What tunes has your band added recently?

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 23 Sep 2002 9:58 am

We've added a few songs to our rotation recently.
1. Lay You Down (Daryl Singletary Version)
2. Cadillac Tears Kevin Denney
3. You Ain't Just Whistling Dixie Bellamy Bro
4. Ten Rounds Tracy Byrd

I like them all except the Tracy Byrd tune which I consider ignorant. My favorite is the Bellamy Brothers tune, though Cadillac Tears is fun to play.

What have you all added?

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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 23 Sep 2002 10:22 am

"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You" (Nat King Cole version)
"I Mean You" (T. Monk)
"Apple Core"
"Bad Is Bad"

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 23 Sep 2002 12:00 pm

Well, we just added "To Much Fun" by Commander Cody, and now we are working on "Steeling Corn" by The Strangers.

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 23 Sep 2002 4:16 pm

Steve,
If you think Ten Rounds is ignorant how about "She Thinks My Tractor is Sexy"? To me that title says exactly what's happend to country music in the last ten years. We haven't added any new songs. We haven't found any that are country enough! There's enough old tunes to play that are more into the vain of what we like and the crowd we play for. This bunch will dance to a steel instrumental whether it's a slow ballad or a shuffle. My kind of crowd!

John Vaughan · Post by **John Vaughan** » 23 Sep 2002 9:33 pm

We play mostly original material but recently added It's Alright To Be a Redneck (Alan Jackson), Where the Sidewalk Ends (George Strait), and Man of Me (Gary Allen). I like the George Strait tune and the others don't offend me...I like the line in Redneck "It's alright to have a girl named Thelma Lou, who don't mind a little kiss when you got a little chew". Now that's poetry.

JV

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 23 Sep 2002 10:05 pm

We just learned the "Fishin Song" (Brad Paisley) and "Bar Exam" (The Derailers).

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 25 Sep 2002 4:06 am

How about A11 a remake of the Buck Owens song by Daryl Singletary.

Larry Behm

Michael Haselman · Post by **Michael Haselman** » 25 Sep 2002 5:26 am

We've also added "Fishin' Song" by Brad Paisley. Learning that steel solo and ending lick is very good practice.

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Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 25 Sep 2002 5:54 am

Well they added The Fishin' song to the lineup, but the bad news is I play the Tele' not the Steel . They also add as many up tempo tunes as they can fit in the space of 60 minutes. I like the guys in the band pretty good but they would rather me play the Tele' and rock out and sing a few rather than the tunes that demand the sweet Steel. I need to have a sit down with the guys and explain the facts the way I see it ...
tp

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 25 Sep 2002 8:40 am

Frank, our band is adding "She Thinks My Tractor Is Sexy" this week, really

. And "Trashy Women" Joe

Steve England · Post by **Steve England** » 25 Sep 2002 4:56 pm

The band that I'm gigging regularly with have recently added "The Race is On" to the set. Now this is strange they are not a country band .But the wierd thing is the guitar player knew it as a Dave Edmunds song and the singer knew it as a Sawyer Brown song. Only the drummer knew about George Jones!!!! And this is Texas dammit!!!!

The other song they have recently added is "Family Tradition" A really strange choice for a cover song because of it's real autobiographical nature.

The rest of the songs are originals...thank goodness!

By the way Steve I'm using your old Mullen again at the moment the Emmons has gone all stiff on me.[This message was edited by Steve England on 25 September 2002 at 05:57 PM.]

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 26 Sep 2002 9:41 am

My band recently added a tune specifically to show off my steel playing. This is a great song for steel. I really get off playing it, and everybody really loves it.

The song is Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix.

No kidding.

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Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 26 Sep 2002 10:18 am

Mike,
Would you be kind enough to post some tab of this.... that is very interesting.

