Fav Songs to Cover

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Permalink Reply by grant on January 19, 2009 at 5:34pm

my set list...LOL here goes, not sure if there is enough room here for it all...thanks for posting by the way
A whiter shade of pale...Harum
Across the great divide...Kate Wolf
Act naturally...Owens
After Midnight...Cline
After midnight...J.J. Cale
Against the wind...Seager
Ain't no sunshine...WIthers
Air that I breath...
Alcohol and pills...Snyder
All along the watch tower...Dylan
Alliteration...Eversoll
Already made up her mind...Lovett
Always on my mind...Nelson
American Pie...McLean
Amie...P.P.League
Angel from Montgomery...Prine
Another Saturday night...Stevens
Authority song...Mellencamp
Back home again...Denver
Bad moon raising...CCR
Bad Bad Leroy Brown...Corce
Bad moon raising...CCR
Bakers street...Raferty
Banana Republic...Goodman
Bears...Lovett
Big City...Haggard
Big yellow taxie...Mitchel
Big ol' goofy world...Prine
Bird on a wire...Cohen
Blowin in the wind...Dylan
Blue on Black...KWS
Blues eyes cryin'...Nelson
Bottle of wine....
Break up song...Khinn
Brown eyed girl...Morrison
Can't you see...M.T.Band
Cannon ball...Rice
Car songs...ZZ top
Centerfield...Forgerty
Cherry Bomb...Melloncamp
Chevy van...Sammy Johns
City of neworleans...Goodman
Closing time....
Cocaine...D. Van Ronk
Coffee...Eversoll
Coming down in the rain...mondlock
Comming into Los Angeles...Guthrie
Cover of the rolling stones...Dr.Hook
Cowboy rides away...Stright
Cowgirl in the sand...Young
Crazy...Nelson
Crossroads...Johnson
Cuts like a knife...B.Adams
Danny's song...Loggins
Dead Flowers...Stones/TVZ
Dear Abby...Prine
Deja Vu...Fogerty
Dirty work...S.Dan
Dock of the bay...Ottis Redding
Don't bury me...Prine
Don't bury me...Prine
Down on the corner...CCR
Downbound train...Springsteen
Drift away...Mentor Willams
Dumas Walker...KY. Headhunters
Dust in the wind...Kansas
Early Morning rain...Lightfoot
Edmund Fitzgerald...Lightfoot
Eight days a week...Beatles
End of the line...Wilburys
Every rose has it's thorn...posion
Far away eyes...Stones
Fire and rain...Taylor
Flyin' shoes....Van zant
Fortunate Son...Fogerty
Free bird...Skynard
Friend of the devil...Dead
Get the urge...Rice
Get a hair cut...Thorogood
Ghost...Eversoll
Give me one reason...Chapman
Glory Days...Springsteen
Gone so long...Rice
Grandma got run over by a raindeer
Hallehuja...Choen
Harvest moon...Young
Harvest...Young
Heart of Gold...Young
Heavens door...Dylan
Hello in there...Prine
Help me make it through the night...Nelson
Hey Delilah...
Hey Good looking...Williams
Horse with no name...America
Hotel California...Egales
House at pooh corner...Loggins
House of the raising sun...Ledbally
I saw her standing there...Beatles
I shot the sherriff...Marley
I can see clearly now...Nash
I hear you knockin...Dave edmunds
I love this bar...Keith
I'm so lonesome I could cry...Williams
I've just seen a face...Beatles
If I were a carpenter....Tim Harden/Bobbie darren
If I had a pony...Lovett
Illegal Smile...Prine
In my own mind...Lovett
Into the dark...
It don't come easy...Starr
It never rains in Southern California...Hammond
It's a great day to whup somebodies ass...Paul Thorn
Jack and Diane...Mellencamp
Jackie Brown...Mellencamp
Jet plane...Denver
Joe's Garage...Zappa
Just a song before I go.....CN
Kansas City...
Landslide...Nicks
Last thing on my mind...Paxton
Last Kiss...
Lay down sally...Clapton
Layla...Clapton
Leader of the band...Fogelberg
Learning to fly...Petty
Levon...John
Like a hurricane...Young
Listen to the radio...Griffen
Live forever...Highwaymen
Lodi...CCR
Lola...Kinks
Lonely People...America
Long black veil...Trad
Long time ago...Eversoll
Long December...Counting Crows
Losing my religion...REM
Louie Louie....Berry
Lover's cross...croce
Loves me like a rock...Simmon
Lucky man...ELP
Lyin' Eyes..Eagles
Mad World...Gary Jules
Maggie May...Stewart
