[Harp-L] Set Lists - I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours!

[Glenn and Debbie Woodhouse <gwoodhouse40@xxxxxxx>]

My band has recently booked a series of 4 hour gigs at a "Blues and Brews" night at a Microbrewery that is embedded in a large Red Lion Hotel.  This is a great venue, 200-300 people out on the decks, around the pool, and in the large bar.  We have played a couple of these now and they have gone great.  The problem is, we have just enough material to get through the four hours with extended solos and repeating 5-6 of the earlier songs toward the end of the night.  We need more material so we are not playing the same stuff each time.  We seem to only be adding 1-2 songs per week at practice so I am asking the Harp-L community's help in accelerating my quest for appropriate songs for our venues.  The set lists we have are working well, we just need more.  The "formula" I'm using is roughly one instrumental with a couple slow blues interspersed amonst 8-10 toe tapping fun tunes that have a good groove and rythm and a unique hook to differentiate it amongst the 25 other predominatly 12 bar blues tunes we are playing.  R&B tunes have been working well.  We do a little Zydeco and jazzy stuff as well.  Songs people know are a big plus.  So please take a look below to get the flavor of what we are doing and make song suggestions.  It would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Glenn Woodhouse

The ColdRail Blues Band

 

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Rollin' Man,  Peter Green/Fleetwood Mack
T-Bone Shuffle, T-Bone Walker
Killing Floor, Howlin' Wolf
The Thrill Is Gone, BB King
Walkin' Blues, Robert Johnson (ala Butterfield)
Tell Me Mama, Jackie Greene
Midnight Special, Lead Belly, Start slow and then break into a fast driving beat
Lonesome Bedroom Blues, William Clarke (slow blues)
Work Song, Nate/Cannonball Adderly, Inst. (ala Clarke & Butterfield)
Black Cat Bone, Albert Collins
Mustang Sally, Wilson Pickett
Red Rooster, Howlin' Wolf
Tore Down, Eric Clapton
Freeport Boulevard, Jackie Greene
Rock Me Baby, (slow blues - ala BB King)
Highway 49, Howlin' Wolf
Born in Chicago, Butterfield
Wang Dang Doodle, Willie Dixon
Walk That Talk, ColdRail Original (swingy/jazzy)
My Sunshine, ColdRail Original (think Little Walter's "She's So Fine")
Yesterday, Beau Jocque (Zydeco)
Mary Had a Little Lamb, Buddy Guy (ala SRV)
Hoochie Coochie Man, Willie Dixon
Cash Money (inst, William Clarke)
Baby What You Want Me To Do, Jimmy Reed
Gambling For My Bread, William Clarke
No Money, Johnny Ace (jazzy)
Midnight Hour, Wilson Pickett
Shake Your Money Maker, Elmore James (ala Butterfield)
Dog House, ColdRail Original
Blues With a Feeling, Little Walter (ala Butterfield)
Big Boss Man, Jimmy Reed (grooved up)
Got My Mojo Working, Preston Foster (ala Muddy Waters)
Blues Overtook Me, Charlie Musselwhite