More about the guitarists than the guitars themselves.
[list compiled by Susan Forbes-Hansen] Songs about guitarists: Arlon Bennett, He Sings (The Watch Man) Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode Johnny Cash (also Rosanne Cash), Tennessee Flat Top Box Cephas & Wiggins: Guitar Man Bill Chambers, The Stories We Could Tell (Sleeping with The Blues) Crabtree & Mills, I Told You (Freedom) Pat Donohue, Stealing from Chet Pat Donohue, Would You Like to Play the Guitar Beppe Gambetta: 1000 Flatpickers at the Court of King Norman (Slade Stomp Eliza Gilkyson: Beauty Way Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen: song re Gamble Rogers The Judds, Girls with Guitars Si Kahn, To Hear Doc Watson Play (Thanksgiving) Jorma Kaukonen: Preacher Picked The Guitar (Stars In My Crown) Lori Lieberman, Killing Me Softly Lovin’ Spoonful or Del McCoury: Nashville Cats Joel Mabus, Doc’sology (Omnibus) David Matheson, Girls with Guitars (Cedartown) David McGuire, It’s Enough to Sing A Love Song Liz Meyer, Cecil (Regions of the Soul) Zoe Mulford, All the Songs Were Road Songs John Sebastian or Dan Crary, The Stories We Could Tell Paul Simon, Jonah (One Trick Pony) John Stewart, Some Lonesome Picker Hank Williams Jr: 127 Rose Avenue (127 Rose Avenue) Bob Zentz, Picker, Veteran's Auction Hall etc (Ramblin Conrad) & Someone Else’s Songs (Mirrors & Changes) ==== Songs about singers who play guitar Alastair Moock, Woody’s Lament Tom Paxton, Did You Hear John Hurt Jack Williams, A Natural Man ==== Songs about guitars etc.: Caroline Aiken, My There For Me Guitar The Ashley Gang, Frank’s Guitar Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps Arlon Bennett, Small Body Blonde (Summers Voice Theodore Bikel, Mi Guitar et Moi Norman Blake, Thank You Mr. Martin Greg Brown, Kate’s Guitar Kate Campbell, Yellow Guitar Peter Case, Steel Strings Guy Clark, Black Diamond Strings Guy Clark, The Guitar Brad Davis, I Love My Guitar (I’m Not Gonna Let My Blues Bring Me Down) Richard Dobson, A Piece of Wood and Steel (also covered by Jubal Lee Young and David Allen Coe) Beppe Gaambetta, Madame Guitar (Rendez-vous The Gibson Brothers, Vern's Guitar (Bona Fide) Steve Gillette, La Guitarra John Hiatt, Perfectly Good Guitar Rita Hosking, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (Silver Stream) Cisco Houston, Talking Guitar Blues Dana Hubbard, Woody’s Guitar Jim Hurst, This Old Guitar (Open Window) Jayhawks, Miss Williams’ Guitar Jorma Kaukonen, More Than My Old Guitar (River of Time) Steve Key, First Guitar Bill Kirchen, Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods Jimmy LaFave, Woody Guthrie Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (Together Sarah McQuaid, Last Song (I Won’t Go Home Til Morning) Faith Petric, Let Me Bring My Guitar to Heaven Too (When Did We Have Sauerkraut?) Tony Rice, Me and My Guitar (Me and My Guitar Darrell Scott, Hummingbird (there are several guitar-songs with “ Hummingbird” in the title) Christopher Shaw, Dad’s Old Flattop Guitar Fred Smith, Blue Guitar Jan Smith, Woman Your Guitar (29 Dances) Michael Smith, Gamble's Guitar Rick Speyer, The Ballad of Martin and Gibson Daithi Sproule, "David's Guitar" (The Crow In The Sun Ralph Stanley, If This Old Guitar Could Talk (This One Is Two) Ray Stevens, Guitarzan Al Stewart, Almost Lucy Hans Theessink, Big Bill's Guitar (Solo) Bob Warren or Joan Crane, Me and My Guitar Doc Watson, Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (Black Mountain Rag) Cheryl Wheeler, Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar Robin & Linda Williams, Maybelle's Guitar and Monroe's Mandolin Jesse Winchester, I Turn To My Guitar (Love Filling Station) The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (Tom T. Hall) ==== Songs for which I either wasn’t given the artists’ names or I somehow deleted them: Guitarman Best Guitar Picker = Loudon Wainwright III: "Red Guitar" Jimmie Rodgers or Jorma Kaukonen: "You and My Old Guitar" (not the same as "More Than My Old Guitar", although they'd make a dandy set) Norman Blake "Church Street Blues" Bob Dylan "Blind Willie McTell"
Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann
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