Songs I stole from other (in most cases better) artists.
Downtown Train (3.4M) (Waits): Rod Stewart stole this song from Tom Waits. I'm stealing it back.
City of New Orleans (3.5M) (Goodman): Arlo Guthrie did the most famous version of this song.
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2.3M) (Dylan): A classic Bob Dylan song.
Upward Over the Mountain (3.1M) (Beam): An Iron & Wine song. I love the original.
Daysleeper (1.4M) (Buck/Mills/Stipe): A really underrated R.E.M. song.
The Chimbley Sweep (3.1M) (Meloy): A Decemberists cover.
Mad World (2.7M) (Orzabal): One of my favorite Tears For Fears songs. My favorite is "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," but that sounds boring on acoustic guitar.
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (3.5M) (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe): This always goes over big live, mostly because I know all the lyrics from memory.
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2.9M) (Dylan): More Dylan.
P.S. (2.9M) (Phillips/Nichols/Dinning/Guss): A Toad the Wet Sprocket cover.
Bomb the World (2.8M) (Franti): A peace song, by Michael Franti from Spearhead. I first heard it while driving, late at night, and was very moved.
Cold Brains (2.6M) (Beck): Typically nonsensical Beck song.
Hallelujah (1.7M) (Cohen): Leonard Cohen cover, by way of Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright.
Comfortably Numb (3.6M) (Waters/Gilmour): My second favorite Pink Floyd song.
867-5309 (3.0M) (?): It's that Tommy Tutone song from the 1980s. Admit it, this song is a guilty pleasure.
Something In the Way (2.6M) (Cobain/Novoselic/Grohl): Nirvana song I did because it has only two chords in it.
Times Like These (3.4M) (Grohl): Foo Fighters cover.
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (1.4M) (Dylan): I like to play this song partly because too many people believe the Guns 'N Roses version was the original.
Patience (3.8M) (Rose/Slash/Stradlin/McKagan/Adler): This one actually is a Guns 'N Roses song. I learned it because the bartender at the bar I was playing at at the time promised me a free beer if I did.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (9.3M) (Lightfoot): The Gordon Lightfoot song, played as slow and sad as I could.
Karma Police (4.6M) (Yorke/Greenwood/Selway/O'Brien/Greenwood): Radiohead song. Where else are you going to hear the line "her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill"?