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#41
Thinking about putting together a Country act. What do you guys think of this list?

Why Don’t We Just Dance – Josh Turner
TROUBLE – Travis Tritt
I’m From the Country – Tracy Byrd
In Color – Jamey Johnson
I Like It, I Love It – Tim McGraw
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
Save a Horse – Big & Rich
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Blame It On Your Heart – Patty Loveless
Hicktown – Jason Aldean
Toes – Zac Brown
Forever And Ever Amen – Randy Travis
Country Roads – John Denver
You Never Called Me By My Name – David Allen Coe
Chicken Fried – Zac Brown
John Cougar, John Deer, John 3:16 – Keith Urban
Country Girl Shake It – Luke Bryan
Boot Scootin Boogie – Brooks & Dunn
Mama Tried – Merle Haggard
The Race Is On – George Jones
All About Tonight – Blake Sheldon
Little Less Talk – Toby Keith
Lot of Leaving Left to Do – Dierks Bentley
Somebody Like You – Keith Urban
Alcohol – Brad Paisley
Pretty Good At Drinking Beer – Billy Currington
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off – Joe Nichols
Trashy Women – Confederate Railroad
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk – Trace Adkins
All About that Bass – Meghan Trainor
Drink In My Hand – Eric Church
Beer In Mexico – Kenny Chesney
I Love This Bar – Toby Keith
Let It Rip – Dixie Chicks
Folsom Prison Blues / Mystery Train – Johnny Cash
Boys Round Here – Blake Sheldon
Young and Crazy – Frankie Ballard
We are Tonight – Billy Currington
Wagon Wheel Medley – Darius Rucker
Family Tradition – Hank Williams
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Drink a Beer – Luke Bryan
Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
Fireman – George Strait
Radio – Darius Rucker
 
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#42
For now:

2 minutes to midnight - iron maiden
Breaking the law - judas priest
For whom to bell tolls - metallica
Fade to black - metallica
Season in the abbys - slayer
Crystal mountain - death
Dark saga - iced earth
A question of heaven - iced earth
Balls to the wall - accept
Tample of the king - rainbow
Too late - black sabbath
Wasting love - iron maiden

Pull me under - dream theater
Hallowed be thy name - iron maiden
Orion - metallica
In trance - scorpions
 
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#43
Fat Fingers said:
Here’s the 1st set for an outdoor gig this summer:

8 Piece Box – Southern Culture on the Skids
The Weight – The Band
Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
I Got You – James Brown
We Gotta Get Out of This Place – The Animals
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
Up On The Roof – The Drifters
Green-Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf
Human Cannonball – Webb Wilder
Pipeline – The Ventures

We are a 3-piece. I sing I Got You, Twist and Shout, Green-Eyed Lady, and part of The Wait. The guitarist and drummer sing the others and we all do backup. It’s an all ages crowd.
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It's good to see another Southern Culture of the Skids fan.
 
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jive1 said:
Thinking about putting together a Country act. What do you guys think of this list?

Why Don’t We Just Dance – Josh Turner
TROUBLE – Travis Tritt
I’m From the Country – Tracy Byrd
In Color – Jamey Johnson
I Like It, I Love It – Tim McGraw
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
Save a Horse – Big & Rich
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Blame It On Your Heart – Patty Loveless
Hicktown – Jason Aldean
Toes – Zac Brown
Forever And Ever Amen – Randy Travis
Country Roads – John Denver
You Never Called Me By My Name – David Allen Coe
Chicken Fried – Zac Brown
John Cougar, John Deer, John 3:16 – Keith Urban
Country Girl Shake It – Luke Bryan
Boot Scootin Boogie – Brooks & Dunn
Mama Tried – Merle Haggard
The Race Is On – George Jones
All About Tonight – Blake Sheldon
Little Less Talk – Toby Keith
Lot of Leaving Left to Do – Dierks Bentley
Somebody Like You – Keith Urban
Alcohol – Brad Paisley
Pretty Good At Drinking Beer – Billy Currington
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off – Joe Nichols
Trashy Women – Confederate Railroad
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk – Trace Adkins
All About that Bass – Meghan Trainor
Drink In My Hand – Eric Church
Beer In Mexico – Kenny Chesney
I Love This Bar – Toby Keith
Let It Rip – Dixie Chicks
Folsom Prison Blues / Mystery Train – Johnny Cash
Boys Round Here – Blake Sheldon
Young and Crazy – Frankie Ballard
We are Tonight – Billy Currington
Wagon Wheel Medley – Darius Rucker
Family Tradition – Hank Williams
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Drink a Beer – Luke Bryan
Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
Fireman – George Strait
Radio – Darius Rucker
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You again. ;)
 
#45
desert_rain said:
For now:

2 minutes to midnight - iron maiden
Breaking the law - judas priest
For whom to bell tolls - metallica
Fade to black - metallica
Season in the abbys - slayer
Crystal mountain - death
Dark saga - iced earth
A question of heaven - iced earth
Balls to the wall - accept
Tample of the king - rainbow
Too late - black sabbath
Wasting love - iron maiden

