listing of rock songs w/mando

[mandelect]

Just listened to the great Alan Hull solo album "Pipedream", from 1973 - not heard it for years.

Tracks with mandolin: "Money Game", "STD 0632" and the wonderful "United States Of Mind" - I can't find any live video of the album version but you can hear it on youtube:

*ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqe7XgBrAE4

[journeybear]

It is really great to hear about all these bands and musicians! I had no idea all this was happening - on this side of the pond they didn't get much airplay, at least I never encountered them.

So please, for the purpose of this thread, which has become something of a project, please list for us all as many songs by them that feature mandolin. This is for more than just chat, this is hopefully for the enlightenment of everyone interested in these matters, which we find so fascinating, and also for future generations! That's right - it's for the kids. Do it for the kids!

Thank you so much for taking a few minutes to do that. Much appreciated.

[Tosh Marshall]

I am sad to report that Martin Jenkins passed away last month in Sofia Bulgaria. As far as I'm concerned, he simply was one of the best mandolinists from this side of the pond and unfortunately I never got to see him play. However his music lives on and a brief discography of his is:

Dando Shaft - An Evening With Dando Shaft 1970
Dando Shaft - Dando Shaft 1971
Dando Shaft - Lantaloon 1972
Dando Shaft - Kingdom - 1977
Plainsong - In Search Of Amelia Earhart - 1972
Hedgehog Pie - Hedgehog Pie 1975
Hedgehog Pie - Green Lady 1975
Richard Digance - How The West Was Lost - 1975
Bert Jansch - Avocet - 1979
Bert Jansch - Thirteen Down - 1980
Whippersnapper (Dave Swarbrick) - Promises - 1985
Whippersnapper (Dave Swarbrick) - Tsubo - 1987
Whippersnapper (Dave Swarbrick) - These Foolish Strings - 1988
Whippersnapper (Dave Swarbrick) - Fortune - 1989
Loreena McKennit - Book Of Secrets - 1997

[Jim MacDaniel]

Word cloud inspired by this thread thus far.

[mandelect]

Just listened to "Hymns For Bast~rds" by Paddy and The Rats - excellent Hungarian Celtic Punk band, with lots of mandolin on show. Love the full ahead punk stuff but the mandolin is more noticeable on the ballads:

"You Never Walk Alone" (Not the Rodgers & Hammerstein / Gerry & the Pacemakers You'll Never Walk Alone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGgI...eature=related

"Paddy's Ballad";
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7BX...eature=related

...and "Off The Waggon" (definitely not a ballad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdIo...eature=related

[Jim MacDaniel]

Afro Celt Sound System, w/ Peter Gabriel...

[Lefty3]

The new Butch Walker album "The Spade" has 4 songs that feature the mandolin.
"Bodegas and Blood"
"Synthesizers" (actually banjolin)
"Dublin Crow"
"The Closest Thing to You I'm Gonna Find"

[Gary Bacchus]

Anybody mention Dropkick Murphys?

[fredfletcher]

A Rory Gallagher song that has not been mentioned is "Going to my hometown". Rory was such a talented musician!

[fredfletcher]

Here are two links to Rory Gallagher's "Going to my hometown" on YouTube, ENjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RQoo46N4a0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYYbK2sDaJ4

[mrmando]

OK, been all up and down this thread, and here's one that seems to have flown under the radar thus far. Guess we don't have enough hardcore metal fans on the Cafe:

"Reload" by Ministry, from Filth Pig (1996), with front man Al Jourgensen on mandolin. He even takes a lead break!

Here's a YouTube clip of a live performance. Lyrics are definitely not family-friendly, so proceed at your own risk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUg6y...eature=related

If that's not enough, someone recently attempted to auction one of Al's mandolins (a cheap Samick-made axe branded "Alabama") for $3,500. Heck, if you want it, it's probably still available:

http://www.backstageauctions.com/cat...lin/i/0/11083/

[journeybear]

Anybody mention Dropkick Murphys?

They have been mentioned - if only once, and without any specific songs. This is a listing of rock songs w/mando, so for this to be a true resource we need song titles, not just band names.

A Rory Gallagher song that has not been mentioned is "Going to my hometown."

It has, too, of course it has, several times. And it is on the alpha list I compiled a couple years ago, posts #95 & 96. The list is too long to be contained in one post.

Every now and then I say I am going to update the list, and I guess it is getting to be time to make good on that. Maybe if the list appears more recently in the thread it will be more readily seen by those wondering whether this or that song is on it. Also, since the Mayan calendar is running out soon and the world is going to end, it would be nice to have this as complete as possible, just in case other civilizations in faraway galaxies are able to pick up our signal. Of course, if anyone else wants to do the grunt work, I would be happy to edit. Hint hint.

[journeybear]

So ... I started working on updating the list, and thought I would jump right in with Rory Gallagher. Members have mentioned four songs by him, and "Going To My Home Town" (note official spelling) gets mentioned so much this seemed a good place to start. I went to the wiki and his website, since I have no better source for this information. But I ran into some problems, which I hope his fans - or at least album owners - can help solve. On the albums "Blueprint" and "Tattoo" there are mandolin credits, but I don't know which songs it is played on. On "Top Priority" Tom Brock gets a mandolin credit, but not sure which song(s) he plays on - indeed, the official website doesn't mention him at all. On "Fresh Evidence," his last studio album, the wiki has no instrument credits at all - though his website does have a mandola credit for him again, no song citation. I don't see the song "Leaving Town Blues," cited by a member, on any album. There is a song called "Leavin' Blues," on a Taste album, with no mandolin credit. This entry is going in the dust bin unless someone provides a citation. In all this I learned that "Going To My Home Town" seems to be a live-only number, though it does appear on the posthumously released acoustic album "Wheels Within Wheels," a collection of lost recordings and outtakes. The guitar on that version is played by skiffle great Lonnie Donegan. I'd like to hear that.

