Get To Play A Big Gig. Help Me Choose More Songs Please.

Bump for anymore suggestions for an uptempo song.

 

Ambulance Blues. Neil Young

 

Given my perspective, I think you need another uptempo "crowd pleaser." I say either "Papa Loved Mama" by Garth Brooks or "I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash.

 

Any Beatles in your set list? "No Reply" and "I'm A Loser" would work well as an uptempo acoustic number.

 

Teach Your Children - Graham Nash
Flowers Are Red - Harry Chapin

 

A few obvious ones, but it is always good when the audience knows the songs...

Bitterblue - Cat Stevens
Saint Dominic's Preview - Van Morrison
New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
Box Of Rain - The Grateful Dead
My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) - Neil Young

 

Still looking for a couple of uptempo numbers

 

Billy Joel Everybody Loves You Now
Marshall Crenshaw--Cynical Girl or Someday Someway
Dire Straits Walk of Life

 

Man of Constant Sorrow (as on the Dan Tyminski version on the 'O Brother' soundtrack)

Folsom Prison Blues (as on Johnny Cash's original version at Folsom Prison)

Really want to challenge yourself lyrically? Try something like Growin' Up or Rosalita (Springsteen) or the piece de resistance, Subterranean Homesick Blues or its winsome but less famous (and less tongue-twisting) cousin, Tombstone Blues (both Dylan, of course!)

 

Play the song 'Heart Full Of Love,' which was written by a 60s rocker turned hit Nashville songwriter named Kostas.

 

Al Stewart - Flying Sorcery

 

How did the gig go and what ended up on your set list?