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Welcome to my easy folk songs on guitar page. Below are demos, free chord sheets and if required, you can purchase any lesson for a few bucks. See prices above for bulk discounts.
Artists on this page: Alexi Murdoch
Badly Drawn Boy - Billy Bragg
Brewer & Shipley
Christopher Cross - City & Color
Dave Loggins
David Francy - David Mallett
David Olney - Foy Vance
Hayden - Iron & Wine
Jeff Tweedy - Jim Ford
John Sebastian - Jonathan Edwards
Julian Lage - Keith Carradine
Ken Tobias - Lord Huron
Loudain Wainwright III
Michael McDermott
Nathaniel Rateliff - Noel Paul Stookey
Paul Brady - Paul Carrack
Peter Maffay - R Dean Taylor
Ron Sexsmith - Sean Rowe
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Tim Buckley - Uncle Tupelo
Valdy - Walk Off The Earth
Will Kimborough
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12. I'll Be Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind - Jim Ford
I'll Be Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind is a 2008 track on the CD "Point Of No Return Unreleased Masters, A Lost 45 & Rare Demos".
I don't believe this was released as a single but has been recorded by a few other artists. Nick Lowe was a big fan of Jim Ford who passed away in 2007.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: No
Rhythm: down up stop up down up stop up and repeat
Josie is a song written by Dion and was recorded by German artist Peter Maffay. He released an album of the same name back in 1975. I'm not sure if this was ever a single or not.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: No
Rhythm: down down up down up down up down up down up and repeat
One Toke Over The Line was the debut single for the duo Brewer and Shipley back in 1971. Both artists recall being out of it and Tom Shipley kept saying he was one toke over the line. That was the inspiration for the tune.
The duo only had this song that reached the top 40 and peaked at #10 in the US, #5 in Canada and #7 in New Zealand. The song is on their album "Tarkio".
Orange Sky is a single from the 2002 album by Alexi Murdoch entitled Four Songs. The song was featured in the movie Garden State and Ladder 49 as well as several TV shows and commercials.
There is no indication that this song was ever released as a single.
Please Come To Boston was Dave Loggins only big song which hit #1 in the US and #4 in Canada back in 1974.
This song hails from the album Apprentice. He charted a sone called Someday from this same album at #57 and a third song in 1979 called Pieces Of April at #22.
Sailing was a debut song from the album "Christopher Cross" and hit the airwaves in the summer of 1980. The song was almost not released as a single but when it did, it hit #1 in the US. It also won a Grammy and other awards.
The song was also a #1 in Canada and a top 40 in several other countries.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: No
Rhythm: down up down up up down up and repeat
Picking: No but a few riffs in the rhythm
Chords: Bm, Gbm, Dbm, E, A, F, G, D#, E#, C, Ab. A#
Sebastian is a song released in 1971 after the breakup of Peter, Paul and Mary. There is an album of 5 songs out there called "Paul And" which contains this track.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: 3rd fret
Rhythm: root 2-3 up down up works best for this one
She Burns is a 2016 song from the album "The Wild Swan" which is the 3rd album from Northern Ireland musician Foy Vance. Elton John produced this album and many say this song, She Burns, could have been a Springsteen composition.
I don't believe this song was ever a single release.
Stonewall is from a 2003 album by David Olney entitled "The Wheel". Onley had several of his songs recorded by big name entertainers including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Linda Ronstadt and others.
This song was never released as a single to my knowledge.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: No
Rhythm: root down up down up bass down up down up and repeat
Sunshine was Jonathan Edwards' highest charting song reaching #4 in the US, #7 in Canada and #45 in Australia. The engineer accidentally erased a a song for the album called Please Find Me.
So Sunshine was used to finish the album and was selected as the single. It's from his debut album "Jonathan Edwards" from 1971.
Welcome Back was released in 1976 by the front man for The Lovin Spoonful, John Sebastian who wrote and recorded this song. It appeared as the theme song for the TV show Welcome Back Kotter.
The song peaked at #1 in the US and is from the album of the same name.
Drop D Tuning: No
Capo: No
Rhythm: down down up down up down up with a few shuffle strums
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