Help me come up with BLUES tunes for an upcoming gig!

[Robert]

We have a blues gig coming up on Sept 11 and we need 25 songs.

Can you suggest some good blues tunes for a 4 piece band, with a female vocalist? Drums, Guitar, Vocals, Bass. We have Myra on vocal cords - she is an amazing blues singer.

Here's a set list from an earlier, short blues gig we did. Some we could add that we used to play - Kansas City, Mustang Sally, Soulshine, Mercury Blues, and SRV tunes like Cold Shot, Pride and Joy etc, but everybody does SRV...

1. Start It Up (Robben Ford)
2. Life By The Drop (SRV)
3. Shake Your Moneymaker
4. Voodoo Woman (Tedeschi)
5. Route 66
6. You Need To Be With Me (Tedeschi)
7. Tore Down
8. Love Me Like A Man (Bonnie Raitt)
9. Hound Dog
10. Pack It Up (Bonamassa version)
11. Little By Little
12. Mojo Workin'

[sunvalleylaw]

You got some Joe B. up there, how about one or both of these? I like both of them a lot.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ91QqkS9MQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuePPbnue9c

I know Mayer does this as a trio, but I am sure you could work up good versions as a quartet.

[deeaa]

I thought to play the blues you just have to decide with the others which chords to play, and then start, repeat as many times as needed. Sing whatever comes to mind to complain about? :-)

[Katastrophe]

Classic blues.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApNirMC9gM

[Spudman]

Riding With the King = The BB King / Eric Clapton version


http://youtu.be/a5T5qDRxbpM

[guitartango]

Robert

This would be my set list

1 Crossroads blues (crossroads) Cream
2 redhouse Jimi Hendrix
3 Roadhouse Blues The Doors
4 Oh Well Fleetwood Mac
5 Any Fleetwood song before 1971

[oldguy]

Gary Moore- "Still got the blues".

Myra on vocals + Robert on guitar = awesome song.

[poodlesrule]

I have a Memphis Minnie record, there may be something there for the female vocalist...!

How about this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZm__okfkmA)?

Quite colorful, following Dee's idea a bit... LOL


Other: "Stormy Monday", in the Freddie King fashion?

[helliott]

Here's a few we've been doing with some success. Like em because you don't hear them played much but mostly cause they sizzle real good. Hope it helps.

Why Get up -- Fab Tbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ko0pWsWRdw


Walkin to my baby --fab tbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnEw9HUdYV8

Trouble no more -- ABB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2PhYFK8Bw

Need Your love so bad -- Peter Green Fleetwood Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ZgF8vyZEY&feature=fvst

Can't do my homework any more -- Robben Ford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6wrYDjHjk

YOu Got to lose -- George Thorogood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqZjqVJXCY4

All your love -- John Mayall with clapton version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUEtCBhn_Q

[Zip]

Street Corner Talking, an oldie by Savoy Brown. Easy to play, a real crowd-pleaser 'cause you don't hear it much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J65HA5D1SGA

[sunvalleylaw]

So Robert, seeing any you like? :poke Enquiring minds want to know!

[R_of_G]

This one?

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[Robert]

We are doing Soulshine, I'll check with Myra if she wants to do Stormy Monday. I like the old jazz versions (Ella, etc) better though! :)

Thanks for all the suggestions, I have added several to my list, and we are having a band meeting tonight. We'll decide next week, collectively, which tunes to do.

[duhvoodooman]

Riding With the King = The BB King / Eric Clapton version


http://youtu.be/a5T5qDRxbpM

Great, GREAT tune! Anybody who thinks that "The Blues" can't make you grin from ear to ear hasn't heard this tune! Not sure that anybody but B.B. is qualified to sing it though....

[Retro Hound]

Baby Please Don't Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wah7MqEHFg

Summertime (one of my all-time favorite songs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDOEsQL7lA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npK1q6LY9Q

Bonnie Raitt Love Me Like a Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXLP8_2B2sw&feature=related

[piebaldpython]

Give Me One Reason-----Tracy Chapman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kEx5BLoC4

[sunvalleylaw]

^^

+1. That is a good tune, and I bet Myra would do a great job with the vocal.

[Robert]

Thanks guys, Gimme One Reason is already on our list of "new" songs to learn!

I think we have the set list close to being done. I can post it on here if you guys like.

[piebaldpython]

Oh crap I forgot the BEST song for a woman to sing.....Katie Webster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywLWjDJKqE

Bonnie Raitt guests on slide guitar starting at 1:55 in....this tune just kills.

[Jipes]

Just my two cents from our set list

Woke up this morning (BB King or Freddie King)
Early in the morning (Junior Wells - Sonny Boy Williamson I)
Your good things (Lucky Peterson)
Feel so bad (Little Milton)

[@nthony]

Not really blues... but got a blues feeling... Led Zepplin - "Can't Quit You Baby"

Actually, just read it WAS an old blues song originally! So that told me!

[Jipes]

So Robert did you made up your mind in this ocean of propositions :gossip

[Robert]

Yes, thanks guys! I will post the set list here soon, once we have it finalized by all band members' input!

[mrmudcat]

I like the Etta suggestion and of course anything ABB..........it's not my cross to bear.

[Robert]

Here's the set list (with 93.67 % certainty)


Shake Your Moneymaker
Start It Up
Flip Flop Fly
Mustang Sally
Mojo
Pack It Up
Son of a Preacher Man
Tore Down
Mercury Blues
Hug You Squeeze You
VooDoo Woman
Hound Dog
You Need To Be With Me
Love Me Like A Man
House Is Rockin
Empty Arms
Life By The Drop
Route 66
Stormy Weather
Soulshine
Every Day I Have The Blues
My Babe
Gimme One Reason
Something To Talk About
Tuff Enuff
Play That Funky Music
Learn To Love
Mans Gotta Be A Stone
Harder To Breathe
People Get Ready
The River Knows Your Name

[mrmudcat]

Not really blues... but got a blues feeling... Led Zepplin - "Can't Quit You Baby"

Actually, just read it WAS an old blues song originally! So that told me!




Yep written by willie dixon and sung by otis rush!!!! cant get much more bluesier:dude

[Blaze]

I m late but here is one I do with a buddy of mine ..Smooth Jazzy Blues ..

People likes it very much ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxZP6f0jpWM

[piebaldpython]

Nice set list....some of the tunes I'm not familiar with. lol Hey, do you play slide on any of the tunes? Shake Your Moneymaker is a rollickin' good tune for overdriven slide.

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice List! One of my suggestions made the cut! Yay! :D

[Robert]

Nah, I don't play slide. I suck.

We are doing 2 instrumentals too.

One them is this one http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/artist_songs/1007859

For the other instrumental, any ideas? Perhaps Hideaway? But it feels so "overdone"...

[sunvalleylaw]

Heard some great slide last night at the Bonnie Raitt concert. She also rocked vocally, and also guitarwise on "Love me Like a Man". She held down the song with just her on acoustic (great job!) and her bass player. I bet Myra will be great on that tune. (oh, and you too. :))

My favorite "blues" instrumental is "Riviera Paradise". You know that one?