Reply With QuoteYou got some Joe B. up there, how about one or both of these? I like both of them a lot.
I know Mayer does this as a trio, but I am sure you could work up good versions as a quartet.
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Help me come up with BLUES tunes for an upcoming gig!
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'
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You got some Joe B. up there, how about one or both of these? I like both of them a lot.
I know Mayer does this as a trio, but I am sure you could work up good versions as a quartet.
Steve Thompson
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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? :-)
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Classic blues.
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Riding With the King = The BB King / Eric Clapton version
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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
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Gary Moore- "Still got the blues".
Myra on vocals + Robert on guitar = awesome song.
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I have a Memphis Minnie record, there may be something there for the female vocalist...!
How about this?
Quite colorful, following Dee's idea a bit... LOL
Other: "Stormy Monday", in the Freddie King fashion?
Less golf, more saxophone
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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
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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
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I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
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So Robert, seeing any you like?Enquiring minds want to know!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
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This one?
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
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.
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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....Originally Posted by Spudman
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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...eature=related
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Give Me One Reason-----Tracy Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kEx5BLoC4
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^^
+1. That is a good tune, and I bet Myra would do a great job with the vocal.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
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.
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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.
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