Hello
I have a sort of scrappy little band I enjoy very much and we do this and that, some of it beautiful and some of it fun and some of it sock-you-in-the-ear.

When we get something that stands out, I always wish we had some more in the same category, to repeat the effect but rotate material.

One piece that will shock a barroom into attention, whether it's the song itself or the way we grab it, is "Donkey Riding," which I first heard by the Black Family.

Another in the category which we've all sung in someone else's band (but can't seem to punch out hard enough ourselves) is "Barrett's Privateers."

Looking for more of these. Guess they would be minor-y, modal-y tales or shanties lending themselves to strident group refrains.

Songs I can think of are Haul Away, Joe; Chicken on a Raft; Byker Hill. But either they don't quite do it for me, or I don't quite for them. Might be lack of imagination in arrangement. Maybe I have to get the idea from how someone else does the song. If I'd heard "Donkey Riding" from someone else it might not have sparked me.

Ideas? Tunes themselves, and particular performances?

My first entry here. "TIA."
BTW, I don't know how to get replies from this forum. I'll try to retrofigure that out, or bookmark it.

Dennis