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 26 Sep 2002 3:11 pm

Joe,
We do Trashy Women too!
Mike P,
You're a true rocker!
I think the youngest guy in this band is 43 and the oldest is 65 so we've got some songs! There's nothing like experience when you need it. I've been in this group for 3 years and still hear tunes we've never done before.

seldomfed · Post by **seldomfed** » 26 Sep 2002 3:23 pm

Honey Pie - beatles
A Train
On A Coconut Island
In The Mood

You didn't say which band

chris www.book-em-danno.com

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Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 26 Sep 2002 3:49 pm

For me, the question is more like: "What have they been talking about adding for months now...?" Something different for a change and some of my favorite steel tunes:

Panama Red - NRPS
Almost To Tulsa - Texas Troubadours
Wacky Walk - Joe Goldmark
You And I And The July Moon - Brooklyn Cowboys

Now if they don´t actually start on those soon but come up with more of that NCS stuff again instead, I´ll get seriously p#$$ed off!

Jeff Coffell · Post by **Jeff Coffell** » 27 Sep 2002 4:13 am

Steve

As you well know, we haven't added any "NEW" songs in years. We've added a bunch of old traditional country. If anything is newer than 20 years ago, I really don't care for most of the stuff that is being played on todays COUNTRY RADIO. But again, you know me very well and know where I'm comming from.

Jeff "PLUMB COUNTRY" Coffell

jim milewski · Post by **jim milewski** » 27 Sep 2002 1:42 pm

we're working out the bobbe seymour tune "She made fun of my apartment, so I knocked her flat"

BobG · Post by **BobG** » 30 Sep 2002 6:05 pm

Mustang Sally
Bar Exam
Chasing Amy
The Good Stuff
next up: Hotel California... looking forward to working the steel in for all that twin lead work.

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Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 1 Oct 2002 3:35 am

Well I played the "STEEL" card and commented to the band leader last week that I didn't need to rehearse Route 66 anymore at rehearsals, I think after 35 years I've got that one down. I told them that new tunes were in order ..and low and behold , 3 new tunes last night where I play steel on all three.

-I just Want to Dance with you
-1 Round of whatever that Tequila is..
-Write this down

Now if we ( the band ) can just all play them at the same time in the same key...

there's hope

tp

Michael Haselman · Post by **Michael Haselman** » 1 Oct 2002 6:25 am

We just learned "If That Ain't Country" last night and if there's anything country about that piece of NCS, somebody would have to point it out to me.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 1 Oct 2002 9:30 am

Now that summer's over, Open Hearts is starting to rehearse some new tunes for the next season. John Reese is prolific as ever - our biggest problem is deciding which of his new tunes to work up. Also, Nancy has written a wonder country-rock tune with a groove that reminds me of The Allman Brothers "Blue Sky", and I've written two new ones and collaborated with John on a third one.

It will be good to have some new material. We've nailed the old set lists perfectly a number of times this past summer. New songs add tension, and keep the crowds coming back for more.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 1 Oct 2002 9:41 am

Mike P. - "Little Wing" is a great tune for steel. We used to do it in The Left Coast Band, years ago, when NRPS-veteran Fred Campbell sat in on guitar. I wasn't the featured player (Fred was), but I really enjoyed soloing over those changes.

Gord Cole · Post by **Gord Cole** » 1 Oct 2002 10:57 am

Our band has no focus nor taste. Last nite we worked on:
Locomotive Breath-Jethro Tull
Valerie-Richard Thompson
Carmalita-Dwight Yokum (?)
White Rose-Fred Eaglesmith
Hit Me Baby One More Time-Britney Spears
Dead Flowers-Rolling Stones
Only our closest friends ever show up at one of our infrequent gigs.
Regards, Gord

DJ Sillito · Post by **DJ Sillito** » 1 Oct 2002 12:08 pm

Here's a few we added:
"Laredo"
"I'm a work in progress"
"Burnin' the roadhouse down"
"Swingin' Doors"
(Yes! a little Merle does the body good)
I Have to say that we added the fishin' song a few weeks ago and we get a kick out of playing it everytime. I like the steel exit!
Too cool!

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