Pull me under - dream theater
Hallowed be thy name - iron maiden
Orion - metallica
In trance - scorpions
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#46
We (children of the 90s as well) used to play a playlist like this:

Wicked Garden - STP
Plush - STP
Sex Type Thing - STP
Crackerman - STP
Interstate Love Song - STP
Unglued - STP
Corduroy - Pearl Jam
Given to Fly - Pearl Jam
Animal - Pearl Jam
Hail Hail - Pearl Jam
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Go - Pearl Jam
Ashes to Ashes - FNM
Digging the grave - FNM
Midlife Crisis - FNM
Gentle art of making enemies - FNM
Ricochet - FNM
Aeroplane - RHCP
Fortune Faded - RHCP
Suck my Kiss - RHCP
Like a Stone - Audioslave

Not in that order, but that's what I remember :)

Had a blast playing that. Only needed a couple of drop-D detunings, too.
 
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#47
Here's a recent one, but it changes slightly from gig to gig (we don't always play so much country):

SET 1
  1. Act Naturally
  2. Ring Of Fire
  3. Tall Tall Trees
  4. Wrapped Around
  5. Little Sister
  6. Bad Moon Rising
  7. Boot Scootin’ Boogie
  8. Folsom Prison
  9. Embarque ma Belle
  10. Vieux dans l’Bas du Fleuve
  11. Hey Tonight
  12. American Saturday Night
  13. Mercury Blues
  14. Handle With Care
  15. Every Breath You Take
SET 2
  1. Driving My Life Away
  2. Fast As You
  3. Have You Ever Seen The Rain
  4. Honky Tonk Women
  5. Guitars, Cadillacs
  6. Ticks
  7. Last Kiss
  8. Summer Of ’69
  9. Cocaine
  10. All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
  11. Proud Mary
  12. Mustang Sally
  13. Rockin' Me
  14. Pretty Woman
  15. Addicted To Love
SET 3
  1. Bad Case Of Loving You
  2. I Want You To Want Me
  3. Long Train Running
  4. You Really Got Me
  5. New Orleans Is Sinking
  6. Rockin’ In The Free World
  7. Born To Be Wild
  8. Learn To Fly
  9. The Middle
  10. Another Brick In The Wall
  11. Marie-Louise
  12. Wish You Were Here
 
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#48
My acoustic trio Happy Little Trees has an official "set list" for our gigs, but it's really merely a suggestion, as one guitar player pretty much just calls out tunes as we go. An alphabetical list looks something like this:

A Horse With No Name - America
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Baby Blue - Badfinger
Baby I love Your Way - Frampton
Bad Moon Rising - CCR
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Best Of My Love - Eagles
Big Empty - STP
Breakdown - Tom Petty
China Grove - Doobie Bros
Come Together - Beatles
Could This Be Magic - VH
Crystal Ball - Styx
Damn Good - DLR
Drive - Incubus
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Co
From The Beginning - ELP
Interstate Love Song - STP
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Listen To The Music - Doobie Bros
Love Me Tonight - Head East
Lyin' Eyes - Eagles
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Making Memories - Rush
Melissa - Allman Bros
Moondance - Van Morrison
Mother - Pink Floyd
No Excuses - AIC
Norwegian Wood - Beatles
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Pride And Joy - SRV
Proud Mary - CCR / Ike & Tina
Red Barchetta - Rush
Ridin' The Storm Out - REO
Sail On, Sail Away - Moxy
Shooting Star - Bad Co.
Show Me The Way - Frampton
Sister Golden Hair - America
Take It Easy - Eagles
Take It On The Run - REO
Take It To The Limit - Eagles
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Time For Me To Fly - REO
Used To Love Her - GnR
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
YYZ - Rush

I'm sure there are others not listed that we bust out once in a blue moon that I simply don't recall at the moment.
 
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Ha! I just had a Green Eyed Lady come up on my shuffle play the other day and I was like how did I ever not learn that bassline?! More addictive than crack!
Fat Fingers said:
Here’s the 1st set for an outdoor gig this summer:

8 Piece Box – Southern Culture on the Skids
The Weight – The Band
Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
I Got You – James Brown
We Gotta Get Out of This Place – The Animals
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
Up On The Roof – The Drifters
Green-Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf
Human Cannonball – Webb Wilder
Pipeline – The Ventures

We are a 3-piece. I sing I Got You, Twist and Shout, Green-Eyed Lady, and part of The Wait. The guitarist and drummer sing the others and we all do backup. It’s an all ages crowd.
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#54
We have a female vocalist but do a lot of stuff that wasn't originally a female vocalist (if all of us feel she can pull it off). From this list we pick ~40 for a typical 4 hour bar gig - so we figure on 10 songs / hr of play time - for shorter gigs we adjust accordingly. There's a lot of variety in there purposely so we try to chose based on what we think the crowd will like or sometimes just based on what we feel like paying (i.e. whim). It's all good and we always have fun so that's all that matters.