Maggies Farm...Dylan
Man on the moon...REM
Margaritaville...Buffet
Marie...TZV
Mary Jane's last dance...Petty
Mellow Yellow...Donovan
Memphis Tennessee....Berry
Mercedes Benz...Joplin
Midnight rider...Brothers
Midnight Special...Ledbelly
Moddy River...Boone
Morning has broken...Stevens
Mother...Floyd
Mothers little helper...Stones
Move it on over...Williams
Mr. Weatherman...Williams
Mrs. Robinson...Simon and Garfunkle
Mustang Sally...W. Picket
Neddle and damage done...Young
New shoes...Nutina
Night moves...Seager
Nights in white satin...Blues
No particular place to go...Berry
Nothing but time...Brown
Ob-La-Di...Beatles
Ode to billy joe....Bobby Gentry
Oh Lonesome Me...Gibson
Old man...Young
Old Hippie...B.Brothers
One good year...
One hand in my pocket...Osbourn
One of us..Osboen
One...U2
Only 16...Dr. John
Operator...Croce
Pancho and Lefty...TVZ
Paradise...Prine
Peaceful easy feeling...Eagles
Peaceful World...Mellencamp
Perfectly good guitar...Haitt
Pink Houses...Mellencamp
Please come to Boston...Loggins
Poor Poor Pitiful me..Zevon
Proud Mary...CCR
Puff the magic dragon....PPM
Rainbows...M. Haggert
Ramblin' Man...A. Brothers
Red house...Hendirx
Ride Captain ride...Blues Image
Riders on the storm...Doors
Ridin' the storm out...REO
Rocket man...E.John
Rockin' in the free world...Young
Rocky Raccoon...Beatles
Rocky top...Bryan
Roller derby queen...Croce
Runnin' down a dream...Petty
Same stone...Prine
Sand Man ...America
Santa Clauz
Santa clause ic coming to town
Saturday Morning...Chapin
Scarecrow...Mellencamp
She came in through the bathroom window...Beatles
She hates me....
She's no lady...Lovett
Shelter from the storm...Dylan
Shooting star...B. Company
Should have known better...n.Creek
Simple man...Skynard
Sister golden haie...America
Small town...Mellomcamp
Solitary man...Diamond
Some humans ain't human...Prine
Someday...Mellencamp
Son of a sailor...Buffet
Souvenirs...Prine
Speak to me...Eversoll
Speed of the sound of loneliness...Griffen
Spirt in the sky...Greenbaum
Squeeze box...Who
Stand by me...Ben E King
Steamroller...Taylor
Still the same...Seager
stuck in the middle...Steelers wheel
Sugar Mountain...Young
Summer time...Gershwin
Sundown...Lightfoot
Sunshine...Edwards
Sweet Baby James...Taylor
Sweet Home Alabama...Skynard
Take me home...M. Brousshrd
Tangled up in blue...Dylan
Tecumseh valley...TVZ
Tequila sunrise...Eagles
That's the kind of friend you've got...
That's the way the world goes round..Prine
The fog...Eversoll
The No, No song...Starr
The accident...J Prine
The Bama Breeze...Buffett
The Jack...AC/DC
The weight...The band
The one I love...REM
The road...Brown
The Letter...Thomson
The one I love...Gray
The way it is...Hornsby
The first cut is the deepest...Stevens
Thinking about you...N. Jones
Time of your life...Green day
Time for me to fly...REO
turn the page...Seager
Under the boardwalk...The Drifters
Ventura Highway...America
Wake up little suzzie....Bryant
Walk Softly...KY. Headhunters
Wanted dead or alive...Bon Jovi
Where are the going...
Where did you go...Dan Thomas
Whistle once for harry...Eversoll
White freightliner...TVZ
White Rabbit...Airplane
Who'll stop the rain...CCR
Why don't we do it in the road...Beatles
Wild horses...Stones
Wild world...Stevens
Wish you were here...Floyd
Womder wall...Rayn Adams
Wonderful...CLapton
Woodstock...Mitchel
Workin' at the carwash blues...Croce
Working Class Hero...Lenon
You are so Beautiful...Coocker
You can't always get what you want...Stones
You can't rollerskate...Miller
You'll never leave Harlen alive...Lovess
You're beautiful...Blunt
You've got to hide your love away...Beatles
Your moma don't dance...Loggins
Your life is now...Mellencamp
Scare easy
Free fallin
Broadway
Old laughing lady
Helpless
Truth
fire
I'm on fire
Love to be your last
Shape of a heart
Steal your kisses
Moon Dance
Bobbie McGee
Worst day since yesterday
Mrs. Potters Lullaby
one more suicide

