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- Hotchkiss, CO
- Singing Guitarist
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Gunnison, CO
$200 minimum and up, travel and gig length extra
Travels up to 200 miles
Jim Davidson specializes in old-school fingerstyle guitar and rich vocal renditions of original music and the songs of Willie Nelson, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Colter Wall and many, many others that are Fingerpickin-Good!(TM)
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Languages: English
Gig length: 60 - 300 minutes
Jim Davidson is a self-contained performer and brings his own professional sound gear and can also provide his own sound engineer if the venue is large enough. His repetoire includes hundreds of songs that span folk, country, bluegrass and Americana. Whether the venue needs a 30-minute performance or a 5-hour performance, Jim can provide either.
Jim Davidson's guitar style is Fingerpickin' Good!(TM) and along with his smooth baritone voice lays down meaningful renditions of the works of Willie Nelson, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash and many, many others. Jim has been performing for over 50 years, including opening for ZZ Top the first night they played under that name at the Port Arthur, TX Knights of Columbus Hall in February of 1970.
He has also opened for The Wailers, the L'il Smokies, the Fretliners and Floodgate Operators with his traditional acoustic bluegrass band, the Black Canyon Ramblers.
Saturday
Previous Booking
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Friday
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5:00pm - 7:00pm
Thursday
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5:30pm - 8:30pm
Saturday
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8:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
Thursday
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7:00pm - 10:00pm
Wednesday
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6:00pm - 9:00pm
Sunday
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friday
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
Thursday
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7:00pm - 10:00pm
Friday
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6:00pm - 10:00pm
SAMPLE SET LISTS
SET 1
1) Catfish John / Grateful Dead - C
2) I Ride an Old Paint, I’m Leavin’ Cheyenne / Trad - C
3) Buffalo Grass / Chris LeDoux - G
4) Rent / George Strait - A
5) Cowpoke / Stan Jones - C
6) The Chair / George Strait - G 7) You Aint Goin’ Nowhere / Bob Dylan - G
8) Early Morning Rain / Gordon Lightfoot - D
9) Someday Soon / Ian Tyson - C
10) Black Magic Woman / Peter Green (FWood Mac) - Am
11) Long Black Veil / Marijohn Wilkin,Dan Dill - C
12) Nine Pound Hammer / Traditional - G
13) Freight Train / Elizabeth Cotten - C
14) Pirate Looks at 40 / Jimmy Buffett - G
15) Sixteen Tons / Merle Travis - Am
16) Deep River Blues / Alton Delmore - E7
17) Folsom Prison Blues / Johnny Cash - E
18) My Creole Belle / Mississippi John Hurt - D
19) Lost Highway / Hank Williams - C
20) Blowin’ in the Wind / Bob Dylan - C
21) Lonesome Road Blues / Traditional - C
22) Streets of Laredo / Traditional - C
23) Red River Valley / James Kerrigan - C
24) On the Road Again / Willie Nelson - C
25) Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia / Jimmie Rodgers - C
26) All My Exes Live in Texas / George Strait - G
27) My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - D
28) Mama Tried / Merle Haggard - C
29) Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay / Otis Redding - G
30) Road Goes on Forever / Robt Earl Keen - D
31) The Gambler / Kenny Rogers - G
32) Six Days in the Road / Dave Dudley - A
33) My Wife Thinks You’re Dead / Junior Brown - E 00) All the Gold in California / Gatlin Bros - G
00) Tumbling Tumbleweeds / Bob Nolan - C
00) In My Life / Beatles - G
SET 2
34) Stuff That Works / Guy Clark - C
35) White Freightliner Blues / Townes Van Zandt - G
36) Ripple / Grateful Dead - C
37) Clay Pigeons / Blaze Foley - G / Capo2
38) Hello in There / John Prine - G / Capo2
39) Homeward Bound / Simon & Garfunkel - G
40) Mr Bojangles / Jerry Jeff Walker - C
41) The Weight / Robbie Robertson/Band - C
42) Don’t Think Twice / Bob Dylan - C
43) If I Needed You / Townes Van Zandt - G
44) The Boxer / Paul Simon - C
45) Ghost Riders in the Sky / Stan Jones - Am
46) Coconut / Harry Nillson - C/C7
47) Ring of Fire / Johnny Cash - G
48) Amarillo by Morning / George Strait - C
49) Country Roads / John Denver - G
50) Blackbird / Beatles - G
51) Galway Girl / Steve Earle - D / Capo2
