push Green into stadium-supporting slots on Combs's World Tour routing, and built the audience that made the 2024 sophomore solo album Ain't My Last Rodeo a top-five debut on Billboard Country Albums. "Worst Way" — the title track off Ain't My Last Rodeo and Green's first solo No. 1 on Billboard Country Airplay — sealed the headliner status; "Damn Good Day to Leave" followed it through the radio rotation as the second single. The ACM New Male Artist of the Year award (2020), three CMA nominations across New Artist and Music Video categories, Big Machine Records label loyalty through every contract cycle, the recurring direct-support slot on Luke Combs's World Tour, a sold-out Ain't My Last Rodeo Tour amphitheater leg and the country-rock crossover identity Green has built since the Different 'Round Here debut have put him at the front of his generation of male country-rock headliners.

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