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Cover Songs back to original songs
Here's a Table of songs that James covers, especially at pub gigs.
These come in and out of
James' regular repertoire, so if you'd like to request a song for him
to play at a gig, send an email and he'll
brush
up! If you like, you
can make a Donation (button to left) to show your appreciation :-)
James is also willing to learn new songs, especially if you hire him
for your event.
| The Winner Takes it All |
ABBA |
80's |
| Summer of 69 |
Adams, Bryan |
80's |
| Ventura Highway |
America |
70's |
| Cornflake Girl |
Amos Tori |
90's |
| Little Earthquakes |
Amos Tori |
90's |
| The Night they Drove ol' Dixie Down |
Band, The |
60's |
| Eternal Flame |
Bangles |
80's |
| Bright Eyes |
Batt Mike |
70's |
| Then I kissed Her |
Beach Boys, The |
60's |
| A Day in the Life |
Beatles |
60's |
| All my Lovin' |
Beatles |
60's |
| Blackbird |
Beatles |
60's |
| Come Together |
Beatles |
60's |
| Drive my Car |
Beatles |
60's |
| From me to You |
Beatles |
60's |
| Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/Her Majesty |
Beatles |
70's |
| Help |
Beatles |
60's |
| Here Comes the Sun |
Beatles |
60's |
| Lady Madonna |
Beatles |
60's |
| Let it Be |
Beatles |
60's |
| Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds |
Beatles |
60's |
| Norwegian Wood |
Beatles |
60's |
| Nowhere Man |
Beatles |
60's |
| One after 909 |
Beatles |
60's |
| Penny Lane |
Beatles |
60's |
| Rain |
Beatles |
60's |
| Revolution |
Beatles |
60's |
| Strawberry Fields Forever |
Beatles |
60's |
| Things we said Today |
Beatles |
60's |
| Ticket to Ride |
Beatles |
60's |
| Tomorrow Never Knows |
Beatles |
60's |
| We can work it out |
Beatles |
60's |
| When I'm Sixty-Four |
Beatles |
60's |
| While my guitar gently weeps |
Beatles |
60's |
| Yesterday |
Beatles |
60's |
| You've got to Hide your Love away |
Beatles |
60's |
| Thirteen |
Big Star |
70's |
| Fall |
Birdsall Nick |
90's |
| In my time of Dyin' |
Blind Willie Johnson (Dylan) |
20's |
| Dead or Alive |
Bon Jovi |
80's |
| You Give Love a Bad Name |
Bon Jovi |
80's |
| Quicksand |
Bowie, David |
70's |
| Ziggy Stardust |
Bowie, David |
70's |
| Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) |
Brecht, Bertold (The Doors) |
20's |
| Eternal Life |
Buckley Jeff |
90's |
| Blue Melody |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Buzzing Fly |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Hallucinations |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Happy Time |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Morning Glory |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Once I was |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Phantasmagoria in Two |
Buckley Tim |
70's |
| Auld Lang Syne |
Burns, Robbie |
Traditional |
| Running up that Hill |
Bush Kate |
70's |
| The Ballad of the Easy Rider |
Byrds, The |
60's |
| Blues before Sunrise |
Carr, Leroy and Scrapper Blackwell |
20's |
| How Long Blues |
Carr, Leroy and Scrapper Blackwell |
20's |
| Fast Car |
Chapman, Tracy |
80's |
| Georgia in my Mind |
Charmichael Hoagy (and Stuart Gorrell) |
60's |
| It wasn't me |
Chuck Berry |
60's |
| Johnny B Goode |
Chuck Berry |
50's |
| You can't catch me |
Chuck Berry |
50's |
| Lay down Sally |
Clapton, Eric |
70's |
| Layla |
Clapton, Eric |
70's |
| Motherless Child |
Clapton, Eric (Hicks, 1927) |
90's |
| Hallelujah |
Cohen Leonard |
80's |
| Tower of Song |
Cohen Leonard |
90's |
| Against all Odds |
Collins Phil |
80's |
| The Roof is Leaking |
Collins Phil |
80's |
| Round Here |
Counting Crows |
90's |
| Feel like I'm fixin to die rag |
Country Joe and the Fish |
60's |
| Nobody knows you when you're down and out |
Cox Jimmy |
20's |
| Bad Moon Rising |
Creedence Clearwater Revival |
60's |
| Suite Judy Blue Eyes |
Crosby Stills and Nash |
60's |
| Four Seasons in one Day |
Crowded House |
90's |
| Weather with You |
Crowded House |
90's |
| Friday I'm in Love |
Cure, The |
80's |
| Fever |
Davenport and Cooley |
50's |
| Nothing Ever Happens |
Del Amiti |
80's |
| Before you accuse me |
Diddley, Bo |
50's |
| Industrial Disease |
Dire Straits |
80's |
| Romeo and Juliet |
Dire Straits |
80's |
| So Far away from Me |
Dire Straits |
80's |
| Season of the Witch |
Donovan |
60's |
| LA Woman |
Doors, The |
70's |
| Light my Fire |
Doors, The |
60's |
| People are Strange |
Doors, The |
60's |
| Ship of Fools |
Doors, The |
70's |
| Soul Kitchen |
Doors, The |
60's |