1 All Along The Watchtower - Our Own Take On It
2 Innocent - Fuel
3 I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett
4 Fortunate Son - CCR
5 Listen To Her Heart - Tom Petty
6 Creep - Radiohead
7 Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
8 Come Together - Aerosmith
9 Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
10 Rainbow In The Dark - Ronnie James Dio
11 Man I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
12 Zombie - Cranberries
13 Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson
14 Hello - Adele
15 Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
16 One Way - Blondie
17 Smooth - Santana
18 Turn The Page - Metallica
19 Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare
20 La Bamba Ritchie Valens
21 I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett
22 American Girl - Tom Petty
23 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
24 Knocking On Heaven's Door - Guns & Roses
25 Back On The Chain Gang Pretenders / Selena
26 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
27 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
28 I Want You To Want Me - Letters To Cleo
29 What's Going On - 4 Non-Blondes
30 We Got The Beat - Go Gos
31 Like A Stone - Audioslave
32 Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top
33 House Of The Rising Sun - Our Own Take On It
34 Purple Rain - Our Own Take On It
35 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
36 Dream On - Aerosmith
37 Under The Influence - Elle King
38 Hotel California - Our Own Take On It
39 Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
40 Cerveza Road - Cerveza Road (Our only original thus far)
41 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
42 White Wedding - Billy Idol
43 Have You Ever Seen The Rain - CCR
44 Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
45 Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
46 Just Tonight - Pretty Reckless
47 Wonderwall - Oasis
48 Just Like A Pill - Pink
49 Feliz Navidad - Our Own Take On It
50 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC / DC
51 Blood and Roses - The Smithereens
52 One Of Us - Joan Osborne
53 Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughn
54 Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
55 Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
56 With Or Without You - U2
57 You Can Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
58 Black Velvet - Alana Miles
59 Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
60 Breakin The Law - Judas Priest
61 Whiskey In The Jar - Metallica
62 Bitch - Meredith Brooks
63 I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge
64 Torn - Natalie Imbruglio
65 Diamonds - Rihanna
 
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#55
Worldeeeter said:
Wow - couldn't even get through one page of this thread without seeing that piece of crap Wagon Wheel. That song needs to be banned from being played anywhere at any time. I was excited at all the 90s goodness before it, too. I played in a 90s hard rock/metal/grunge cover band a few years ago, and it was a ton of fun.

Stop Playing "Wagon Wheel"
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Wagon steel is the best song ever created, more people should play it.
 
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mikeyjm2 said:
We have a female vocalist but do a lot of stuff that wasn't originally a female vocalist (if all of us feel she can pull it off). From this list we pick ~40 for a typical 4 hour bar gig - so we figure on 10 songs / hr of play time - for shorter gigs we adjust accordingly. There's a lot of variety in there purposely so we try to chose based on what we think the crowd will like or sometimes just based on what we feel like paying (i.e. whim). It's all good and we always have fun so that's all that matters.


1 All Along The Watchtower - Our Own Take On It
2 Innocent - Fuel
3 I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett
4 Fortunate Son - CCR
5 Listen To Her Heart - Tom Petty
6 Creep - Radiohead
7 Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
8 Come Together - Aerosmith
9 Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
10 Rainbow In The Dark - Ronnie James Dio
11 Man I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
12 Zombie - Cranberries
13 Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson
14 Hello - Adele
15 Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
16 One Way - Blondie
17 Smooth - Santana
18 Turn The Page - Metallica
19 Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare
20 La Bamba Ritchie Valens
21 I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett
22 American Girl - Tom Petty
23 Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
24 Knocking On Heaven's Door - Guns & Roses
25 Back On The Chain Gang Pretenders / Selena
26 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
27 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
28 I Want You To Want Me - Letters To Cleo
29 What's Going On - 4 Non-Blondes
30 We Got The Beat - Go Gos
31 Like A Stone - Audioslave
32 Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top
33 House Of The Rising Sun - Our Own Take On It
34 Purple Rain - Our Own Take On It
35 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
36 Dream On - Aerosmith
37 Under The Influence - Elle King
38 Hotel California - Our Own Take On It
39 Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
40 Cerveza Road - Cerveza Road (Our only original thus far)
41 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
42 White Wedding - Billy Idol
43 Have You Ever Seen The Rain - CCR
44 Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
45 Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
46 Just Tonight - Pretty Reckless
47 Wonderwall - Oasis
48 Just Like A Pill - Pink
49 Feliz Navidad - Our Own Take On It
50 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC / DC
51 Blood and Roses - The Smithereens
52 One Of Us - Joan Osborne
53 Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughn
54 Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
55 Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
56 With Or Without You - U2
57 You Can Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
58 Black Velvet - Alana Miles
59 Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
60 Breakin The Law - Judas Priest
61 Whiskey In The Jar - Metallica
62 Bitch - Meredith Brooks
63 I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge
64 Torn - Natalie Imbruglio
65 Diamonds - Rihanna
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I'm new to gigging, so this migtht be a stupid question, but: Do you expect to get through all of those in a night? If not, how many do you usually do out of the set list?
 
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DChalo said:
Do you expect to get through all of those in a night? If not, how many do you usually do out of the set list?
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No way do we go through all of those. We figure on 10 per hour of gig time. Our usual haunts expect a 4 hour gig so we'll work up 40 songs and then stick to it for the most part but then wing it sometimes (especially towards the end of the gig).
 
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