WARNING!! MUSIC THREAD!

[AlanC]

I bought strings and put them on my D18 and this old Yamaha beater that Jerry gave me a decade or so ago. Then I thought- what now? I can't go the bluegrass route again. I tried and failed when I was much younger. Flatpicking comes at a glacial place and leaves like a 747. I don't have enough years left to make it to chump status. So what the heck am I going to do? What is the point? I would love to be Bethany's sideman but she is a flight attendant with a crazy schedule.

my music book with everything Jerry and I used to do laid around underfoot for years and the last few months of downsizing and moving into a 5th wheel has caused it to drop down the rabbit hole so I didn't have one sheet of music to pull out.So just to have something to "play" I started thinking and poking around. What to do, what to do?

The only music that my inner eye could see me doing was mostly '80s and '90s Country music with a sprinkling of older and new songs. Mostly easy cowboy chords with a minor or two- maybe.

So until something else comes along this is what I have downloaded to work on:
500 Miles from home (Bobby Bare)
Blue ain't your color (Keith Urban)
Blue side of the mountain (Chris Stapleton)
Broken Halos (Chris Stapleton)
Blue Sky (Allmans)
Chiseled in Stone (Vern Gosdin)
Heaven Sent (Chris Stapleton)
Help me hold on (Travis Tritt)
Here in the real world (Alan Jackson)
He's got you (Brooks & Dun)
Killing Time (Clint Black)
Melissa (Allmans)
Nobody's Home (Clint Black)
Old Flame (Alabama)
Please call home (Allmans)
Traveller (Chris Stapleton)
Whenever you come around (Vince Gill)
Momma don't forget to pray for me (Diamond Rio)
You put the hurt on me (Chris Stapleton)
21 Summer (Brothers Osborne)

I don't know if I can do some of these but I guess I will try.

I also got some stuff for Bethany but other than some Brandi Carlisle stuff she hasn't told me what she wants to do.

My fingers are coming along but the voice is really rough. I know we are not a good judge of what we sound like but I'm pretty sure I have lost a ton of range. I don't know if it comes back- hope so.

[Marty]

You can always throw a few Beatles in there, doesn't mean you have to play them to a hard core country crowd.

[Village Idiot]

I have this feeling that you are a lot better than you make yourself out to be, and whatever you play will be great. Many of us have heard you before.

[aquaduct]

Jul 6, 2018 10:04:04 GMT -5 AlanC said:

I bought strings and put them on my D18 and this old Yamaha beater that Jerry gave me a decade or so ago. Then I thought- what now? I can't go the bluegrass route again. I tried and failed when I was much younger. Flatpicking comes at a glacial place and leaves like a 747. I don't have enough years left to make it to chump status. So what the heck am I going to do? What is the point? I would love to be Bethany's sideman but she is a flight attendant with a crazy schedule.

my music book with everything Jerry and I used to do laid around underfoot for years and the last few months of downsizing and moving into a 5th wheel has caused it to drop down the rabbit hole so I didn't have one sheet of music to pull out.So just to have something to "play" I started thinking and poking around. What to do, what to do?

The only music that my inner eye could see me doing was mostly '80s and '90s Country music with a sprinkling of older and new songs. Mostly easy cowboy chords with a minor or two- maybe.

So until something else comes along this is what I have downloaded to work on:
500 Miles from home (Bobby Bare)
Blue ain't your color (Keith Urban)
Blue side of the mountain (Chris Stapleton)
Broken Halos (Chris Stapleton)
Blue Sky (Allmans)
Chiseled in Stone (Vern Gosdin)
Heaven Sent (Chris Stapleton)
Help me hold on (Travis Tritt)
Here in the real world (Alan Jackson)
He's got you (Brooks & Dun)
Killing Time (Clint Black)
Melissa (Allmans)
Nobody's Home (Clint Black)
Old Flame (Alabama)
Please call home (Allmans)
Traveller (Chris Stapleton)
Whenever you come around (Vince Gill)
Momma don't forget to pray for me (Diamond Rio)
You put the hurt on me (Chris Stapleton)
21 Summer (Brothers Osborne)

I don't know if I can do some of these but I guess I will try.

I also got some stuff for Bethany but other than some Brandi Carlisle stuff she hasn't told me what she wants to do.

My fingers are coming along but the voice is really rough. I know we are not a good judge of what we sound like but I'm pretty sure I have lost a ton of range. I don't know if it comes back- hope so.

Dude, maybe for the first time ever here you've posted a list where I actually know at least half the songs. If you can do those even halfway decently so someone normal like me could sing along, you're golden. Brilliant strategy.

Good luck bud.

[RickW]

All you can do is try. And some concerted, considered practice does wonders.

[Tamarack]

Good stuff on that list, particularly "Blue Sky"