Solo Instrumental Guitar Shows

Need some live music to listen to, but would like a change of pace from a piano?...

My solo instrumental guitar music is simply myself playing live to pre-recorded backing tracks of your favorite music from the 50's through today (see songlist below). All you need to provide is a small area and one electrical outlet. My PA system is a small, portable system that can allow me to set up in an area as little as 5'x5'. The volume for even the up-tempo rock-n-roll songs can be as quiet as you like your home stereo.

As much as the sounds would basically be my guitar and the background music, my mini PA does allow me to have a microphone input in case anyone would like to sing along and/or make some announcements.

Whether you just need some background music for a half-hour or a full night's worth, I've got music for you. AND, if there are some specific songs you would like played and/or some other genres and/or music eras, just let me know and I'll be happy to add them to the ever-growing songlist below.

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Here's a link to a solo show I did at Veni Vidi Val in La Grange, IL last Christmastime during their annual Christmas sale.  If you click the "more" in the video description, you'll see the complete setlist of music played that night and can click the time marker next to it to see and hear that particular song.   Enjoy!......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYUcEc-n3g

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For rates and more info, please feel free to message me below...

Current Solo Instrumental Guitar Gig Songlist

1950’s

Ain’t That A Shame (Fats Domino)

All I Have To Do Is Dream (The Everly Brothers)

Don’t Be Cruel (Elvis Presley)

Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra)

Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)

La Bamba (Richie Valens)

Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly)

Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley and The Comets)

Sleepwalk (Santo And Johnny)

The Great Pretender (The Platters)

Walking After Midnight (Patsy Cline)

1960’s

Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)

Can’t Help Falling In Love (Elvis Presley)

Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (Frankie Valli)

God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)

Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)

I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)

In My Life (The Beatles)

Misirlou (Dick Dale)

My Way (Frank Sinatra)

(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding)

Stand By Me (Ben E. King)

Strangers In The Night (Frank Sinatra)

The Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra)

Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)

Twist & Shout (The Beatles)

What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)

Don't Worry Baby (The Beach Boys)

It's Now Or Never (Elvis Presley)

1970’s

Breezin’ (George Benson)

Desperado (The Eagles)

Europa (Santana)

Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)

How Deep Is Your Love? (The Bee Gees)

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (James Taylor)

Let It Be (The Beatles)

Lovely Day (Bill Withers)

Maybe I’m Amazed (The Beatles)

She’s Got A Way (Billy Joel)

The Best Of My Love (The Eagles)

The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles)

Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)

YMCA (Village People)

1980’s

Africa (Toto)

Always With Me, Always With You (Joe Satriani)

Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)

Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty)

Hit Me With You Best Shot (Pat Benatar)

In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel)

Just The Two Of Us (Grover Washington Jr./Bill Withers)

Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Man In The Mirror (Michael Jackson)

New York, New York (Frank Sinatra)

Smiles and Smiles To Go (Larry Carlton)

Your Love (The Outfield)

1990’s

Cliffs of Dover (Eric Johnson)

Days Like This (Van Morrison)

Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away (Vince Gill)

Fields Of Gold (Sting)

I’ll Be (Edwin McCain)

Make You Feel My Love (Garth Brooks)

My Maria (Brooks & Dunn)

Neon Moon (Brooks & Dunn)

Real Love (The Beatles)

Santeria (Sublime)

Shine (Collective Soul)

2000’s

Chicken Fried (Zac Brown Band)

Follow Me (Uncle Cracker)

Jaded (Aerosmith)

Love Story (Taylor Swift)

Mr. Brightside (The Killers)

Smooth (Santana)

The Middle (Jimmy Eat World)

The Way You Love Me (Faith Hill)

What Hurts The Most (Rascal Flatts)

You’ll Be In My Heart (Phill Collins/Disney)

2010’s +

Dayliight (Maroon 5)

Die A Happy Man (Thomas Rhett)

Flowers (Miley Cyrus)

Locked Out Of Heaven (Bruno Mars)

Perfect (Ed Sheeran)

Shut Up & Dance (Walk The Moon)

Speechless (Dan & Shay)

The Story Of My Life (One Direction)

Thinking Out Loud (Thomas Rhett)

What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction)

Solo Guitar Shows Songlist (current & upcoming songs - 459 songs as of Dec 2024)

The 1950’s

Ain’t That A Shame

All I Have To Do Is Dream

All Shook Up

At The Hop

Autumn Leaves

Blueberry Hill

Bye Bye Love

Chances Are

Come And Go With Me

Don’t Be Cruel

Donna

Earth Angel

Everyday

Folsom Prison Blues

He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands

Hound Dog

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Jailhouse Rock

La Bamba

Love Me Tender

Mack The Knife

Maybe Baby

Mr. Sandman

Not Fade Away

Peggy Sue

Que Sera, Sera

Rave On!

