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Doug Cassell
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San Antonio Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 11:56 am |
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I tried searching several ways and couldn't find this, but I'm sure it's been posted here somewhere.
What is your cover band's setlist? Or what are the essential songs one must learn to play steel in a cover band?
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David Sheads
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 12:04 pm
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| Following. I was just looking yesterday for lists in other (non-country) genres of good places to start to be able to sit in at jams and with cover bands. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 2:18 pm
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| Classic country or modern (radio-play) country? |
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 2:32 pm
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"Country Cover Band" is a very broad category. Mo Pitney to Brantley Gilbert.
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 2:39 pm
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It’s a wide open topic with no end in sight, i know the pain 50’s to 2018. Here’s a list of mixed “oldies†you will run into at jam sessions etc....Try to nail the intro’s, it’s a good insight.
Foggy mountain G
Working man blues A
Steel guitar rag E
Cheatin heart C
Wine me up A
C jam
San Antonio rose A
Sit here and drink A
Heart over mind G
Night life C
Swinging doors F
For the good times Bb
Walking after midnight C
Bottle let me down D
Too cold at home D
Much too young G
Silver wings E
Any Alan Jackson, George strait, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John cougar Mellencamp, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, emmylou harris, B.B. king, Ray price, Bob wills, hank jr!
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Bobby Nelson
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 3:15 pm
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The little honky-tonk band I played with in Oct had a great list:
Thanks A Lot
I've Got Someone To Kill
Invitation To The Blues
Waiting For A Train
Who Stole That Train
City Lights
Next In Line
Downbound train
My House Of Memories
So Lonesome I Could Cry
Heartaches By The #
Sweet dreams
There Stands The Glass
Life To Go
A Way To Survive
And a lot of other classic stuff that was great. I'm hoping to get good enough to play with them again. |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 3:40 pm
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George Strait
• I Just Wanna Dance with You
• Wrapped
• Write This Down
• Amarillo by Morning
• One Step at a Time
Brooks & Dunn
• Neon Moon
Garth Brooks
• The Dance
Tim McGraw
• Something Like That
Hank Williams, Jr.
• Born to Boogie
Merle Haggard
• Big City
• Silver Wings
Johnny Cash
• Folsom Prison Blues
Willie, Waylon, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, more George Strait! |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 5:03 pm
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=330117 |
Thus demonstrating that speed picking is based upon economy of movement, not how fast you type. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 12:39 am
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The songs listed above are a nice reference point. The bands that I work with, while they use a set-list, they are not in concrete. Each band probably has a 200 + master list off to the side which is used to "change things up" during the gig.
You just never know when it's time for a 3/4 . OR NOT ! 
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Steve Rosko
From:
Georgetown, Texas
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 6:03 am Set lists
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I see that the OP is in Texas. Those of you that play in TX, do you mostly play 2 Steps and Waltz?
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2018 2:08 am
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| That's right Tony. The guys I played with don't ever rehearse, they just all know the songs and gather from different parts of the state to do gigs. They may talk on the phone before to talk about a general idea of what they may be playing. |
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David Mitchell
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 18 Apr 2018 1:39 pm
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| I've played steel in Texas tonks all my life and if you can't do anything else you can work all you want just doing 4/4 shuffles. Any shuffle but make sure you have a bass player and drummer that can drive a shuffle up their kazoo. They always attract dancers and liquor sales go up which makes the club owner happy. The latest charted songs bomb in a Texas Tonk. They sometimes bomb for the artist that just recorded it. Takes a long time before a recording is dear to the hearts of the listeners but like fine wine good music keeps getting better with age. |
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Jonathan Shacklock
From:
London, UK
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Posted 19 Apr 2018 8:00 am
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Here's a good setlist thread from 2003: https://steelguitarforum.com/Forum10/HTML/003473.html
My band's current list of covers - bare in mind we play in the UK so this probably has no relation to what goes down well in Texas(!?)
A Satisfied Mind
Are You Ready For The Country
Ain't No Love Around / Pick Up The Tempo
Bartender’s Blues
The Bottle Let Me Down
Burn Another Honkytonk Down
Before You Go
Bloody Mary Morning/Heaven And Hell
Cash Cocaine / Folsom Prison Blues
California Cotton Fields
Close Up The Honkytonks
Crazy
Carmelita
Dire Wolf
East Bound And Down
Get Up Jake
Honky Tonk Blues
Hometown Blues
Houston Kid
If We Make It Through December
If You’ve Got The Money
It’s The Bottle Talking
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Jambalaya
London Homesick Blues
Lonesome, On'ry And Mean
Mama Tried
On The Road Again
Old Country Waltz
Pan-American
Pretend I Never Happened/Still Can’t Believe That You’re Gone
The Race Is On
Reuben James
Ring of Fire
Rhinestone Cowboy
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Steel Guitar Rag
Sin City
Streets Of Baltimore
Six Days On The Road
Swinging Doors
Take This Job And Shove It
That's Alright Mama
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Together Again/Above and Beyond
Wanted Man
Whiskey River
Wichita Lineman
Working Man’s Blues
You Know That I Know
You’re Still On My Mind |
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