Distillers American Roots Song List

Contemporary

Bright Side of the Road – Van Morrison
Devil's Son 
– The Creepshow
Early Morning Rain – Gordon Lightfoot
(The) Garden – The Creepshow
House of Mercy
– Sarah Jarosz
If it Hadnt Been for Love
– Steel Drivers
If I Ever Needed Someone - Van Morrison
I'll Be Your Lover Too – Van Morrison
I'm Yours – Jason Mraz
I’ve Got a Feeling  – Richard Thompson
Mystic Highway – John Fogerty
New Shoes – Paolo Nutini
Rhythm of Love – Plain White Tees
These Boots Made for Walking – Lee Hazelwood
Three Little Birds  – Bob Marley
To Make You Feel My Love  – Bob Dylan
Under My Thumb – Rolling Stones
Urge for Going – Joni Mitchell
Wish I Was the Moon Tonight – Neko Case


Jazz and Blues

After You've Gone – Turner Layton
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Harold Arlan and Ted Koehler
Comes Love – Sam Stept, Lew Brown and Charles Tobias
(The) Fatman Cometh  – Fats Kaplan
Fever – Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell
Just the Way You Look Tonight – Turner Layton
Mojo Workin’ Blues – Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out  – Jimmie Cox
One Meatball – George Martin Lane
Please Mr. Jailer – Patrick Williams
Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Summertime – George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward
Turn Me On
– Norah Jones
What a Wonderful World – Sam Cooke, Lou Adler, and Herb Alpert

 

Irish/Traditional


Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering  – William Ferguson
Balkan Hills 
 – traditional
Banks of the Sweet Viledee – traditional 
Boys of Wexford – traditional 
(The) Butterfly – traditional
Cameron Highlanders 
 – traditional
Christmas Eve Reel – traditional
Connaughtman's Rambles – traditional
Cooley’s Reel – traditional
Cunla – traditional
Danny Boy – Frederick Weatherly
Exile From Erin – traditional
Galway Girl
– Steve Earle
Hen's March to the Midden – traditional
High Reel – traditional
Hymme a L'amour
– Edith Piaf
I Courted a Wee Lass/My Love He Did Court Me  –traditional 
Josefin’s Waltz – Olov Johansson
King of the Faeries – traditional
Little Beggar Man – traditional
(The) King’s Shilling – Ian Sinclair
Langstrum's Pony – traditional 
Last of the Mohicans – Maire Brennan and Dougie MacLean
Lafferty's Reel – traditional
Love at the Endings – traditional
Maid Behind the Bar – traditional
Marie Breathnach’s Reel – traditional  
Morpeth Rant – traditional English
Morrison’s Jig – traditional
My Love is in America – traditional
My Lagan Love – traditional with lyrics by Joseph Campbell
North State Ramble  – traditional
Old Tune – traditional
Palmer's Gate – traditional
Rakish Paddy – traditional
Ready for the Storm – Dougie MacLean
Red Haired Mary – Sean McCarthy
Rocky Road to Dublin – traditional with lyrics by D.K. Gavin
Saint Anne's Reel 
– traditional 
Sligo Creek – traditional
Star Above the Garter – traditional 
Tamlyn's Reel – traditional
Three Fishers – Charles Kingsley
Verdant Braes of Screen – traditional
Willie and Mary – traditional


 

American

Ain’t No Grave – Brother Claude Ely
Bill Cheatem – traditional
(Bring Me Little Water) Sylvy – Leadbelly
Bull at the Wagon – traditional
Campbell’s Farewell to Red Cap – traditional 
Cluck Old Hen – traditional
Come On Up To The House 
– Tom Waits 
(Take Me Home) Country Roads
– Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert & John Denver
Danny's Song
– Kenny Loggins
Don't Think Twice It's Alright
– Bob Dylan
Dry & Dusty – traditional
First Day of My Life
– Bright Eyes
Gold Inside of You 
– John Prine
Hard Times – Stephen Foster
Hit the Road Jack  – Percy Mayfield
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams, Sr.
Legends of the Fall – James Horner
Love Song
– The Cure
Orphan Girl – Gillian Welch
People Get Ready – Curtis Mayfield 
Rox in the Box
– The Decemberists
Train, Train
– Detour
You Are the Best Thing
– Ray LaMontagne
Wagon Wheel – Ketch Secor and Bob Dylan
When You Say Nothing At All 
– Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz
 

Fiddle Tunes

Ashokan Farewell – Jay Unger
Breakin’ Up Christmas – traditional
Cluck Ol' Hen – traditional
Cripple Creek – traditional
Devil's Dream – traditional
Dry and Dusty – traditional
Elzick's Blues – traditional
(The) Fatman Cometh
– Fats Kaplan
Log Cabin – Steve Kaufman
Maloney Road – Fats Kaplan
My Old Home – traditional
Pachabel's Fancy – traditional
Salt River – traditional
Soldier's Joy
 – traditional 


Originals

Bob’s Blues – Bob Freeman
Clover Hill – Wyatt Freeman and Ken Hess
Jug of Cider – Bob Freeman
Tell a Peaceful Story – Wyatt Freeman and Ken Hess
Wine, Wool & Wonder – Wyatt Freeman and Ken Hess


Blues, Irish, American Roots