52) City of New Orleans / Steve Goodman - C
53) Troubadour / George Strait - G
54) Cowboy and the Coyote / Tyson - C
55) Bury Me Not / Johnny Cash - Em
56) I Love This Bar / Toby Keith - D
57) For Lovin’ Me / Gordon Lightfoot - G 58) Do I Ever Cross Your Mind / Dolly Parton - C 59) Cool Water / Bob Nolan - C
60) Harvest Moon / Neil Young - D
61) Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning / Gary P Nunn - C
62) Take It Easy / Eagles - G
63) Peaceful Easy Feelin’ / Eagles - G
64) Norwegian Wood / Beatles - G
00) Dirt Turns to Gold / Zack Top - C
SET 3
65) Luckenbach Texas / Willie & Waylon - G
66) The Party’s Over / Willie Nelson - C
67) I’ll Be Here in the Morning / Townes Van Zandt - C
68) Blue Bayou / Roy Orbison - G
69) Dead Flowers / Townes Van Zandt Version - C
70) Forever and Ever, Amen / Randy Travis - C
71) I Gotta Woman / Ray Charles - G
72) John Henry / Muddy Waters Version - C
73) Rocky Racoon / Beatles - Am
74) Banks of the Ohio / Doc Watson Version - C
75) Paradise / John Prine - C
76) I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry / Hank Williams - D
77) Pancho & Lefty / Townes Van Zandt - D
78) Sittin’ on Top of the World / Doc Watson Version - A
79) Feathered Indians / Tyler Indians - C
80) Colorado Girl / Townes Van Zandt - G
81) Got My Mojo Workin’ / Muddy Waters Version - E
82) Jambalaya / Hank Williams - C
83) Speed of the Sound of Loneliness / John Prine - C
84) London Homesick Blues / Gary P Nunn - G
85) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown / Jim Croce - G
86) Moon Shadow / Cat Stevens - D
87) Heart of Gold / Neil Young - Em
88) Here Comes the Sun / Beatles - D
89) Georgia on My Mind / Ray Charles - C
90) Mona Lisa / Nat King Cole - A
91) Your Cheatin’ Heart / Hank Williams - C
92) Why Don’t You Love Me / Hank Williams - C 93) Hey Good Lookin’ / Hank Williams - C 94) Waltz Across Texas / Ernest Tubb - G
95) Hotel California / Eagles - Am
96) Never Goin’ Back Again / Fleetwood Mac - C
97) Hello Walls / Willie Nelson - C
98) Mammas Don’t let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys / Waylon - G
00) Best of My Love / Eagles - C
00) Father and Son / Cat Stevens - G
00) How Sweet It Is to be Loved by You / Marvin Gaye - G
00) That’s the Way the World Goes ‘Round / John Prine - C
SET 4
99) Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain / Willie Nelson - E
100) Shady Grove / Doc Watson Version - Dm
101) Stay All Night / Bob Wills - E
102) Diggin’ Up Bones / Randy Travis - C
103) Will the Circle Be Unbroken / AP Carter - G
104) Redneck Mother / Ray Wylie Hubbard - G
105) Back in the Saddle Again / Gene Autry - G
106) Bury Me Beneath the Willow / Skaggs & Rice Version - G
107) Feelin’ Groovy / Simon & Garfunkel - D
108) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Wallace Willis - C
109) Crazy / Willie Nelson - D
110) Ol’ Man River / Paul Robeson - C
111) Fish and Whistle / John Prine - G
112) Me and Bobby McGee / Kris Kristofferson - D
113) You Never Even Call Me by My Name / David Allan Coe - G
114) If It Hadn’t Been for Love / Steeldrivers/Chris Stapleton - Am
115) Morning Bird / Forest Sun - G
116) Suzanne / Leonard Cohen - C
117) Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms / John Hartford Version - G
118) Mind Your Own Business / Hank Williams - A
119) If You Could Read My Mind / Gordon Lightfoot - G
120) Twist an Shout / Beatles - C
121) Annabel / Dar Williams - Am
122) Daydream / John Sebastion - C
123) Okie From Muskogee / Merle Haggard - D
124) Rawhide
000) Spanish Pipedream (Blow Up Your TV) / John Prine - G
000) When I’m Sixty-Four / Beatles - C
000) Pretty Woman / Roy Orbison - A
000) Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Gordon Lightfoot - A
000) East Bound and Down / Jerry Reed - G
000) Cattle Call / Tex Owens - C
000) Man of Constant Sorrow / Ralph Stanley - Dropped D
SET 5
125) Angel From Montgomery / John Prine - G
126) Faded Love / Bob Wills - D
127) California Sober / Billy Strings - G
128) Into the Mystic / Van Morrison - C
129) Kathy’s Song / Simon & Garfunkel - G
130) Aime / Pure Prairie League - G
131) Honky Tonkin’ / Hank Williams - D
132) Happy Trails / Roy Rogers - C
133) Teach Your Children / Crosby Still Nash - G
134) Proud Mary / John Fogerty - A
135) Not Fade Away / Buddy Holly - C
136) Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen - A
137) Rocket Man / Elton John - Em
138) April Come She Will / Simon & Garfunkel - D
139) Sympathy for the Devil / Rolling Stones - E
140) Good Hearted Woman / Waylon Jennings - D
141) Blue Umbrella / John Prine - A
142) Don’t Worry, Be Happy / Bobby McFerrin - G
143) Dust in a Baggy / Billy Strings - G
