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Location: NJ | I'm booked to do a solo acoustic gig at a local restaurant for the Valentine's Day dinner crowd.
I have pretty extensive repetoire, but am always open to suggestion and thought I'd throw it out here.
Any favorites? |
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Location: SoCal | Wichita Lineman. Maybe the best love line in any song
"And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"
And made famous by an Ovation endorsee. |
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Location: Scotland | How about "I gave my love a ring, she gave me the finger" |
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Location: Tennessee | Wonderful Tonight. |
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Location: ma. | "i fell in love with a hooker, she laughed in my face" |
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Location: Tennessee | Good one, hackr, but of course that means we now have to include nearly every Soul Asylum tune. :cool: |
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Location: Pittsburgh PA | "Blackbird" is always a good one for an accoustic. McCartney also played an Ovation on his '76 world tour.
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Location: NJ | "you can't always get what you want" tried to convince Sue to use it as our wedding song....she was not amused. |
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Location: Tennessee | Reminds me that we had, among others, "when I'm sixty four" at our wedding. Even has a Valentine's reference in it. Fun to sing/play and the crowd always has fun with it too. |
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Location: NJ | LOL!!!!
My wedding song was "Life During War Time" by the Talking Heads.
(kidding.) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "Love Stinks" by J. Geils |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Cliff-
"Used to Love Her" by Guns N Roses is a MUST!
John |
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Location: NJ | Already on the list (Rick and I already do it at the "duo" gigs) along with "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw".
I'll just slow 'em down a little and finger pick 'em.
These poor people don't know what they're in for. |
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| lol. Bob Dylan has a great tune that if slowed down and strummed lightly sounds great. If not it sounds like Bob Dylan on coke. The name of the song is "nobody 'cept you" |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Hmmmm, let see...
Our band does Wonderful Tonight
These that we do might work, too:
Bob Marley's Waiting In Vain
Bob Dylan's Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me
And on a different love song or two:
The Band's Up On Cripple Creek
Mickey Newberry's Tell Me Baby Why You Been Gone So Long?
Which has the lovely lyrics:
Nothin' else I want to do
I guess I could get stoned
And let the past play pictures in my head
Kill a fifth of Thuderbird and try to write a sad, sad song
Tell me baby why you been gone so long... |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | "It's So Easy" by everbody's favorite little brother, Ricky Nelson. Great love song |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | And don't forget Bob Dylans "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Kris & Willie's rendition on the 30th Anniversary concert album is positively lewd! |
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Location: Alabama | Van Morrison, Crazy Love. Great lyric, sounds good acoustic. |
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Location: Radford VA | Since Gun's and Rose's has been mentioned Patience would be good. Crash by Dave Matthews would be a good one too. :cool:
Patrick |
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Location: Houston, TX | I'm not sure exactly where the cheese line is drawn, but we had Zep's "Thank You" at our wedding. It's not for everybody, but I love it.
...if the sun refuse to shine... |
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Location: ma. | you just crossed it. inagadadivita, does anyone know what that means? |
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Location: Houston, TX | sorry hackr (shakin off the parmesan) |
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Location: ma. | there's a really bizarre story behind the bass player for that band (IRON BUTTERFLY), ever hear it? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | "Sylvias' Mother", I forget who does it. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Somebody mentioned Mickey Newberry, I always liked "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodby" as done by Jerry Lee Lewis. |
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