| The Crystal Ship |
Doors, The |
60's |
| Going Back Home |
Dr Feelgood |
70's |
| Sneakin Suspicion |
Dr Feelgood |
70's |
| At the Chime of a city Clock |
Drake Nick |
70's |
| Cello Song |
Drake Nick |
60's |
| Fruit Tree |
Drake Nick |
60's |
| Northern Sky |
Drake Nick |
70's |
| Pink moon |
Drake Nick |
70's |
| River Man |
Drake Nick |
70's |
| Saturday Sun |
Drake Nick |
60's |
| Smokin' too Long |
Drake Nick |
70's |
| Time Has told me |
Drake Nick |
60's |
| Under the Boardwalk |
Drifters (Young & Resnick) |
60's |
| Still too young to remember |
Dunnery Francis |
80's |
| 4th Time Around |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| A Hard Rain's a-gonna Fall |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| All along the Watchtower |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Blowin' in the Wind |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Forever Young |
Dylan, Bob |
70's |
| Highway 51 Blues |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Highway 61 Revisited |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| It ain't me Babe |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Just like a Woman |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Knockin' on Heaven's Door |
Dylan, Bob |
70's |
| Mr Tambourine Man |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Positively 4th Street |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Simple twist of Fate |
Dylan, Bob |
70's |
| Subterranean Homesick Blues |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Times they are a changin' |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| With God on our side |
Dylan, Bob |
60's |
| Hotel California |
Eagles |
70's |
| Peaceful Easy Feelin' |
Eagles |
70's |
| Take it Easy |
Eagles |
70's |
| Tequila Sunrise |
Eagles |
70's |
| Copperhead Road |
Earle, Steve |
80's |
| Four Little Diamonds |
ELO |
70's |
| Rock and Roll is King |
ELO |
70's |
| I'm a Bad Dog |
Engine |
80's |
| Worried Life Blues |
Estes, Sleepy John |
30's |
| More than words |
Extreme |
90's |
| Ooh La La |
Faces, The |
70's |
| Meet on the Ledge |
Fairport Convention |
60's |
| Blueberry Hill |
Fats Domino |
50's |
| Accentuate the Positive |
Fitzgerald Ella; Aretha Franklin; Dr John (Harold
Arlen and Johnny Mercer 1944) |
40's |
| Don't stop |
Fleetwood Mac |
70's |
| Never Going back again |
Fleetwood Mac |
70's |
| Got my Mojo Workin' |
Foster, Preston (Muddy Waters; Canned Heat) |
50's |
| Sail On |
Free |
70's |
| Don't give up |
Gabriel Peter |
80's |
| Here Comes the Flood |
Gabriel Peter |
70's |
| Mercy Street |
Gabriel Peter |
80's |
| Red Rain |
Gabriel Peter |
80's |
| Solsbury Hill |
Gabriel Peter |
80's |
| Afterglow |
Genesis |
70's |
| Blood on the Rooftops |
Genesis |
70's |
| Broadway Melody of 1974 |
Genesis |
70's |
| Carpet Crawlers |
Genesis |
70's |
| Entangled |
Genesis |
70's |
| Heathaze |
Genesis |
80's |
| Inside and Out |
Genesis |
70's |
| Ripples |
Genesis |
70's |
| Your Own Special Way |
Genesis |
70's |
| Summertime |
Gershwin & Heyward |
30's |
| Wingful of Eyes |
Gong |
70's |
| Black Magic Woman |
Green, Peter (Santana) |
60's |
| Spirit in the Sky |
Greenbaum, Norman (Dr and the Medics) |
70's |
| Something |
Harrison George |
70's |
| High Flyin Bird |
Havens Richie (Billy Edd Wheeler) |
60's |
| Hurry on Sundown |
Hawkwind |
70's |
| We took the wrong step years ago |
Hawkwind |
70's |
| Little Wing |
Hendrix Jimi |
60's |
| Red House |
Hendrix Jimi |
60's |
| The Wind cries Mary |
Hendrix Jimi |
60's |
| He ain't Heavy, he's my Brother |
Hollies, The (Bobby Scott and Bob Russell) |
60's |
| Closer to Fine |
Indigo Girls |
80's |
| That's Entertainment |
Jam, The |
80's |
| Sit Down |
James |
80's |
| Dust my Broom |
James Elmore |
50's |
| It hurts me too |
James Elmore |
60's |
| Sky is Cryin |
James Elmore |
60's |
| Jane Says |
Jane's Addiction |
80's |
| Aqualung |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Broadsword |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Bungle in the Jungle |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Life is a Long Song |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Living in the Past |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Locomotive Breath |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Minstrel in the Gallery |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Pussy Willow |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Skating away on the thin ice of a new day |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Songs from the Wood |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| Thick as a Brick |
