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Topic: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

When preparing to play a gig or just play for friends and family at a holiday gathering, what are the top 10 or 20 songs you always choose as your favorite songs to sing, play and please the crowd with?

I'll start with a few of mine. smile

Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis
You're Right, I'm Left She's Gone - Elvis
King of the Road - Roger Miller
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

If I'm playing alone without my 400 song fat book, I remember the words to:
1. "I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz
2. "Horse Named Bad Luck" - Robt. Earl Keen
3. "Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World"
4.What the H... You Got Against Fish?"-Pat Dailey
5. "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" Willie
6."Body Parts" - Pat Dailey
7."Guilty" - Randy Neuman
8."San Francisco Bay Blues" - Eric Clapton
9."Oreo Cookie Blues"
10."Scotch and Soda"

Once the beer flows like wine, I can remember lyrics to many more.
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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

In no particular order, when it's just me...

ghost of Virginia - Justin Townes Earl
Ain't glad I'm leavin' - Justin Townes Earl
Big River - Mr. Cash
Far Away in Another Town - Justin Townes Earl
Circus Song - A Close Second (I like some of our own stuff)
Justice - A Close Second
Postcards from Jackson - A Close Second

Funny story about the youth of today, and the state of Jimmy Buffett.

I was in line at the pizza store.  There was one customer between me and the cashier, and he happened to be wearing a parrothead shirt with something like "Property of Margaritaville Jail" on it.  Or some such similar thing.   The cashier was your typical 16 year old girl.  Chatty, bright smile, etc...  So she reads his shirt, and she says (and I'm not making this up)  "Margaritavile!  I've never been there.   Have you heard that song?"

We both laughed.

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

My favorites change on a regular basis.  I've been on a Jim Croce, John Denver, and Willie Nelson kick lately.  I've been on a Johnny Cash kick for the past 30 years or so.  In no particular order (numbered only for my convenience of knowing how many I've named):

1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Whiskey River
3. Big Wheel
4. Cry, Cry, Cry
5. Get Rhythm
6. (I Fell In Love With a) Roller Derby Queen
7. Box #10
8. Me and Paul
9. Pick Up Your Oars and Row - Randy Travis
10. Sunshine - I can't remember the singer/songwriter, but you know the song, "Sunshine go away today.  I don't feel much like dancing.  Some man's gone, he's trying to run my life.  He don't know what he's asking."
11. Landslide - I'm just having fun learning to play it.
12. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
13. And many more!!!

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

In no particular order:

Sister Golden Hair Surprise - America
Angel Eyes - John Hiatt
All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan
Tangled up in Blue - Bob Dylan
One More Cup of Coffee (for the road) - Bob Dylan
Man on the Moon - REM
Forever Young - Bob Dylan
Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

Subject to frequent change :-)

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

Here is 20 of my favorites in no particular order from my books of about 200 songs that i try to play every day or at least twice a week.

Consuming Fire by Third Day
Prodigal by Casting Crowns
Eagles by Third Day
Come Home Running by Chris Tomlin
Awsome God by Rich Mullins
Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pancho N Lefty by Willie and Merle
Then by Brad Paisley
Folsom Prison Blues by Johhny Cash
Lay em Down by Needtobreath
Pierced by Audio Adrenaline
Saved by Grace  re written by Me (in the tune of Turn The Page)Bob Segar
Savin Me by Nickleback
Great Light Of The World by Bebo Norman
Hands And Feet by Audio Adrenaline
Red Sky by Brandon Heath
Sing Me Back Home by Merle Haggard
Carried To The Table by Leeland
Mama's Hungry Eyes by Merle Haggard
Grace Like Rain by Todd Agnew

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

Here's a few that I always seem to play...

"Pencil Thin Mustache" by Jimmy Buffet
"Gone", "Banana Pancakes", "Better Together", "Horizon Has Been Defeated", "Go On", "Cookie Jar", "Rodeo Clowns" and "BreakDown" by Jack Johnson all get played a lot
"Acting Like A Fool" by Matt Costa
"Ain't No Reason" by Brett Dennen
"Wendesday Morning" by SlackString
"Spanish Town" "Dela" and "La Mar" by The Beautiful Girls
"The General" "Out Loud" & "Two Coins" by Dispatch
"Waiting on an Angel", "Walk Away", "Burn One Down", "Diamond on the Inside", "She's only Happy in the Sun", And "Steal My Kisses" by Ben Harper all get played regularly...
"Keeping It Real", "Living in The Moment", and "Which Way Your Heart Will Go" by Mason Jennings

This list could go on for quite a while so I'll just stop there smile

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Re: What's your Top 10 or even Top 20 songs!

I don't know that I can actually play 20 songs yet, but here are the ones I'm working hardest to learn:

Give a Little Bit (Supertramp)
Mr. Jones (Counting Crows)
Gentle on My Mind (Glen Campbell)
Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
Angry American (Toby Keith)
Hotel California (Eagles - got the chords and strumming down;  trying to pick it)
To Make You Feel My Love (Dylan / G Brooks / T Yearwood)
City of New Orleans (Willie Nelson's version)
I Saw The Light (Todd Rundgren)
I'm No Superman (Lazlo Bane)
If I Fell (Beatles)
Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer)
Mary's Prayer (Danny Wilson)
More Than Words (Extreme - again, learning to pick it the way Nuno Bettencourt does)
One Toke Over The Line (Brewer and Shipley)
Overkill (Colin Hay's acoustic version)

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