So I'm starting a rock/ country band and we're picking out some music that we will be playing in bars. If you have any list of songs that have worked for you in bars that are good rock-country dancing songs, feel free to share! Thanks alot!








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how's 'bout "One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood?

that one would have to be a winner in a bar.








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Clutch- the mob goes wild, half of them never heard this song before but if u nail it they may love it

the old Pat Travers tune .."boom boom out go the lights" i dont remember if thats the name of it or not, but its a great bar song....it has that great sing a long part ...and you can really change it around easily...its a great classic tune.








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What I Got
Sweet Home Alabama
Pour Some Sugar on Me

seem to always win out.

[b]I've been doing this for a long long time. Longer than most of you. Here are some songs that work for us.
Mustang Sally
Old Time Rock & Roll
Sweet Home Alabama
Paranoid
Poor Some Sugar on Me
Shook Me All Night Long
Bad to the Bone
Margaritaville
Sunday Morning
Waitin' on the World to Change
Sharp Dressed Man
Play that Funky Music
Hollwood Swingin'
and the list goes on and on and on[/b]








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Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to fly.
Moody Blues - Nights in white satin
Santana - Black magic woman
Blue oyster cult - Dont fear the reaper
CCR - Fortunate son
Fleetwood mac - Rhiannon

This is all assuming its a good 'ol western type bar that has alot of older people doing slow dances. If its not ignore what I said








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I already mentioned our Talking Heads cover in another thread, which always went over well.

We also got a good response out of:
Social Distortion: I Was Wrong
Elvis Costello: Radio, Radio
The Pixies: Monkey's Gone To Heaven
The Pixies: Cover of "In Heaven" (from the movie eraserhead)

"In Heaven" is such a bizarre little song, but for whatever reason a lot of bar kids loved it.

Maybe everyone in our town is just completely whacked out! I wouldn't doubt it.

Train Train by Blackfoot
Highway song by Blackfoot
Long Hair Country Boy by Charles Daniels
Homesick Crover done by Travis Tirtt
Simple Man
All pretty easy to learn








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straitjacket85 wrote:

Train Train by Blackfoot
Highway song by Blackfoot
Long Hair Country Boy by Charles Daniels
Homesick Crover done by Travis Tirtt
Simple Man
All pretty easy to learn

GREAT selection of good bar toons!!! ('Simple Man' ALWAYS seems to get a huge reaction! Same with the song "Can't You See" by the Marshall Tucker Band!! Especially if you throw a couple of tempo shifts into the song and pick up the pace a bit, slow 'er back down and do that a couple times during the song. It works wonders!)








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our bands song list... we do have a girl singer so some of these wont work for you

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Allman Brothers - Stormy Monday
Allman Brothers - You Don’t Love Me
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
Beatles - Daytripper
Berry, Chuck - Johnny B. Goode
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Cash, Johnny - Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm
Cline, Patsy - Walking After Midnight
Collins, Albert - I Ain’t Drunk
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Green River
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin
Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Dylan, Bob - Knockin’ On Heavens Door
Elvis - Burning Love, Little sister
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Free - Alright Now
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jones, George - Help Me Make It Through The Night
King, BB - Rock Me, Baby
Led Zeppelin - Thank You, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song
Little Feat - Willin’
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Monkees - Steppin’ Stone, I'm a Believer
Paul Revere and the Radiers - Just Like Me
Pickett, Wilson - In The Midnight Hour
Prine, John - Angel From Montgomery
Raitt, Bonnie - Runaway
Ramones - Sedated
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers, Its All Over Now, Honky Tonk Woman
Ronstadt,/Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Ronstadt, Linda - When Will I Be Loved
Simon, Carly - You’re So Vain
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Talking Heads/Al Green-Take Me To The River
Vincent, Gene - Race with the Devil
Who - Can’t Explain
Williams, Hank - Hey Good Lookin’
Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
Yoakum, Dwight - Fast as You
ZZ Top - Tush, La Grange
ZZ Top - La Grange

and a couple of original tunes ... many of these songs are done our way, not as the original was done








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rod wrote:

our bands song list... we do have a girl singer so some of these wont work for you

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Allman Brothers - Stormy Monday
Allman Brothers - You Don’t Love Me
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
Beatles - Daytripper
Berry, Chuck - Johnny B. Goode
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Cash, Johnny - Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm
Cline, Patsy - Walking After Midnight
Collins, Albert - I Ain’t Drunk
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Green River
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin
Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Dylan, Bob - Knockin’ On Heavens Door
Elvis - Burning Love, Little sister
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Free - Alright Now
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Jones, George - Help Me Make It Through The Night
King, BB - Rock Me, Baby
Led Zeppelin - Thank You, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song
Little Feat - Willin’
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Monkees - Steppin’ Stone, I'm a Believer
Paul Revere and the Radiers - Just Like Me
Pickett, Wilson - In The Midnight Hour
Prine, John - Angel From Montgomery
Raitt, Bonnie - Runaway
Ramones - Sedated
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers, Its All Over Now, Honky Tonk Woman
Ronstadt,/Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Ronstadt, Linda - When Will I Be Loved
Simon, Carly - You’re So Vain
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Talking Heads/Al Green-Take Me To The River
Vincent, Gene - Race with the Devil
Who - Can’t Explain
Williams, Hank - Hey Good Lookin’
Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
Yoakum, Dwight - Fast as You
ZZ Top - Tush, La Grange
ZZ Top - La Grange

and a couple of original tunes ... many of these songs are done our way, not as the original was done

is it even possible to go wrong with Burning Love ?
that is one of my all time favorite songs.








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There's quite a number of killer songs in that set list from the Allman Bros. to ZZ TOP - too cool!!!








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Pavor Nocturnus wrote:

There's quite a number of killer songs in that set list from the Allman Bros. to ZZ TOP - too cool!!!

thanks.... its ok, we run pretty heavy on old stuff and the problem with that is, the older audience doesnt get out to the clubs that much anymore. Its tough to get a local following when half of your audience is at home asleep by the time you're hitting the stage!

but basically i hate most modern rock and have no desire to learn any of it. Theres some stuff i like but we'll leave that to the 40 billion other bands in this town.








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rod wrote:

Pavor Nocturnus wrote:

There's quite a number of killer songs in that set list from the Allman Bros. to ZZ TOP - too cool!!!

thanks.... its ok, we run pretty heavy on old stuff and the problem with that is, the older audience doesnt get out to the clubs that much anymore. Its tough to get a local following when half of your audience is at home asleep by the time you're hitting the stage!

but basically i hate most modern rock and have no desire to learn any of it. Theres some stuff i like but we'll leave that to the 40 billion other bands in this town.

great call !!!

you cant fake it ....if it dosent move you , it dosent move you.








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