January Acoustic Jam

This afternoon was our fifth consecutive monthly session of the Downingtown Area Acoustic Jam group that we found out about through meetup.com. It felt like a long time between meetups, and looking at the calendar, it's been six weeks since the last one

You're encouraged to bring two new songs to every meetup (printed tabs enough for the group of 15 people.) We didn't have much time to think about this, so we brought one new song ("Amie", by the Pure Prairie League - which was very well received by the group, as it's an easy strumming song and fun to sing along to), and one song that we'd brought to a previous meetup (Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".)

The songs we played, as best I can remember, are as follows. The songs we picked are marked with asterisks.

• Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)
• Dirty Old Town (The Pogues)
• It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr)
• Rainy Day Women (Bob Dylan)
• After the Goldrush (Neil Young)
• Amie (Pure Prairie League) ***
• Ring Around the Moon (Greg Brown)
• Hey Good Lookin' (Hank Williams)
• I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (The Four Tops)
• Steel Rail Blues (Gordon Lightfoot)
• Country Roads (John Denver)
• Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)
• Help (The Beatles)
• Red Clay (Gillian Welch)
• Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan) ***
• Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon (Greg Brown)
• California Stars (Wilco)
• Let it Be (The Beatles)
• Deportee (Woody Guthrie)
• Makin' Whoopee (Eddie Cantor)
• Good Luck John (Joe Crookston)

Another fun afternoon, and we're looking forward to next month's meetup.