Country Archives on Instagram: "Vern Gosdin performing “Set ’Em Up Joe” live at the Ryman Auditorium in 1991. “Set ’Em Up Joe,” originally released in 1988 on Gosdin’s album Chiseled in Stone (note: double-check year depending on context — some sources tie its release to Alone in 1988), became one of his defining singles and a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song was written by Gosdin alongside Hank Cochran, Buddy Cannon, and Dean Dillon, and paid tribute to Ernest Tubb’s “W