List of Up Beat Blues Songs Good for Dancing

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Need some danceable blues tunes to add to our set.

• Thread starter straightblues
• Start date Nov 4, 2012

• #1

The bar that has been hiring us on a weekly basis has requested that we add some more "dance" songs to our set. We play traditional blues. What blues songs will get people up and dancing for sure?

• #2

I'd like to know also.
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• #3

Delbert McClinton - Shaky Ground

• #4

up tempo shuffles aren't working? Might want to work in some classic R&B and swing type numbers. We could name tunes 'til the lights go out, but you're on the west coast, listen to some of the guys, James Harman and William Clarke both have played some great swingin dancable traditional stuff. But, just say no to Mustang Silly.

• #5

Billy Boy Arnold's "I Wish You Would" always gets them up, as does "Ain't Got You".

The Clarke recommendation is on the money. Try "Feel Like Jumping" and "Educated Fool".

Also Rod Piazza's "Somebody" and Robillard's "Too Hot Too Handle".

You'll have the ladies on the dance floor, guaranteed, as long as you nail the grooves.

• #6

we do some up tempo Tommy Castro tunes/arrangements that seem to work:

Sho Nuff
Good Fool is Hard to Find
Nasty Habits
Suga Sweet

• #7

we do some up tempo Tommy Castro tunes/arrangements that seem to work:

Sho Nuff
Good Fool is Hard to Find
Nasty Habits
Suga Sweet

Yeah Nasty Habits always get a crowd moving

• #8

Yeah Nasty Habits always get a crowd moving

Yup, I used to play that one with good success. A couple of others that come to mind is "If you Love Me Like You Say" by Albert Collins and various artists and "Bad Love" by Luther Allison.

Alot of SRV songs would work too...I think the key here is playing something with Blues content, that's danceable and something that people may know.

• #9

Shake Your Hips by Slim Harpo is a good one

• #10

Delbert McClinton - Shaky Ground

Another Delbert tune to consider is "Every Time I Roll the Dice"

• #11

.... But, just say no to Mustang Silly.

Buddy Guy re-did Mustang Sally!

.....You'll have the ladies on the dance floor, guaranteed, as long as you nail the grooves.

That's the secret! Your drummer HAS to play good dance beats for ANY song to be danceable.

• #13

Box shuffles seem to get people up, like Let Me Love You Baby, though it certainly doesn't have to be that particular song.

• #14

Rip This Joint - Rolling Stones

Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites (more of bar boogie, but still a good one and everyone knows it)

The House Is Rockin' - SRV

Shine A Light - Rolling Stones (Maybe not blues, but certainly a Van Morrison-esque blues feel with some reggae flavor.)

• #15

I love it when the club tells the band what to play. Truth be known if you brought in tons of people while beating on pale with a wooden spoon in a diaper they wouldn't care. Danceable is really subjective their is no formula for what gets people going from night to night, if they are drunk enough they will dance to anything. The grinder and the boogaloo are always catnip to the drunken cougar. One time I played with Harman in redondo beach. It was great we played a boogaloo and right when he wanted to end it a drunken herd came in dancing. He turned around and said "alright then". and we played that groove for the next 20 minutes. Keep in mind James is the only guy I know who could make that happen.

• #16

Good Rockin' Daddy
Hey Bartender

• #17

Most of the Thorogood hits should do.

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors

• #18

Really depends on the location. Around here (Madison WI) Blues fans will dance to any straight ahead traditional shuffle if it is played right

Anyways, in general, Mustang Sally usually fills the dancefloor with 40 and 50 something women. I've noticed that the younger Blues fans like to dance to something with some swing to it, so stuff like "Every Day I Have the Blues" and "Rock This House" work well for that

• #19

You need some sex grooves to go with the shuffles. Straight 4/4s without the triplet feel. The 'Tramp' groove is good, you can use it on 'I Can Tell'. Also a swamp groove like 'Scratch My Back'. Either of those can be sexy as hell. Go straight from Scratch My Back into a rip-roaring dirty open E shuffle and the roof might start to lift off. A rock n roll tune once in a while can also light the dancing spark, as can a funk blues.

• #20

Trick Bag is a good 'un.

Johnny Guitar Watson's Looking Back also brings it.

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