Gov’t Mule celebrated Halloween weekend with a three-night run that kicked off on Thursday at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, CT, before bringing the Mule-O-Ween festivities to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

The band opened the weekend with a diverse setlist featuring covers ranging from Al Green‘s “I’m A Ram” to The Band‘s “Stage Fright”, closing the evening with “Fallen Down” and an instrumental “The Other One” jam in the encore slot.

Halloween night at D.C.’s Warner Theatre saw Gov’t Mule channel Aerosmith as its musical costume for the second set, which was dedicated to legendary Philadelphia rock radio host Pierre Robert, who passed away on Wednesday. Mule worked chronologically through Aerosmith’s catalog, opening with tracks from the band’s 1973 self-titled debut before moving into material from 1974’s Get Your Wings.

Dirty Honey vocalist Marc LaBelle joined in for the set’s second half, contributing vocals on “Back In The Saddle”, “Last Child”, “Sweet Emotion”, “Dream On”, and “Walk This Way”. The band closed the Aerosmith set with “Mama Kin” before encoring with blues standard “The Train Kept A-Rollin'”—a song covered by Aerosmith and last performed by Gov’t Mule in 2018.

The following night at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House, Gov’t Mule reprised the entire Aerosmith set in the second half of the show, this time welcoming Living Colour‘s Corey Glover on vocals for the same run of classics LaBelle had performed. The band again closed with “The Train Kept A-Rollin'” to cap both the weekend’s festivities and the final night of Gov’t Mule’s Back In The Saddle Tour.

Check out fan-shot videos from both Mule-O-Ween shows, scroll down for the full setlists, and click below to view a gallery of photos from New Haven courtesy of photographer David Gray.

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Gov’t Mule – Warner Theatre – Washington, D.C. – 10/31/25 [Set 1]

[Video: John Hicks]

Gov’t Mule – Warner Theatre – Washington, D.C. – 10/31/25 [Set 2 – Aerosmith Set Ft. Marc LaBelle]

[Video: John Hicks]

Gov’t Mule – Metropolitan Opera House – Philadelphia, PA – 11/1/25 [Set 1]

[Video: Joe Stoever]

Gov’t Mule – Metropolitan Opera House – Philadelphia, PA – 11/1/25 [Set 2 – Aerosmith Set Ft. Corey Glover]

[Video: Joe Stoever]

Setlist: Gov’t Mule | College Street Music Hall | New Haven, CT | 10/30/25
Set 1: Slackjaw Jezebel, After The Storm, I’m A Ram (Al Green), Banks Of The Deep End, Hottentot (John Scofield), Beautifully Broken, Shake Your Way Out, Monkey Hill, Soulshine (The Allman Brothers Band)
Set 2: 32/20 Blues (Robert Johnson), Fool’s Moon, Larger Than Life, Stage Fright (The Band), Gone Too Long, Doing It To Death (The J.B.’s), Thorazine Shuffle, Mule > I’ve Been Working (Van Morrison) > Mule
Encore: Fallen Down > The Other One Jam

Setlist: Gov’t Mule | Warner Theatre | Washington, D.C. | 10/31/25
Set 1: Same as It Ever Was, Rocking Horse, Peace I Need, Devil Likes It Slow, Lay Your Burden Down, Unring the Bell, Endless Parade, Game Face, Time to Confess
Set 2 (“Aerosmith” costume): Make It, Walking the Dog (Rufus Thomas), Lord of the Thighs, Same Old Song and Dance, Seasons of Wither, Back in the Saddle (with Marc Labelle), Last Child (with Marc Labelle), Sweet Emotion (with Marc Labelle), Dream On (with Marc Labelle), Walk This Way (with Marc Labelle), Mama Kin
Encore: The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw) (first time since 2018)

Setlist: Gov’t Mule | Metropolitan Opera House | Philadelphia, PA | 11/1/25
Set 1: Bad Little Doggie, Blind Man in the Dark, About to Rage, Dreaming Out Loud, The River Only Flows One Way, Sco-Mule, Captured, Revolution Come, Revolution Go, Mule
Set 2: Make It (Aerosmith), Walking the Dog (Rufus Thomas), Lord of the Thighs (Aerosmith), Same Old Song and Dance (Aerosmith), Seasons of Wither (Aerosmith), Back in the Saddle (Aerosmith) (with Corey Glover), Last Child (Aerosmith) (with Corey Glover), Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith) (with Corey Glover), Dream On (Aerosmith) (with Corey Glover), Walk This Way (Aerosmith) (with Corey Glover), Mama Kin (Aerosmith)
Encore: The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw)