I know not everyone will care about the "why", but does anyone have any harmonica One-Man-Band song suggestions?
I am up to about 15 tunes now and looking to add more....I've tried to rip off anything I could find from those using harmonica and effects like a looper. I did also ordered an acoustic stompbox and some hand percussion. I can essentially do the harpboxing type stuff or the real-time OMB stuff. I am not saying I am great at it, but I have the flexibility.
I have a gig on October 7 and have a guitar player coming for a couple sets. My original idea was to do 9-11 songs solo mixed in with doing duo tunes. However, I am going to push to learn closer to 20 just for my own well being, and in hopes I can play closer to two sets by year's end.
Songs I will for sure play the 7th that people here might be familiar with:
Let My Baby Ride - RL Burnside
Grinnin In Your Face - Son House
Hellhound - Son of Dave
Danced All Night - Son of Dave
Guilty - Son of Dave
Crossroads - kinda my own arrangement
Sunshine of Your Love - kinda like Adam's but more psychadelic
Hey Joe - new arrangement
Right Side of Heaven - Otis Taylor
Love and Hesitation - Otis Taylor
Hands on Your Stomach - Otis Taylor (not totally ready with this one)
Low Rider - own arrangement
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley (not Zhin's arrangement)
Forget You - Cee Lo
My Babe - totally ripped off from Zhin
and I have 5 originals that are ready to go to...almost all with a bluesy feel.
I can also whip out Nine Below Zero, Another Man Done Gone, B Thing, and I think, Hoochie Coohie Man.
I am kinda stuck with ideas for new songs friendly to the format that I want to play, though. I am looking for stuff that has mass appeal, or at least mass blues appeal.
I posted for ideas at Harmony Central and got some really good ideas - songs that are riff based or the same progression throughout like What I Got, and other pretty much classic rock tunes, but this crew would probably know better and help with more blues based stuff.
I did noodle with a few "pop" songs like ET, but that is probably too over the top right now. It took me the better part of a year to learn the above, BUT, I am at the point where learning new stuff goes pretty fast now.
Thanks! I don't recall this being a thread topic yet, but my apologies if it was or if I've even asked this before. I am extremely sleep deprived at that moment, lol.
Deak Harp has a tune called Mad Dog 20/20 that he busks with. YouTube it. It's not bad at all. ---------- Hawkeye Kane
Last Edited by on Sep 21, 2011 7:07 AM
What an obvious one! Perfect, thanks! I can't believe I thought of Hoochie and not that one. I am a dumbass. ---------- Mike Quicksilver Custom Harmonicas
Jesus Gonna Be Here (Tom Waits) Louisiana 1929 Parchman Farm It's Too Late Brother - Little Walter Some Bo Diddley (though sounds challenging on foot drums), maybe Mellow Down Easy, Room to Move, I Wish You Would A rumba? Walking to My Baby (Fab Ts) Minor Mambo (Gary Smith) Why Get Up Shake Your Hips/hate to See You Go - Slim Harpo/ Little Walter
Glory Box (Portishead) Terrifying (Rolling stones) Chameleon (Herbie Hancock) Cissy Strut (The Meters) Rotcha Scribida (Cesaria Evora) Hit The Road, Jack Key To The Highway Amazing Grace Riders On The Storm When The Saints Go Marching In Amazing Grace Low Rider
Possible to use loop for most parts and play bridge with loop stopped.
Sweet Georgia Brown Miss You (Rolling Stones) Take Five Caravan
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