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07-31-2001, 05:45 PM
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Play List Suggestions Needed
Hi Everyone:
Time to get my act together and develop a play list. I figure that with a list of 15 or so songs, I can sit down and do an hour or more of music whenever I get the chance. You know coffee houses, friends parties, open mics, etc. I've got a few songs under my belt (Beatles, James Taylor, Dave Matthews, etc.) but my voice is nothing to write home about. I can make up for that with good acoustic material though. Luckily the Taylors (410 & 514ce)sound so good, it takes the emphasis off the voice. (Also, I should say that I've been playing for quite a few years. With practice, I can usually play most tabbed material quite well, and can improvise other stuff on my own) So folks, how about some suggestions for a good acoustic set that I can work on. Hey performers, what are your essential numbers? Perhaps we should have a new category for great acoustic numbers and tabs on this site! 
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08-02-2001, 12:42 AM
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Gotta fall back on the folk music:
Country Roads - John Denver Hey It's Good To Be Back Home Again - John Denver City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan Time - Pozo-Seco Singers Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash Heart of Gold - Neil Young Sugar Mountain - Neil Young Blowin' In the Wind - Bob Dylan Someday Soon - Judy Collins Easychair - Bob Dylan Colorado Girl - Townes Van Zandt Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine - Tom T.Hall Sunday Mornin' Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson Greenfields - Brothers Four Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger Circle Game - Buffy St. Marie The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez I'll quit now.
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08-02-2001, 07:41 AM
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Hi Noflatpick,
I'll bet you came up with that list in just a few minutes. There are some great suggestions on your list. Also, I few that I don't know. I'll have to check these out. Thanks for responding. Another question for you, what is your absolute favorite?
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08-02-2001, 09:07 AM
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Hey Ron:
Yeah, about 30 seconds for that list. Those are just a few of the songs I always play when I get together with others, or when I'm just entertaining myself. Absolute favorite?? Do you mean favorite song of all time or favorite off that list? I don't think I could answer either way. I really dig folk and folk-rock, but also blues, both acoustic and electric. Lightfoot and Dylan are a couple of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters, as well as Neil Young and John Denver. Old delta blues players like Mississippi John Hurt and Robert Johnson are also right at the top for me. I started really getting into Townes Van Zandt last year and absolutely love his stuff even though I haven't heard it all yet. It never fails though, semms like whenever I discover somebody I really like, like Van Zandt, it turns out they're dead.(like Van Zandt) Anyway, if someone held a gun to my head and demanded I name my favorite song of all time, I'd probably say "Blue Angel" by the late great Roy Orbison. Later on...
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08-02-2001, 04:14 PM
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Ron,
Noflatpick has some really good suggestions in his list. Many of them are ones I performed when I first started off back in the 70's. As mentioned, Dylan, Lightfoot, and John Denver are good ones to start with. John Prine is also good and he's pretty easy to play. If your taste tends towards artists who are a bit more "modern" here are a few more you might want to check out: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer John Gorka James Keelaghan Richard Shindell Pierce Pettis Dana Cooper All these folks have some great songs---many of which aren't TOO challenging to play. (Carter & Grammer have some pretty hard ones but some that are playable.) Good luck........................Rick
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08-05-2001, 04:44 PM
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Hi Hodagg:
Obviously have heard Prine, Denver, and Dylan. Also like John Gorka. The other folks you mentioned are unknown to me. I'll have to check them out. Thank you for the suggestions. How could I enjoy music so much (all kinds) and not heard of all those people you mentioned? I'm obviously in a rut!!!!!!
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08-05-2001, 04:54 PM
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Noflatpick,
Now you're talking. There will never be another Roy Orbison. His stuff is so classic. I'll have to dust off some of the old CD's and learn a few of his songs. Blue Angel, Blue Bayou, Only the Lonley.......man I'm glad you mentioned Roy. That should fill out any set I put together. dum-dum-dum-dumby-doo-wah.........
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08-06-2001, 01:44 AM
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Yeah. Now if we just had the voice it takes to do his music justice.
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08-06-2001, 08:11 PM
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City Of New Orleans/Arlo Guthrie
Hotel California/Eagles Take it Easy/Eagles Born To Be Wild/Steppinwolf Love will keep us alive/Eagles Time In A Bottle/Jim Croce Desparado/Eagles Yesterday/Beatles Norwegian Wood(This bird has flown)/Beatles Out Of Left Field/Percy Sledge Knock On Wood/Eddie Floyd In The Midnight Hour/Wilson Pickett At The Dark End Of The Street/Percy Sledge For The Good Times/Al Green Pink Moon/Nick Drake Bridge Over Troubled Water/My Version Lets Get it On/Marvin Gaye I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song/Jim Croce Life In The Fast Lane/Eagles By The Time I get To Phenoix/Glenn Campell Operator(Thats Not the Way It Feels)Jim Croce Two Hearts/James Williams This list covers a lot of ground JW
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08-07-2001, 10:41 AM
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Quote:
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08-07-2001, 01:17 PM
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Saw him at the Paramount Theater in Seattle in the summer of 1988. Great show. Did every hit song he'd ever recorded. Didn't sound a bit different than he did in 1964. Voice still strong, clear and full Orbison range.
Five months later he was dead. I thank my lucky stars that I was able to see him when I did. In the words of Tom Petty, "He had a voice like someone from another planet."
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08-07-2001, 03:16 PM
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I think it was december of 88 when he died of a heart attack. His voice was clear, loud and great. I last saw him in 87 but met him in the 70s doing clubs.JW
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08-17-2001, 09:20 AM
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some always seem to be crowd pleasers:
Southern Cross- CSNY City of New Orleans House of the rising sun The night they drove old dixie down Melissa- Allman Brothers Desperado, Hotel California or any Eagles Puff the Magic Dragon (don't laugh- people dig it) or any Peter paul and Mary any Bob Dylan Cats in the Cradle (and people will ARGUE with you if you tell them it is Harry Chapin, not Cat stevens!) How about Cat Stevens? People still like him. Moondance (or any Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl is a constant request but I don't know it) Any Jimmy Buffet (I cant bring myself to learn Margueritaville or Cheeseburger in paradise so I do A Pirate Looks at Forty and Volcano) The dreaded 7 minute long songs get asked for a lot: American Pie The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald People ask me all the time for "Brandy" - I don't know it and don't know why it is so commonly requested- was it a huge huge hit? Do lots of soloists do it? And these, but probably more so because i am a woman: Bobby Mcgee (I get asked for it every 98% of my gigs, sometimes twice in a night) Proud Mary Son of a preacher man any joni mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi) any carly simon any Carole King P.s. they DO yell "freebird" but I think they are joking  I did hear a guy soloist do it once and it was actually good. I was thinking of learning it in some odd foreign language. I was even considering playing Stairway to heaven- I think it has passed through joke status now, people might even like it!
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