Ella Langley Athens Setlist & Recap: The Dandelion Tour at Akins Ford Arena

The Dandelion Tour pulled into Athens on Friday night, and Ella Langley took over Akins Ford Arena at The Classic Center with Kameron Marlowe and Laci Kaye Booth on the bill — a mid-sized room, a Georgia crowd two nights removed from her Oxford stop, and a setlist that leaned hard on the covers and the collabs. This one we've got song-by-song: a verified list posted to setlist.fm from the floor, so what's below is the real Athens order, not the standard tour shape.

She opened cold on "Dandelion," the title track, and went straight into "I Gotta Quit" and "Bottom of Your Boots" before the first curveball — a cover of "I Can't Love You Anymore," the Morgan Wallen song she's featured on, dropped in at the four-spot. From there it was a night of Ella hits stitched together with cover after cover, five in all.

Ella Langley Athens setlist (September 18, 2026)

1. Dandelion
2. I Gotta Quit
3. Bottom of Your Boots
4. I Can't Love You Anymore (Morgan Wallen cover)
5. Girl You're Taking Home
6. 20-20
7. You and Me Time
8. Here for the Party (Gretchen Wilson cover)
9. Last Call for Us
10. Broken
11. Somethin' Simple
12. Butterfly Season
13. Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)
14. Strangers (Kameron Marlowe cover)
15. Be Her
16. you look like you love me
17. Loving Life Again
18. Choosin' Texas
19. weren't for the wind
20. Wish I Didn't Know Now (Toby Keith cover)
21. That's Why We Fight

(Order per the verified setlist.fm capture from Athens. If the venue tacked on anything past "That's Why We Fight," we'll update.)

The moments

Five covers is a lot for a headline set, and Athens got the full spread: Gretchen Wilson's "Here for the Party" as a mid-set jolt, Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" heading into the home stretch, and Toby Keith's "Wish I Didn't Know Now" late — a nice nod tucked in near the end. "Strangers," the Kameron Marlowe duet, landed at number 14 with her opener presumably back out for it; that's been the reliable guest spot on this run.

The back half is the reason you buy the ticket. "Be Her" into "you look like you love me" — the Riley Green duet that broke her wide open — into "Loving Life Again" and then "Choosin' Texas" is a murderer's row, and "Choosin' Texas" has spent most of 2026 parked near the top of the Hot 100, so the Athens floor almost certainly sang the whole thing back at her. She closed on "That's Why We Fight," the Koe Wetzel collab, the same encore-caliber gut-punch she's been ending on all fall.

Were you there?

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Next up: Jacksonville, FL (September 19)

No days off — Ella's straight down to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, September 19, with Kameron Marlowe and Laci Kaye Booth along again. If you're anywhere near the First Coast, grab tickets and set details on the Jacksonville tour page.

Want more? Read the story behind Choosin' Texas, the single that's owned this year — and if you're pulling together your own concert fit, our Arena Night picks are built for exactly this kind of room.