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Song ideas for a new to me, but very old style


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When I play acoustically and solo, I get a lot of compliments about my "lonesome" sound. well, others have had other adjectives for it, but that one was my favorite.

So I'm seriously thinking of changing my setlist from the bluesy oriented thing to more of a sound like Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, John Prine.

What do you do that would fit that genre? I'm also working in the occasional Merle Haggard type stuff, just because I like it.

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Well, if you're cool with the first three plus Merle, you can probably handle any country or country & western song that you like.

Here's a rather long list of my very favorite country songs :

Alan Jackson Here In the Real World
Alison Krauss You Say it Best When You Say Nothing at All
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys New San Antonio Rose
Buck Owens Act Naturally
Buck Owens Buckaroo
Buck Owens Johnny B. Goode
Buck Owens Together Again
Buck Owens Under Your Spell Again
Buck Owens & Rose Maddox Loose Talk
Charlie Pride The Last Thing on My Mind
Charlie Pride Just Between You and Me
Charlie Pride Shutters and Boards
Charlie Pride Six Days on the Road
Dan Seals Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)
Dave Dudley Six Days On the Road
Doc Watson Tennessee Stud
Doc Watson Way Downtown
Dolly Parton Jolene
Don Gibson Oh Lonesome Me
Don Gibson Sea of Heartbreak
Don Gibson Blue Blue Day
Don Williams She Never Knew Me (Single Version)
Don Williams Good Ole Boys Like Me (Single Version)
Don Williams Amanda
Don Williams I Don't Think About Her No More
Emmylou Harris Beneath Still Waters
Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham
Emmylou Harris One of These Days
Emmylou Harris Sweet Dreams (Live)
Emmylou Harris (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date
Emmylou Harris Pancho and Lefty
Emmylou Harris & Don Williams If I Needed You
Everly Brothers All I Have To Do Is Dream
Everly Brothers Devoted To You
Everly Brothers Let It Be Me
Everly Brothers So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
Everly Brothers Love Hurts
Everly Brothers Barbara Allen
Floyd Cramer Last Date
George Jones All I have to Offer You is Me
George Jones A Good Year for the Roses
George Jones Old Brush Arbors
George Jones Tender Years
George Jones They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
George Jones Things have Gone to Pieces
George Jones Say It's Not You
George Jones She Thinks I Still Care
George Jones The Race is On
George Jones White Lightning
George Jones Faded Love
George Jones Not What I had in Mind
George Jones A Girl I Used to Know
George Jones I'll Share My Word With You
George Jones The Window Up Above
George Jones & Melba Montgomery We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds
Gram Parsons Streets of Baltimore
Gram Parsons Brass Buttons
Gram Parsons Cash on the Barrelhead / Hickory Wind
Gram Parsons In My Hour of Darkness
Gram Parsons Love Hurts
Gram Parsons Return of the Grievous Angel
Hank Snow (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I
Hank Snow I'm Moving On
Hank Snow Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
Hank Snow I've Been Everywhere
Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams Jambalaya, On the Bayou
Hank Williams Mansion On the Hill
Hank Williams Move It On Over
Hank Williams Your Cheatin' Heart
Hank Williams Half As Much
Hank Williams Lost Highway
Ian Tyson Navajo Rug
Ian Tyson Summer Wages
Ian Tyson Old Cheyenne
Ian Tyson Four Strong Winds
Jim Reeves He'll Have To Go
Jimmie Davis You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Rodgers Blue Yodel (Mule Skinner)
Jimmie Rodgers Waiting For A Train
Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash Five Feet High and Rising
Johnny Cash Guess Things Happen That Way
Johnny Cash I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash The Ways of a Woman In Love
Johnny Cash Get Rhythm
Johnny Cash Wreck of the Old 97
Johnny Cash Ring of Fire
Kathy Mattea Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Lefty Frizzell Saginaw, Michigan
Lefty Frizzell Long Black Veil
Lefty Frizzell Stranger
Lefty Frizzell My Rough and Rowdy Ways
Lucinda Williams Drunken Angel
Lyle Lovett God Will
Lyle Lovett If I Were The Man You Wanted
Lyle Lovett The Waltzing Fool
Marty Robbins El Paso
Maybelle Carter I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
Maybelle Carter Keep on the Sunny Side
Maybelle Carter Wildwood Flower
Maybelle Carter Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Merle Haggard Sing Me Back Home
Merle Haggard Today I Started Loving You Again
Merle Haggard What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
Merle Haggard Carolyn
Merle Haggard If We Make it Through December
Merle Haggard Silver Wings
Merle Travis Dark as a Dungeon
Merle Travis Nine Pound Hammer
Patsy Cline Faded Love
Patsy Cline Crazy
Patsy Cline I Fall to Pieces
Patsy Cline She's Got You
Patsy Cline Sweet Dreams
Patsy Cline Walking After Midnight
Randy Travis On The Other Hand
Randy Travis The Storms Of Life
Randy Travis Diggin' Up Bones
Randy Travis No Place Like Home
Randy Travis 1982
Ray Price Crazy Arms
Ray Price City Lights
Ray Price Heartaches By the Number
Ray Price I've Got a New Heartache
Riders In The Sky Wasteland
Rodney Crowell 'Til I Gain Control Again
Roger Miller King Of The Road
Rosanne Cash The Way We Make a Broken Heart
Roy Acuff I Saw the Light
Slim Critchlow The Brazos River
Slim Critchlow The Trusty Lariat
The Sons of the Pioneers Cool Water
The Sons Of The Pioneers Tumbling Tumbleweeds
The Sons of the Pioneers Way out There
Tom T. Hall Pamela Brown
Webb Pierce I Don't Care
Webb Pierce In the Jailhouse Now
Webb Pierce Slowly
Webb Pierce There Stand the Glass
Wilf Carter Blue Canadian Rockies
Willie Nelson Funny How Time Slips Away
Willie Nelson Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

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You guys pretty much covered everything I was going to say verbatim. I didn't see Cold, Cold Heart on the Hank list. I like that one for a good yodelin' bawl.
I actually have that Louvin Brothers album on vinyl.
I wish we could all sit down with these lists and jam! I LOVE old country. If there was one style of music I could play exclusively 'til I die, that would be it.

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