Rock Around The Clock

Sleepwalk

Summertime Blues

Tequila (instrumental)

That’ll Be The Day

The Great Pretender

Venus

Wake Up Little Susie

Walkin’ After Midnight

Why Do Fools Fall In Love?

You Send Me

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The 1960’s

A Hard Day’s Night

Apache (instrumental)

Baby I Need Your Lovin’

Bad Moon Rising

Be My Baby

Beyond The Sea

Blue Velvet

Brown Eyed Girl

Build Me Up Buttercup

California Dreamin’

Can’t Help Falling In Love

Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You

Cathy’s Clown

Crying

Daydream Believer

Don’t Worry Baby

Down On The Corner

El Paso

For Once In My Life

Fun, Fun, Fun

Galveston

God Only Knows

Good Vibrations

Green Onions (instrumental)

Hello Mary Lou

Here Comes The Sun

Hey Jude

Homeward Bound

Honky Tonk Women

I Can’t Help Myself

I Can’t Stop Loving You

I Get Around

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

I’m A Believer

In My Life

In My Room

It’s Now Or Never

I’ve Just Seen A Face

I Wanna Be Free

I Want To Hold Your Hand

I Was Made To Love Her

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

King Of The Road

Last Train To Clarksville

Misirlou (instrumental)

Moon River

Mrs. Robinson

My Cherie Amour

My Girl

Oh, Pretty Woman

Only The Lonely

Pipeline (instrumental)

Pleasant Valley Sunday

Proud Mary

Ruby Tuesday

Runaround Sue

Runaway

Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No)

Save The Last Dance For Me (The Drifters)

Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay

Son Of A Preacher Man

Stand By Me

Strangers In The Night

Sugar, Sugar

Sunshine Of Your Love

Surfer Girl

Surfin’ Safari

Surfin’ U.S.A.

Sweet Caroline

The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Loco-Motion

The Sound Of Silence

The Way You Do The Things You Do

Theme from “A Summer Place”

Travelin’ Man

Under My Thumb

Under The Boardwalk

Uptight (Everything’s Alright)

Valeri

Volare

Walk Away Renee

Walk, Don’t Run (instrumental)

What A Wonderful World

While My Guitar Genltly Weeps

With A Little Help From My Friends

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Yesterday

You Can’t Hurry Love

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling

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The 1970’s

25 or 6 to 4

A Horse With No Name

ABC

Ain’t No Sunshine

Already Gone

An Old Fashioned Love Song

Annie’s Song

Baby Come Back

Baby I Love Your Way

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Band Of Gold

Beast Of Burden

Beginnings

Bell Bottom Blues

Best Of My Love

Black Magic Woman

Black Water

Blue Bayou

Brandy

Breezin’

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Brown Sugar

Burning Love

Can’t Smile Without You

Cecilia

China Grove

Close to You

Cold As Ice

Colour My World

Come and Get It

Come And Get Your Love

Crocodile Rock

Dance With Me

Dancing In The Moonlight

Day After Day

Desperado

Do It Again

Doctor My Eyes

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Domino

Don’t Pull Your Love

Down On The Corner

Dream On

Drift Away

D’yer Mak’er

Europa

Everybody Plays The Fool

Everything Is Beautiful

Evil Ways

Fallin’ In Love

Feels So Good

Fire And Rain

Fool In The Rain

Fortunate Son

Give Me Love

Go All The Way

Going To California

Go Your Own Way

Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Heartache Tonight

Heart Of Gold

Heat Wave (Linda Ronstadt)

Higher Ground

Hotel California

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

How Deep Is Your Love?

How Long?

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

I Can See Clearly Now

I Can’t Tell You Why

I Just Wanna Stop

In The City

I Shot The Sheriff

I Want You Back

I Wish

I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing

I’d Really Love To See You Tonight

I’ll Be There (Jacksons)

I’ll Take You There

If

If You Could Read My Mind

If You Leave Me Now

Imagine

In The Summertime

Isn’t She Lovely

It’s Too Late

Just My Imagination

Just The Way You Are

Just When I Needed You Most

Kashmir

Killing Me Softly

Knock Three Times

Lay Down Sally

Lean On Me

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Let It Be

Let You Love Flow

Lights

Listen To What The Man Said

Listen To The Music

Long And Winding Road, The

Long Train Runnin’

Lookin’ Out My Back Door

Lovely Day

Love Train

Love Will Keep Us Together

Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’

Maggie May

Magic

Make It With You

Make Me Smile

Mandy

Margaritaville

Mercy Mercy Me

Minute By Minute

More Than A Feeling

Morning Has Broken

My Baby Loves Lovin’

