COVERS:
Allman Brothers:
Melissa
The Band:
The Weight
The Beatles:
And Your Bird Can Sing
Behind That Locked Door (George Harrison)
Beware of Darkness (George Harrison)
Dear Prudence
For No One
I’ve Just Seen a Face
Norwegian Wood
She Said
Working Class Hero (John Lennon)
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
William Blake (Yeah, the poet–as put to music by Blake scholar Kevin Hutchings):
London
The Tiger
Blind Faith
Can’t Find My Way Home
Luka Bloom:
Diamond Mountain
David Bromberg:
Spanish Johnny (his version of the Paul Siebel song based on the Willa Cather poem)
Statesboro Blues (his version of the Blind Willie McTell song)
Greg Brown:
‘Cept You and Me, Babe
Going, Going Gone
Ring Around the Moon
Rooty-Toot-Toot for the Moon
Buffalo Springfield:
Kind Woman
Eric Clapton:
Bell-Bottom Blues
Please Be With Me
Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Bad Moon Rising
Leonard Cohen:
Alexandra Leaving
Anthem
Hallelujah
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Suzanne
Tonight Will Be Fine
Tower of Song
Travelling Lady
Donovan:
Catch the Wind
Celeste
Season of the Witch
Nick Drake:
Day Is Done
Northern Sky
Pink Moon
The Road
Voice from the Mountain
Bob Dylan:
Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Buckets of Rain
If Not For You
I Shall Be Released
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
I Want You
Just Like a Woman
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (played as a medley, in DADGAD, with Neil Young’s “Helpless”)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
One Too Many Mornings
Percy’s Song
Simple Twist of Fate
Tangled Up in Blue
To Make You Feel My Love
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
When I Get My Hands on You (New Basement Tapes
You’re a Big Girl Now
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Archie Fisher:
The Final Trawl
Witch of the Westmoreland
Jackson C. Frank:
The Blues Run the Game
John Gorka:
I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair
Tom T. Hall
Pamela Brown
Ben Harper:
Burn One Down
Wizz Jones:
Legendary Me
Carole King:
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
The Lefte Bank:
Walk Away Renee
Gordon Lightfoot:
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
The Loving Spoonful:
Darling Be Home Soon
Dougie Maclean:
I Am Ready for the Storm
Dave Mason:
Sad and Deep as You
We Just Disagree
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (his version of the Carole King song)
Joni Mitchell:
Big Yellow Taxi
Urge for Going
Van Morrison:
And It Stoned Me
Into the Mystic
New Basement Tapes:
When I Get My Hands on You
Tom Paxton:
Last Thing on My Mind
Leaving London
Pogues:
Dirty Old Town (actually written by Ewan MacColl)
Rainy Night in Soho
Henry Purcell (yeah, from the 17th century!):
Enfield Common
Lou Reed:
Pale Blue Eyes
Perfect Day
Sweet Jane
Stan Rogers:
Barrett’s Privateers (a capella–and only with other singers in the room for the kickass chorus!)
The Field Behind the Plow
The Jeannie C
Song of the Candle
Three Fishers
Witch of the Westmoreland (written by Archie Fisher)
John Stewart:
A Little Road (and a Stone to Roll)
Rolling Stones:
Lady Jane
Paint It Black
Wild Horses
Tom Rush:
Drivin’ Wheel
No Regrets
This Ol’ Mandolin
Urge for Going (written by Joni Mitchell, but I sing and play it more like Tom Rush)
John Sebastian:
Darlin Be Home Soon
Simon and Garfunkel:
Bookends
Michael Peter Smith:
The Dutchman
This Ol’ Mandolin
Steeleye Span:
Allison Gross
Cat Stevens:
Where Do the Children Play
The Wind
Walkin’ Jim Stoltz:
Wild Wind
Traditional:
Alouette (instr.)
Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song, collected by John Lomax in 1909)
Traffic:
John Barleycorn
Ian Tyson:
Four Strong Winds
Dave van Ronk:
Green, Green Rocky Road (written by Bob Kaufman)
Townes Van Zandt:
If I Needed You
Poncho and Lefty
Rex’s Blues
Tecumseh Valley
Tom Waits:
Hang Down Your Head
Hold On
Hope that I Don’t Fall in Love with You
Lookin’ for the Heart of Saturday Night
Time
Jerry Jeff Walker:
Mr. Bojangles
The Weepies
Nobody Knows Me at All
Jack White
We Are Going to be Friends
Hank Williams:
I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry
Neil Young:
Comes a Time
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Four Strong Winds
Harvest Moon
Helpless (which I play as a medley with Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”)
I Am a Child
Long May You Run
The Needle and the Damage Done
Out on the Weekend
ORIGINALS:
The Dawn Won’t Come to Grieve
For Someone (A Sequel to the Beatles’ “For Noone”)
Galileo Walkin’ in Galilee
Grace
Here Be Dragons
If Only
In the Desert/I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon/A Man Said to the Universe (Poems by
Stephen Crane that I put to music)
In the Nick of Time
Instructions from the Zen Master
The Koan Blues
Magic on the Planet
Money Talks
The New World
Not Either Side of the Sign
The Old Love (Is the Best Love)
Reflections
Schrodinger’s Cat
So Long
The Sun, the River, the Wind
Take These Blues
Buyer’s Remorse/Truck Fump
GREEN SONGS (Songs with an environmentalist theme–great for an Earth Day set!)
(Note: the first seven are from 1970–the year of the first Earth Day)
John Barleycorn Must Die, Traffic (traditional song from the 16th century)
Farewell to Tarwathie, Judy Collins (written by George Scroggie in 1850s)
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell
Out in the Country, Paul Williams/Three Dog Night
And It Stoned Me, Van Morrison
Where Do the Children Play, Cat Stevens
Whose Garden Was This?, Tom Paxton (written for the first Earth Day)
London, William Blake (music by Kevin Hutchings)
Dirty Old Town, Ewan MacColl (also done by the Pogues in the 1990s)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune, Bob Dylan
Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Final Trawl, Archie Fisher
‘Cept You and Me, Babe, Greg Brown (a protest song about cell phones and the internet!)
Magic on the Planet, Ian Marshall
Wild Wind, Walkin’ Jim Stoltz
LITERARY SONGS (Songs that were first poems)
John Barleycorn Must Die, trad.
Spanish Johnny, Willa Cather
London, William Blake
The Tiger, William Blake
Farewell to Tarwathie, George Scroggie
Three Fishers, Charles Kingsley
In the Desert, I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon, A Man Said to the Universe, Stephen Crane