Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Porter Hill Live Playlist?







So what are we listening to and wanting to play and sing this year?

7 comments:

Ea said...

Could you give your current top 10 playable tunes -new stuff or oldies but goodies so we can start refining our melodic palettes?

JennyJJ said...

Don't think twice, it's alright
helplessly hoping
wish i was the moon
everything's gonna be undone
anything Eagles/Beatles
angel from montgomery
chuck e's in love?
Me & Bobby McGee?
Slip Sliding Away/ still crazy after all these years/ mother & child reunion/etc
John Denver...
OOPS!!!!! Sorry-- was thinking of singables.... lemme consult the iPod...

JennyJJ said...

Falling or Flying-- Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Seether-- Veruca Salt
Heaven When We're Home-- Wailin' Jennys
Happy-- Brandy Carlisle
A Storm is Going to Come-- Piers Faccini
Rowing Song-- Patty Griffin
Rise-- Sally Dworsky
Don't Cha Wanna Ride-- Joss Stone
Delia's Gone-- Eric Bibb
Big Black Wall-- Etienne de Rocher

It's a motley assortment-- none of it terribly new-- feel free to take or leave it!

Mim said...

This is a combined Mim/Jo list...so it may seem a wee bit fractured. We're also invoking the 2 people = twice as many songs rule :)

Anything by Earth Wind & Fire (ask Mim if you need any of the songs)
Papa Dukie & the Mud People by the Subdudes (JJJ and I committed to learn it to play on the uke)
Home -- Phillip Phillips
Anything by Nina Simone (if you're struggling for one song, I Shall Be Released is a classic)
I Want You Back -- Jackson 5
Killing Me Softly -- Lauryn Hill
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off -- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Suddenly -- Olivia Newton John
All Over the World -- ELO
Midnight Train to Georgia -- Gladys Knight
On Children -- Sweet Honey in the Rock
All I Want -- Joni Mitchell
Like a Star -- Corinne Bailey Rae
Canned Heat -- Jamiroquai
Lovely Day -- Billy Withers
Okay It's All Right With Me -- Eric Hutchinson
Say A Little Prayer -- Aretha Franklin
Rodeo Clowns -- Jack Johnson
1963 -- Rachael Yamagata
Girl from Ipanema -- Gilberto Getz

and as a bonus song:
Sweet Thing -- Chaka Khan

Hayley said...

The Deadbeat Club, B-52s
Starfish and Coffee, Prince
I'm so Tired of Being Alone, Al Green
April Come She Will, Simon and Garfunkle
Sugar Mountain, Neal Young
Don't Do It, The Band
Man We Was Lonely, Beatles
Oh Yoko, John Lennon
Sweet Soul Dream, World Party
Message in a Box, World Party
When the Rainbow Comes, World Party
Wondering Where the Lions Are, Bruce Cockburn
Is it Like Today, World Party

anna said...

im' late to chiming in here, but we recently played "oh the coocoo, she's a pretty bird" which i know is an old folk song, but also was done by kristen hersh (throwning musese fame)

also recently sang "kiling me softly"

and 'the name she gave was caroline... " tecumsah valley. damn, they were all fun to sing.

Ea said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnS9M03F-fA

This version is a little low key, but this is a great old (dare i say it) 70s song that could be a great sing a long