144) Wayfarin’ Stranger / Traditional - Em
145) The Dangling Conversation / Simon and Garfunkel - D
146) My Ding-A-Ling / Chuck Berry Version - C
147) Political Science / Randy Newman - C
148) Greenville Trestle / Doc Watson - E
149) Where the Sould of a Man Never Dies / Rice Skaggs - C
150) This Train is Bound for Glory / Woody Guthrie - A
151) Southbound / Doc Watson - C
152) New River Train / Traditional - C
SET 6
153) Big Iron / Marty Robbins - C
154) In the Jailhouse Now / Jimmie Rodgers - G
155) Tennessee Whiskey / Dean Dillon - G
156) Tennessee Stud / Jimmie Driftwood - D
157) Today, I Started Loving You Again - Merle Haggard
158) Everything’s the Same / Billy Strings - G
159) Brain Damage / Pink Floyd - D
160) Hit the Road Jack / Ray Charles - Am
161) Lorena / John Hartford Version - C
162) Rose of San Antone / Bob Wills - G
163) The Times They Are A-Changin’ / Bob Dylan - G
164) Morning Has Broken / Cat Stevens - C
165) Dream Baby / Roy Orbison - A
166) Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone / Bill Withers Version - Am
167) Keep on the Sunny Side / Carter Family - C
168) The Fireman / George Strait Version - A
169) Salty Dog Revisited / Jim Davidson - G
170) Little Worlds / Watchouse - C
171) Good-Hearted Woman / Waylon Jennings - D
172) John Barleycorn Must Die / Steve Winwood - Am
173) Evangelina / Hoyt Axton - G
174) King of the Road / Roger Miller - C
175) El Paso / Marty Robbins - D
176) Rock Salt and Nails / Bruce Phillips - C
177) The Dangling Conversation / Simon & Garfunkel - D
178) Poem on an Underground Wall / Simon & Garfunkel - C
BLUEGRASS
1) Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me / Jimmy Martin - A
2) Airmail Special / Jim & Jesse McReynolds - A
3) Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Flatt & Scruggs - A
4) Dark Hollow / Stanley Bros - C
5) Down to the River to Pray / Traditional - G
6) Eight More Miles to Louisville / Grandpa Jones - G
7) Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open / Flatt & Scruggs - D
8) Greenville Trestle / Doc Watson - E
9) How Mountain Girls Can Love / Stanley Bros - G
10) I’ll Fly Away / Albert Brumley - G
11) I’ll Love Nobody But You / Jim & Jesse McReynolds - A
12) In the Pines / Ralph Stanley/Jimmy Martin - G
13) It’s a Long Way to the Top of the World / Jim & Jesse - C
14) Lay Down My Old Guitar / Doc Watson - D
15) Little Maggie / Ralph Stanley - G
16) Long Journey Home / Traditional - G
17) Lorena / John Hartford Version - C
18) Man of Constant Sorrow / Richard Burnett - D
19) Midnight Train / Delmore Bros - A
20) Walkin’ Shoes / Jimmy Martin - B
21) Next Train South / Bluegrass Ramblers - G
22) New River Train / Traditional - D
23) No Ash Will Burn / Walt Aldridge - A
24) Ole Slew Foot / Stanley Bros - G
25) Old Home Place / Tony Rice Version - A
26) Old Home Town / Lester Flatt - G
27) Rock Salt and Nails / Bruce Phillips - C
28) Rocky Top / Osborne Bros Version - G
29) Salty Dog Blues / Traditional - G
30) Sittin’ on Top of the World / Doc Watson Version - A
31) Dome Old Day / Flatt & Scruggs - G
32) Standing on the Mountain / Alton Delmore - G
33) Steam-Powered Aereo Plane / John Hartford - G
34) That’s Where I Belong / Notting Hillbillies
35) Walk the Way the Wind Blows / Tim O’Brien - C
36) Will the Circle Be Unbroken / Carter Family - G
IRISH
1) Whiskey in The Jar - C
2) The Wild Rover - G
3) Molly Malone - C
4) Wild Colonial Boy - C
5) Danny Boy - C
ORIGINAL
1) Every Kiss / Jim Davidson - C
2) If There Ain’t No Dogs in Heaven / Jim Davidson - C
3) Remember the Ones We Love / Jim Davidson - C
4) I Love You and Now I’m Movin’ On / Jim Davidson - C
5) Trying Not to Pee on My Shoes / Jim Davidson - C
6) I’m Voting for a Hamburger With Cheese / Jim Davidson - C
7) No Damned Bugs / Jim Davidson - Am
8) Rambler in the Sage / Jim Davidson
9) When All That’s Left of Me is You / Jim Davidson - G
10)Girl From the Mountains / Jim Davidson - G
11)Rosalie, Marry Me / Jim Davidson - G
12)Daisy Mae / Jim Davidson - A7
13)Dawn and Dusk / Don Montana, Jim Davidson - C
Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Chet Atkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Johhny Cash, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Leo Kottke, Hank Williams, Sons of the Pioneers, Gordon Lightfoot, Colter Wall, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Ralph Stanley, BIll Monroe, Lester Flatt, Tony RIce, Bob Wills
If on a stage, a covered stage is preferred. My sound equipment generally requires 120V outlets connected to 20 amp circuit within 50' of the stage or perfromance area.
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