Best songs to play alone on acoustic guitar

[Oldguitarguy]

I am assembling a list of songs to play on acoustic by myself. Below is a list I came up with so far. Anyone have any favorites that sound good on one acoustic guitar, with or without singing?

Standard Tuning
The Weight
Layla
Friend of the Devil
Something
Thank You
Wish You Were Here
Norwegian Wood
Simple Man
12 Bar Blues
Yesterday

Open E
She Walks with Angels

Drop D
Harvest Moon

 

[Syco]

Red River Valley - C major

 

[SoundDesign]

Steve Earle - The Mountain

 

[mitch_cumsteen]

My favorites in no particular order:

Tears In Heaven
Wonderful Tonight
Lola
Take It Easy
Badfish
Ripple
Here Comes The Sun
And maybe a few more....

The reason I like these is because they're pretty easy to play and sing-along too.

 

[Uncle Joe]

Finger picking ones that I like, with singing:
Blackbird
The Boxer
House of the Rising Sun/Amazing Grace
Operator ( So many great Jim Croce tunes)
Mean Old World
Before You Accuse Me
Love in Vain
Nature's Way
Vincent
Speak Softly Love (Godfather Theme)
Blue Skies
San Tropez
Everyone Says I Love You
This Guy's In Love With You
Hallelujah
Santa Lucia
Sitting in Limbo

 

[porkpie]

12 bar blues, keep practicing it and it will help you to become proficient in playing many, many songs and help your finger dexterity.

 

[Uncle Joe]

12 bar blues, keep practicing it and it will help you to become proficient in playing many, many songs and help your finger dexterity.

I feel the same way about Travis picking. Just a couple of patterns really help to make songs that I've been playing for years, with a flat pick, sound so much better. Just coordination and speed, so I'm doing my best to practice three times a day, twice a day when work is busy.

 

[SubSailer671]

Following the Drop D box:

Please Come to Boston
Make Love Stay (Dan Fogelberg)

 

[Uncle Joe]

Following the Drop D box:

Please Come to Boston
Make Love Stay (Dan Fogelberg)

I was just playing Please Come to Boston. I never tried it in drop D. Oops. I'll give it a shot.

 

[SubSailer671]

I was just playing Please Come to Boston. I never tried it in drop D. Oops. I'll give it a shot.

This is how I learned it:

 

[DougMen]

I always like Neil Young songs from Harvest and After The Gold Rush, and songs from CSN's first album and CSNY Deja Vu. Also, songs from Dave Mason's first album Alone Together, and some Steve Winwood tunes, like 40,000 Headman. Also, some earlier Beatles, like It's Only Love, I've Just Seen a Face, and Hey, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.

 

[SUMMER_69]

If you can have someone do a good Steve Gadd like cajon then Chuck E's in Love is pretty cool.

 

[2k5Bullet]

Angie - Rolling Stones
Rain - The Cult
Just a bunch this guy has done on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/@Normzy67Metallicafan/videos

 

[Robb]

Kathy's song (Simon and Garfunkel )

 

[Bob the builder]

Anything Croce, Chapin, or Taylor

 

[Oldguitarguy]

Wanted Dead or Alive

 

[Big George]

Tom Rush -"The Circle Game" album.

 

[ChefYetti]

I’m only here to make sure Ripple was mentioned. It was. I’m happy.

 

[Slacker G]

You'll need a poorly set up guitar to play Norwegian Wood and make it sound like a sitar.

 

[yegbert]

This one, naturally.