Top 3 songs

[Walkerman]

I don't know

honky tonk wedding, stones

teach your children well, csn

lots of grateful dead songs

do you mean honky tonk women?

[Walkerman]

Why would anyone want to pick 3 songs?

[DaveyO]

Yeah, i know it should have been at least to ten.
David

[Thinman]

Today's three for me would be
Wichita Skyline -  Shawn Colvin
Song for Sharon- Joni Mitchell
De pois do amor, O vasio - Wayne Shorter
but I would second  Acadian Driftwood, Deacons blues,Willin.
I must find those picks I've never heard and listen, I love new music and hate the radio.

[yettoblaster]

Walkin' By Myself - Paul Butterfield version with Buzzy Feiten on guitar.
Waitin' On You - Dave Mason (Alone Together)
The Well Done Gone Dry - Crusaders (Southern Comfort)

[jimmy buffett]

Waitin' On You - Dave Mason (Alone Together)

A classic from way back.

[bluesman67]

I'm gonna go with, not in any particular order:

Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Kind Hearted Woman - Robert Johnson
Little Red Rooster - Lightnin' Hopkins
Texas Flood - SRV
Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Chip Away - Aerosmith

And, because I listened to my older brother's records so much when I was a kid, any songs from the 70's by The J. Geils Band.  BTW, they originally called themselves The J. Geils Blues Band.

[maxferry]

Gimme Shelter-Stones
La Torre Bermeja-as performed by John Williams ( in 1958 at age 17)
Vaseline Machine Gun- Leo Kottke

You're right...3 is far too few. These are some that still make the hair on my neck stand on end. There are many others.

[bluesman67]

I'm gonna go with, not in any particular order:

Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Kind Hearted Woman - Robert Johnson
Little Red Rooster - Lightnin' Hopkins
Texas Flood - SRV
Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Chip Away - Aerosmith

And, because I listened to my older brother's records so much when I was a kid, any songs from the 70's by The J. Geils Band.  BTW, they originally called themselves The J. Geils Blues Band.

I almost forgot...

Gimme' Three Steps - Lynard Skynard

I definitely can listen to it over and over again.

[jmb27]

fwiw:

The Weight - by The Band
Ol' 55 - by Tom Waits
Europa - Carlos Santana

[bogie]

After seeing CSNY in concert and watching the documentary "Heart of Gold", I'm in a Neil Young Phase.

I can give you 3 songs from just 1 album, Harvest: Heart of Gold, Old Man and The Needle and the Damage Done.

[TrinityGuitars]

OK From a Guitar Shop point of view. Please do not go in and try out a guitar with the following three songs. 
1) Stairway to Heaven
2) Black Bird
3) Dust in the Wind

Jim Holler
Trinity Guitars
   

[bogie]

OK From a Guitar Shop point of view. Please do not go in and try out a guitar with the following three songs. 
2) Black Bird

Are you sure that you didn't mean "Freebird"? If I was a git shop owner, I wouldn't want to hear it anymore either!

[TrinityGuitars]

I could put Freebird on the list. Black Bird Beatles gets a lot of play in the studio!
Jim Holler

[aaronjnoone]

+1 on the Freebird. People love to shout that at gigs, too.

Shelter - Ray Lamontagne
Dead Flowers - the Townes Van Zandt version
Change - Blind Melon

[little fingers]

these are my streamofconsciousnessthree...

The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb
Boy From the Country: Michael Murphey
Sweet Thing: Van Morrison

[canoe65]

Why would anyone want to pick 3 songs?

Three is not very many, but I guess that was the challenge.  I took three days to come up with just three songs:

- "The Last Night of the World" by Bruce Cockburn
- "Comes A Time" by Neil Young (as performed on his 'Heart of Gold' DVD)
- "Moonshadow" by Cat Stevens

BUT, other honourable mentions are:

- "Ticket To Ride" by the Beatles
- "Samba Pa Ti" by Santana
- "Cats Under The Stars" by Jerry Garcia
- "I Shall Be Released" by The Band (written by Bob Dylan)
- "That Old Cedar Strip Canoe" by James Gordon
- "Brush and Paddle" by Ian Tamblyn
- "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young
- "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young
- "Tears For Heaven" by Eric Clapton
- "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton

Oh !!!  So many songs, and only so much time.   

[little fingers]

- "The Last Night of the World"

care to share?
Cockburn is one of my favorites.
been struggling with "All the Diamonds in the World" for ages.

[canoe65]

Hey little fingers,

I love to listen to these songs.  I can't play them all.

I'm not that good.  I can't even dream of playing 'Samba Pa Ti' like Santana (or even Ottmar Liebert's acoustic version of it).

These are the songs that I don't get tired of listening to (when the 'big guns' are playing them, not me).   

[little fingers]

Hey little fingers,

I love to listen to these songs.  I can't play them all.

I'm not that good.  I can't even dream of playing 'Samba Pa Ti' like Santana (or even Ottmar Liebert's acoustic version of it).

These are the songs that I don't get tired of listening to (when the 'big guns' are playing them, not me).   

gottcha...i sorta kinda forgot what thread we were in...cuz there was also a what song(s) are you working on now thread.
i went to the Cockburn Project website and found a couple of TAB pages for Last Night of the World. a drop F#, capo on 3 if i remember correctly, otherwise very confusing to me. I don't have an easy time with TABS...but i really dig that drop F# thing. so not a total loss.