My Life (Billy Joel)

My Love

My Maria

My Sharona

My Sweet Lord

New Kid In Town

No Matter What

Oh Girl

On And On

On Broadway

One Of These Nights

Ooh Child

Operator

Over The Hills And Far Away

Play That Funky Music

Peaceful Easy Feeling

Peace Of Mind

Pretty Maids All In A Row

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

Rainy Days and Mondays

Ramblin’ Man

Reelin’ In The Years

Reflections of My Life

Reminiscing

Rhiannon

Rich Girl

Rocket Man

Running On Empty

Sail On Sailor

Saturday In The Park

Say You Love Me

She’s Got A Way

Show Me The Way (Frampton)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours

Silly Love Songs

Sir Duke

Sister Golden Hair

Sloop John B.

Something

Song Sung Blue

South City Midnight Lady

Southern Nights

Stairway To Heaven

Stayin’ Alive

Still The One

Stuck In The Middle

Sunshine (Johnathan Edwards)

Sunshine On My Shoulders

Superstar

Superstition

Sweet Home Alabama

Tangerine

Take It Easy

Take It To The Limit

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Takin’ It To The Streets

Tears Of A Clown

Tequila Sunrise

The Boxer

The Candy Man

The Long Run

The Things We Do For Love

Tie A Yellow Ribbon

Time In A Bottle

Tonight’s The Night

Too Late to Turn Back Now

Top Of The World (Carpenters)

Turn To Stone

We’ve Only Just Begun

What A Fool Believes

What You Won’t Do For Love

What’s Goin’ On

When Will I Be Loved

Wild Horses

With A Little Luck

Wonderful Tonight

You Are The Sunshine of My Life

You Light Up My Life

You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

You’re In My Heart

You’re My Best Friend

You’re So Vain

You’ve Got a Friend

Your Song

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The 1980’s

Africa

Against All Odds

Alone

Always With Me, Always With You

Any Way You Want It

Arthur’s Theme

Bad Love

Beat It

Billie Jean

Broken Wings

Can’t Fight This Feeling

Crazy For You

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Crazy Train

Don’t Dream It’s Over

Don’t Stop Belivin’

Down Under

Easy Lover

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Faith

Faithfully

Footloose

Got My Mind Set On You

Hard To Say I’m Sorry

Hurts So Good

I Can’t Go For That

In Your Eyes

I Love A Rainy Night

I Want To Know What Love Is

It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me

Jack and Diane

Jessie’s Girl

Jump

Just The Two Of Us

Keep On Loving You

Livin’ On A Prayer

Man In The Mirror

Maneater

Open Arms

Overkill

Photograph

Ride Like The Wind

Rock With You

Rosanna

Sailing

Sea Of Love

Send Her My Love

Separate Ways

Still They Ride

Stone In Love

Somewhere Out There

Take On Me

Theme From “The Greatest American Hero”

Turn Your Love Around

Uptown Girl

Waiting For A Girl Like You

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

What’s Love Got To Do With It

Who Can It Be Now?

Who’s Crying Now

Woman

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The 1990’s and up

Bent

Black Hole Sun

Breathe (Faith Hill)

Cliffs Of Dover

Crush 

Daylight

Days Like This

Die A Happy Man

Drive (Incubus)

Fields Of Gold

Follow Me

Free Fallin’

Gravity

Haven’t Met You Yet

I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing

I’ll Be There For You

If You’re Gone

Jaded

Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)

Love Somebody

Love Story

Make You Feel My Love

Mama, I’m Coming Home

Man In The Mirror

Meant To Live

Mr. Brightside

My Father’s Eyes

Need You Now

Over My Head (Cable Car)

Party In The U.S. A.

Perfect

Santeria

Satellite

Shut Up And Dance

Speechless

Story Of My Life

Tears In Heaven

The Middle

The Story Of My Life

Thinking Out Loud

To Be With You

Treat You Better

What Hurts The Most

What Makes You Beautiful

What Makes You Beautiful

Who Knew

Wicked Game

You’re A God

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DISNEY

Beauty And The Beast

Let It Go

You’ll Be In My Heart

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 **CHRISTMAS MUSIC**

All Alone On Christmas – Darlene Love

All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley

Christmas Vacation – Theme from Christmas Vacation

Christmastime Is Here – Charlie Brown Christmas

Deck The Halls

Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano

Frosty The Snowman

Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) – John Lennon

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - The Pretenders

It’s Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) – U2/Darlene Love

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bell Rock – Hall & Oates

Last Christmas – Wham!

Let It Snow!

Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys

Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby

Miraculum – Lincoln Brewster

Please Come Home For Christmas – The Eagles

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Silent Night

Silver Bells

The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Winter Wonderland

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