Campfire Music?

[DLANOIE]

Im an avid guitar player. I am going car camping in a couple weeks. I am looking for some good guitar licks I can play around the fire at night. Any suggestions?

[The Grip]

yeah--that Allman Bros. song "little martha"

[DLANOIE]

Im not familiar with that one, I'll look it up.

Thanks!

[DLANOIE]

Awesome song, thanks for the suggestion Grip!

[Old Hiker]

Free Bird! FREEEEEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIIIIIRD!!!!!!!

Seriously, Classical Gas - Mason Williams - 1968. Doesn't have to be played fast, either.

This site (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6421) has a small video screen you can hear the original without the orchestral arrangement of later.

[hikerboy57]

Check out:http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/. maybe the greatest acoustic guitarist on the planet.
anything by dan tyminski.

[DLANOIE]

Yeah Freebird, everybody wants to hear that one for sure! Classical Gas, I never heard it but it is a great piece thanks for the suggestion.

Tommy Emmanuel is just AMAZING! Thats what Im talking about right there. Great suggestions.

[HIKERJEN]

Yeah Freebird, everybody wants to hear that one for sure! Classical Gas, I never heard it but it is a great piece thanks for the suggestion.

Tommy Emmanuel is just AMAZING! Thats what Im talking about right there. Great suggestions.

Good luck learning Tommy's tunes in a few days- they're not easy !!!!

[DLANOIE]

Good luck learning Tommy's tunes in a few days- they're not easy !!!!

Nope! I honestly dont plan on learning his tunes in just a couple weeks. I will however play some tunes similar, just not as good as Tommy!

[wvgrinder]

I met him at a Dead show back in 1989. Listen to Road Kill. Great stuff. http://raccoonsongs.com/

[jeneliya]

1. House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
2. Let It Be – The Beatles
3. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
4. Time of your Life – Green Day
5. Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan
6. Our House – Crosby, Still Nash & Young
7. Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House
8. Something Inside so Strong – Labi Siffre
9. Love Song - The Cure
10. True Colours – Cyndi Lauper
11. Hotel California -The Eagles
12. In the Ghetto – Elvis Presley
13. Leaving On A Jet Plane – Frank Sinatra
14. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) – Harry Belafonte
15. Fire and Rain – James Taylor
16. Hallelujah – John Cale
17. Working Class Hero – John Lennon
18. Take me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
19. Wandering Star – Lee Marvin
20. California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas
21.Redemption Song – Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash
22. Talkin’ About a Revolution – Tracy Chapman
23. Daydream Believer – The Monkees
24. Down in Albion – Baby Shambles
25. Forever In Blue Jeans – Neil Diamond
26. Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Neil Young
27. Come As You Are – Nirvana
28. (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
29. Baby, I Love your Way – Peter Frampton
30. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
31. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
32. King of the Road – The Proclaimers
33. Everybody Hurts – R.E.M.
34. Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack
35. Vincent – Don McLean

[grayfox]

People will stop to listen but they will stay to sing along...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...campfire+songs
Campfire songs at amazon-- I like the Peter, Paul, and Mary classic, 'Around the Campfire' and there is a book of the music you can get.

[Old Hiker]

Can't You See by the Marshall Tucker band: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/blow/cantyousee.htm - small screen to the right to hear the song.

Just change the lyrics:

Can't you see, can't you seeeee,
What that AT, be doin' to meeeee.
Can't you see, oh, can't you seeeee,
What that AT, be doin' to me.

Gonna do a thru- hike, a nice little thru-hike,
Going up to Katahdin.
As soon as I started, looked to the sky-i
Looks like rain, comin' down again!

Can't you see.... etc. etc. etc.

Everyone should have a stanza for this one.

[hikerboy57]

"First there is a mountain, then there is a mountain, then there is."- Donovan(allman bros mountain jam)

[Spokes]

"Long Black Veil"........... surely someone around the fire will wish someone would cry over their bones.

[DLANOIE]

"Long Black Veil"........... surely someone around the fire will wish someone would cry over their bones.

Forgive my ignorance but, who sing this tune?

[Old Hiker]

Forgive my ignorance but, who sing this tune?

Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. A saga song, "Long Black Veil" is told from the point of view of an executed man falsely accused of murder. He refuses to provide an alibi, since on the night of the murder he was having an affair with his best friend's wife, and would rather die and take their secret to his grave than admit the truth. The chorus describes the woman's mourning visits to his gravesite, wearing a long black veil and enduring a wailing wind.

Wikipedia

[charmstr]

As to who sings it, the answer is lots and lots of people. My iPod includes David Gray, Everett, Bea, and Everett Allan Lilly, The Chieftains (with Mick Jagger), Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, The Band, Bill Monroe, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Marianne Faithful. AllMusic.com lists well over 400 different recordings of it.

[Spokes]

I like The Band's rendition best of all.