Jethro Tull |
70's |
| One of Us |
Joan Osbourne |
90's |
| Get Rhythm |
Johnny Cash |
80's |
| They're Red Hot |
Johnson, Robert |
30's |
| Sweet Home Chicago |
Johnson, Robert (Blues Brothers) |
30's |
| State of Independence |
Jon and Vangelis (Donna Summer) |
70's |
| Mercedes Benz |
Joplin Janis |
70's |
| Human |
Killers, The |
00's |
| Lola |
Kinks, The |
70's |
| Sunny Afternoon |
Kinks, The |
60's |
| Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea |
Leadbelly |
40's |
| You must have that True Religion |
Leadbelly |
30's |
| Stairway to Heaven |
Led Zeppelin |
70's |
| Tangarine |
Led Zeppelin |
70's |
| Thank You |
Led Zeppelin |
70's |
| Imagine |
Lennon John |
70's |
| The World Turned upside Down |
Leon Rosselson |
70's |
| The Boatman |
Levellers |
80's |
| Long Tall Sally |
Little Richard |
50's |
| Freebird |
Lynard Synyrd |
70's |
| Simple Man |
Lynard Synyrd |
70's |
| Song of the Iron Road |
MacColl Ewan |
70's |
| The Spirit |
Magnum |
80's |
| Kayleigh |
Marillion |
80's |
| Natural Mystic |
Marley Bob |
70's |
| Redemption Song |
Marley Bob |
80's |
| May you Never |
Martyn John |
70's |
| Over the Hill |
Martyn John |
70's |
| Solid Air |
Martyn John |
70's |
| Jolly Roger |
McGuinn Roger |
70's |
| American Pie |
Mclean Don |
70's |
| Crossroads |
Mclean Don |
70's |
| Michael in the Garden |
McTell Ralph |
60's |
| The Streets of London |
McTell Ralph |
60's |
| Nothing Else Matters |
Metallica |
90's |
| Deliverance |
Mission, The |
90's |
| Big Yellow Taxi |
Mitchell Joni |
70's |
| This Flight Tonight |
Mitchell Joni (Nazareth) |
70's |
| I'm a Believer |
Monkees |
60's |
| Rolling and Tumbling |
Morganfield |
50's |
| Hand in my Pocket |
Morisette Alanis |
90's |
| And it Stoned me |
Morrison Van |
70's |
| Brown Eyed Girl |
Morrison Van |
60's |
| Moondance |
Morrison Van |
70's |
| I can see clearly now |
Nash Johnny |
70's |
| Everybody's Talkin' |
Neil Fred (Harry Nilsson) |
60's |
| Dolphins |
Neil Fred (Tim Buckley) |
60's |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit |
Nirvana |
90's |
| Champagne Supernova |
Oasis |
90's |
| Whatever |
Oasis |
90's |
| Wonderwall |
Oasis |
90's |
| The Day we caught the Train |
Ocean Colour Scene |
90's |
| There but for Fortune |
Ochs Phil |
60's |
| Moonlight Shadow |
Oldfield Mike |
70's |
| Alive |
Pearl Jam |
90's |
| Free Falling |
Petty Tom |
80's |
| Freefalling |
Petty Tom |
80's |
| I won't back down |
Petty Tom |
80's |
| Mustang Sally |
Picket Wilson |
60's |
| A Pillow of Winds |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Bike |
Pink Floyd |
60's |
| Breathe |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Comfortably Numb |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Coming back to Life |
Pink Floyd |
90's |
| Dark Side of the Moon (album) |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Echoes |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Echoes |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Eclipse |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Fearless |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Have a Cigar |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Meddle (album) |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Money |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| On the Turning away |
Pink Floyd |
80's |
| One of these Days |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Run Like Hell |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Run Like Hell |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| San Tropez |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Seamus |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Shine On you Crazy Diamond |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Time |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Us and Them |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| Wish you were Here |
Pink Floyd |
70's |
| A Pair of Brown Eyes |
Pogues |
80's |
| I'm a man you don't meet every day |
Pogues |
80's |
| Navigator |
Pogues |
80's |
| Sally McLennane |
Pogues |
80's |
| Message in a Bottle |
Police |
80's |
| Jailhouse Rock |
Presley Elvis |
50's |
| A Whiter Shade of Pale |
Procul Harum |
60's |
| 39 |
Queen |
70's |
| Crazy Little thing called Love |
Queen |
70's |
| Dreamers' Ball |
Queen |
70's |
| In the Lap of the Gods |
Queen |
70's |
| Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon |
Queen |
70's |
| Who wants to live forever? |
Queen |
80's |
| Pride of Man |
Quicksilver Messenger Service |
60's |
| Creep |
Radiohead |
90's |
| 18 Maig a la Villa |
Raimon |
60's |
| Baby what you want me to do? |
Reed, Jimmy |
50's |
| Losing my Religion |
REM |
90's |
| The One I Love |
REM |
80's |
| Angie |
Rolling Stones |
70's |
| Honky Tonk Women |
Rolling Stones |
60's |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash |
Rolling Stones |
60's |
| Paint it black |
Rolling Stones |
60's |
| You can't always get what you want |
Rolling Stones |
60's |
| Closer to the Heart |
Rush |
70's |
| Fly by Night |
Rush |
70's |
| Smooth |
Santana |
90's |
| I wanna be like you |
Sherman & Sherman |
60's |
| April |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| Bridge over Troubled Water |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| Mrs Robinson |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| The Boxer |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| The Sound of Silence |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| The Sun is Burning |
Simon & Garfunkel |
60's |
| Out on the Water Coast |
Sonny Boy Williamson |
60's |
| Stuck in the Middle |
Stealers Wheel |
70's |
| Pick a Part that's New |
Stereophonics |
90's |
| Wild World |
Stevens, Cat (aka Yusuf Islam) |
70's |
| Maggie May |
Stewart Rod |
70's |
| Year of the Cat |
Stewart, Al |
70's |
| An Englishman in New York |
Sting |
80's |
| Dreamer |
Supertramp |
70's |
| 20th Century Boy |
T-Rex |
70's |
| Carolina on my Mind |
Taylor James |
60's |
| Fire and Rain |
Taylor James |
70's |
| Sweet Baby James |
Taylor James |
70's |
| Birdhouse in your Soul |
They might be Giants |
80's |
| Tore Down |
Thompson Sonny |
60's |
| Ride that Train |
Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan |
80's |
| As the Crow Flies |
Tony Joe White (Rory Gallagher; Aynsley Lister) |
60's |
| All around my Hat |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Dirty Old Town |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Maggie |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Matty Groves |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Star of the County Down |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Tell me Why |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| The Fox |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| The Wild Rover |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Waltzing Matilda |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Whiskey in the Jar |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Handle with care |
Travellin Wilburys |
80's |
| All I want is You |
U2 |
80's |
| Teenage Kicks |
Undertones, The |
70's |
| The Wizard |
Uriah Heep |
70's |
| Blue Valentine |
Waits Tom |
80's |
| Ol' 55 |
Waits Tom |
70's |
| Shiver me Timbers |
Waits Tom |
70's |
| Underground |
Waits Tom |
80's |
| Wildwood |
Weller Paul |
90's |
| You do something to me |
Weller Paul |
90's |
| Superstition |
Wonder, Stevie |
70's |
| I am a Cider Drinker |
Wurzels, The |
70's |
| Soon |
Yes |
70's |
| Time and a Word |
Yes |
70's |
| After the Gold Rush |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Alabama |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Barstool Blues |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Cinnamon Girl |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Cowgirl in the Sand |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Don't let it Bring you down |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Down by the River |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Harvest |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Harvest Moon |
Young Neil |
90's |
| Heart of Gold |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Like a hurricane |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Long may you Run |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Natural Beauty |
Young Neil |
90's |
| Old Man |
Young Neil |
70's |
| On the Way Home |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Out on the Weekend |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Pocahontas |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Rockin in the Free World |
Young Neil |
90's |
| Roll another Number |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Vampire Blues |
Young Neil |
70's |
| Jesus just left Chicago |
ZZ Top |
70's |
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