What is your favorite song to play?

[Marco Polo]

I agree with Knight ... the one I'm trying to  learn well enough to play in front of people. Currently its Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive . My wife and I were in Phoenix a month ago and we almost always see this "Singing Cowboy -Marshall Pioneer Pepper "  He does Ol' Time Cowboy Songs like Happy Trails, Red River Valley,  Rawhide , etc.  We've seen him numerous times and he's always getting requests to play newer country  and he never does them , claiming that's not what he does...very understandable. This last time , however, on his last song,  he busted into the opening lick for "Wanted"  and proceeded to play it all the way through. It was great, the crowd loved it, and I said to myself " Ooh, there's one I can do. I've been having fun with it and I'm hoping to play it at my July open mic.

A great 12-string song...played on an awesome Taylor double-neck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDCUEyQJmc

http://www.richiesamboraguitars.com/acoustic/taylor-double-neck/

[AmericanEagle]

Stairway To Heaven

[Guitar Cowboy]

I agree with Knight ... the one I'm trying to  learn well enough to play in front of people. Currently its Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive . My wife and I were in Phoenix a month ago and we almost always see this "Singing Cowboy -Marshall Pioneer Pepper "  He does Ol' Time Cowboy Songs like Happy Trails, Red River Valley,  Rawhide , etc.  We've seen him numerous times and he's always getting requests to play newer country  and he never does them , claiming that's not what he does...very understandable. This last time , however, on his last song,  he busted into the opening lick for "Wanted"  and proceeded to play it all the way through. It was great, the crowd loved it, and I said to myself " Ooh, there's one I can do. I've been having fun with it and I'm hoping to play it at my July open mic.

A great 12-string song...played on an awesome Taylor double-neck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDCUEyQJmc

http://www.richiesamboraguitars.com/acoustic/taylor-double-neck/

I'm headed to a Roadshow tomorrow, Maybe its time to look at a Taylor 12 string. I agree, I love that Taylor double neck!!!

[Jersey tuning]

My version is 90% Tom, 10% me, and I do it in A, no capo; I like open strings. Any Joni influence is purely coincidental, probably Tom's fault. 

Heh Heh

[donlyn]

I see you got my little 'joke', after I played on your phrasing.

I do base my version on Tom Rush, but Joni wrote the song of course.

[MTLeonard]

Wagon Wheel.

No extra comment needed   

[MrHarryReems]

My favorite song to play is called Twelve, because it's so beautiful.  We play it at every single show.

Here we are playing it at The Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Oahu in April.  Sorry for the Larrivee, but I don't take my 814 off of this island.  I usually travel with my T5z, but I usually do some purely acoustic sessions with other musicians when we play Oahu.

[letutur]

I love playing cat stevens Sad lisa. Not very difficult finger style and great warm up

[Grum]

My fave is Dirty Old Town.  Its the only tune I can play but with some finger picking n some strumming, its great. Soon my fave will be Bookends by SnG which I should imagine, most folk will find easy but still a struggle for me. And coming up on the horizon is Blackbird which I am sure will take me to Easter to learn. Slowly but surely x

[Jersey tuning]

A more recent favorite is "Walk Beside Me" by Tim O'Brien, with honorable mention to S & G's "Homeward Bound"

[mgap]

Skating Away (On The Thin Ice of a New Day)

[donlyn]

"Apache", based off the Jorgen Ingmann version (not the Hank Marvin/Shadows one), is still my favourite instrumental. (See reply #2 to this thread.)

Turns out that vocal with guitar changes a lot, certainly month to month if not week to week. 
"Here Comes the Sun" is always near or top of my charts, and has been that way since the sixties. About the only song I play on a guitar with a capo. Originally did it in "A" with open chords, now still in "A", but with a capo 7th and "D" form pattern on six-string. Play it on Uke "D" pattern open, without a capo. Back to "A" open chords on my 12 string, which becomes effectively "G" due to tuning down the 12 a full step. Uses a lot more of the bassier octave sound that way, especially in the chorus/break runs.

Don

edit> And just to be clear, playing HCtS on a 12 string in no way sounds like the way George did it. But it's a lot of fun gas, gas, gas.

[deepermagic]

My fave is Dirty Old Town.  Its the only tune I can play but with some finger picking n some strumming, its great. Soon my fave will be Bookends by SnG which I should imagine, most folk will find easy but still a struggle for me. And coming up on the horizon is Blackbird which I am sure will take me to Easter to learn. Slowly but surely x

My favorite song to play is Blackbird. It was one of the first songs I learned (and then had to re-learn a better way...and honestly the more I listen to it the more I'm mystified and befuddled as to how to play it like Paul) and incidentally one of the only songs I can fingerpick with anything approaching skill.

[donlyn]

Currently, "City of New Orleans". But playing it on the ukelele.

I was inspired while playing the game "Ticket to Ride: First Journey (U.S.)" with my granddaughter last week. I had just completed a route from Chicago to New Orleans, was noodling on the uke at the time, and so it just happened. Have since done a crash course in the lyrics and liking the result a lot.

 

Don

[AmericanEagle]

Stairway To Heaven

honestly