Permalink Reply by grant on January 19, 2009 at 5:35pm

P.S. If your wondering that's about 9 hours worth of songs

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Christopher on January 19, 2009 at 7:35pm

Thanks! Good stuff here -- A song at a time... a song at a time...

grant said:

P.S. If your wondering that's about 9 hours worth of songs

Permalink Reply by Robert Mattson on January 24, 2009 at 7:06am

Hey Grant! Do you use a book or is all that music in your head? If it's in your head I bow to you. ;-)

-Rob

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Christopher on January 25, 2009 at 6:53pm

+1 here if you've got all them memorized!

Robert Mattson said:

Hey Grant! Do you use a book or is all that music in your head? If it's in your head I bow to you. ;-)

-Rob

Permalink Reply by grant on January 26, 2009 at 7:25pm

Once long ago...before the 70's hit I could remember them, they're in a book

Permalink Reply by Edward Sparks on January 27, 2009 at 2:58pm

Wow Grant,
That's alotta songs! I see some of my favorites to perform on that list too!
I do originals as often as possible when I play Coffeehouses, but I do a fair amount of cover tunes myself.
Some of my favorites are ( I have a videos of me doing some of these live on my webstie at: http://mysite.verizon.net/emsparks/video/video.htm)
"Ain't No Sunshine"
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Watching the River Run"
"I've Just seen a Face"
"Coconut Song" (Harry Neilson)
"Operator"
"Come Back Baby Blues" (1936 Blues)
"Hide Your Love Away"

Thanks for making this post!!!
Edward

http://mysite.verizon.net/emsparks/video/video.htm

Permalink Reply by Michael Fredde on February 3, 2009 at 12:38pm

Right now I only hae 4 cover songs that I know. I use to know a lot more, but like Grant age has taken its toll on my memory. The four that I use most often, or actually 5 when I think about it, are House of the Rising Sun, Blowin in the Wind, If You Could Read My Mind, You and Me, and my all time favorite Despirado. I do want to learn some more, but I find myself drawn to the ones that were hot when I was young so it is a challenge to learn some of the newer stuff to.

Permalink Reply by Jonathan Christopher on February 3, 2009 at 12:44pm

So I am amazed at the # of songs folks know, but am curious... A number of you mentioned difficulties with memory in advanced age (I will approach that one day... am 40 now) -- So what do you all do in performance? Do you use sheets on a music stand or something, just in case a senior moment hits? I am always amazed at artists I see that can perform complete sets from memory -- but then those are mostly artists singing their own "hits" from their CDs. But still -- what do you all do to cope?

Permalink Reply by grant on February 3, 2009 at 5:52pm

I have a stand with a 3 ring binder, unless it is a song I have not done in a while, the music (Lyrics and chords) are just a crutch, I flip through see a song I want to play and hit it. Sometimes I look at the music other times I don't.

I preform in a tourist town and you never know what age or type of people might be there.
Lately I have been starting with "That's the way the world goes round", by John Prine...then I test the water, Example Sunday a couple in their 50's walked in, I played "Please come to Boston"...nothing I did "Rainbows", By Hagret...nothing, I did "On Broadway" (Neil young's version) ...that worked...Summertime by Gershwin, worked also...Mrs. Robinson also worked and that ended all of the "Songs from Movies" that I knew, I tried Heavens door, but I guess they had never seen "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"...As the philosopher Ricky Nelson once said, "You can't please everyone so you got to please yourself"...SO I played what I wanted to the rest of the time they were there, I still got a tip so I guess it worked.

In other words, I am forced (Somewhat) to play to/for the crowd I can't really work of of a set "Set list" because I never know who will be there or what they might like.

My stand is low and off to the side, I don't hide behind it...Hell if Brooks and Dunn can preform with a tela-prompter, I can use a music stand...LOL

Jonathan Christopher said:

So I am amazed at the # of songs folks know, but am curious... A number of you mentioned difficulties with memory in advanced age (I will approach that one day... am 40 now) -- So what do you all do in performance? Do you use sheets on a music stand or something, just in case a senior moment hits? I am always amazed at artists I see that can perform complete sets from memory -- but then those are mostly artists singing their own "hits" from their CDs. But still -- what do you all do to cope?

Permalink Reply by John Garofalo on May 6, 2009 at 11:28am

Did a search and landed on this trhead. Joined the forum. Amateur coffeehouse guitar player/singer. Been doing this on and off for 20 years. I came here looking for more contemporary songs to learn and add to my list and there are some GREAT mentions. Where can I get sheet music for songs? I used to buy books and pick odd songs here and there but that was AGES ago. ANy advice or help where I can get sheet music to learn these new somgs would be very helpful.

JG3

Permalink Reply by AC Phillips on May 24, 2009 at 10:31pm

Take a look at: www.911tabs.com

Sort by song name or artist. They're a HUGE aggregator of other tab sites, so I start there and if I can't find a song there, I'll try looking elsewhere.

Some of these songs will have chords and lyrics. Some will only have tabs for leads and no lyrics. Hunt around in there and see what you come up with.

Good luck!

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