So there went an hour, with not much progress. Now I remember why I've put off further work on this. And this is over just four songs - er, make that three - oh, wait, there might be more ... see what I mean? Please, Rory Gallagher fans - look through your albums, listen to the ones I mentioned, let us know which songs feature mandolin. Thank you!

[journeybear]

THE LIST SO FAR (PART 2)

Jack The Lad - Draught Genius (Polka)
Jack The Lad - One More Dance
Jack The Lad - Why Can't I Be Satisfied
Jars Of Clay - Liquid
Jars Of Clay - Lonely People
Jars Of Clay - Love Song For A Savior
Jars Of Clay - No One Loves Me Like You
Jars Of Clay - On Jordan's Stormy Banks
Jayhawks - Mr. Rain
Jethro Tull - Acres Wild
Jethro Tull - A Christmas Song
Jethro Tull - Dun Ringill
Jethro Tull - Fallen On Hard Times
Jethro Tull - Fat Man
Jethro Tull - Fire At Midnight
Jethro Tull - Flying Dutchman
Jethro Tull - Glory Row
Jethro Tull - Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket and Tie
Jethro Tull - Inside
Jethro Tull - Jack In The Green
Jethro Tull - Love Story
Jethro Tull - Pine Martin's Jig
Jethro Tull - Roll Your Own
Jethro Tull - Slow Marching Band
Jethro Tull - Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall
Jethro Tull - Tall Thin Girl
Jethro Tull - Warm Sporran
Jethro Tull - Weathercock
Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Elton John - Holiday Inn
Elton John - Texan Love Story
Elton John - Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes
Davy Johnstone - A Lark In The Morning With Mrs. McLeod
Davy Johnstone - A Lovely Day
Davy Johnstone - Janine
Davy Johnstone - Walking Out
Jokke & Valentinerne - Jeg Er Redd
John Paul Jones - Freedom Song
Sass Jordan - I Want To Believe
Milla Jovovich - Gentleman Who Fell
Milla Jovovich - It's Your Life
Milla Jovovich - Charlie
Milla Jovovich - Clock
Bap Kennedy - Dirty Old Town
The Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship
Cheri Knight - All Blue
Cheri Knight - Dar Glasgow
Cheri Knight - Northeast Kingdom
Cheri Knight - Rose In The Vine
Cheri Knight - Sweetheart
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Anymore For Anymore
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Debris
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Heard This One Before
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - How Come
Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore
Led Zeppelin - Boogie With Stu
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
Led Zeppelin - Going To California
Led Zeppelin - Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?
Led Zepellin - That's The Way
Deke Leonard - Sharpened Claws
The Leopards - Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Ann
Gordon Lightfoot - Alberta Bound
David Lindley - The Turning Point
Little Village - Solar Sex Panel
Loggins & Messina - Be Free
Loggins & Messina - Brighter Days
Loggins & Messina - Watching The River Run
Nick Lowe - Jumbo Ark
Lynryd Skynyrd - Mississippi Kid
Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walkin' Blues
John Martyn - Over The Hill
Paul McCartney - Dance Tonight
McGuiness-Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone
John Mellencamp - Small Town (acoustic version)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Steve Miller - Dance Dance Dance
Ministry - Reload
Keb Mo - Everything I Need
Morphine - In Spite Of Me
Van Morrison - I Want To Roo You
Van Morrison - Moonshine Whiskey
Mott The Hoople - I Wish I Was Your Mother
Shawn Mullins - Homemade Wine
Peter Mulvey - If Love Is Not Enough
Muse - Blackout
Nash The Slash - Guns And Sandwiches
Nash The Slash - I'll Wait For You
Nash The Slash and FM - Black Noise
North Mississippi Allstars - Used To Be
The O'Keanes - This Ain't Love
Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth
Mike Oldfield - Taurus 3
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2
Joan Osborne - Can't Say No
Joan Osborne - Hallelujah In The City (mandola)
Joan Osborne - Saint Teresa
Paddy and The Rats - Off The Waggon
Paddy and The Rats - Paddy's Ballad
Paddy and The Rats - You Never Walk Alone
Page & Plant - Battle of Evermore
Page & Plant - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Alan Parson Project - Pavane
Gram Parsons - Cash On The Barrelhead/Hickory Wind
Dave Pegg - Barnes Morris
A Perfect Circle - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Tom Petty - It'll All Work Out
Robert Plant - Colors of a Shade
Robert Plant - If I Were A Carpenter
The Pogues – Sunny Side of The Street
Poison - Stand
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel
Gerry Rafferty - The Ark
Gerry Rafferty - Clear Day
Gerry Rafferty - Don't Give Up On Me
Gerry Rafferty - The Girl's Got No Confidence
Gerry Rafferty - It's Gonna Be A Long Night
Gerry Rafferty - Late Again
Gerry Rafferty - Why Won't You Talk To Me
Gerry Rafferty - Wrong Thinking
Bonnie Raitt - Cool Cool Water
Bonnie Raitt - Longing In Their Hearts
Bonnie Raitt - Louise
Bonnie Raitt - No Gettin' Over You
Bonnie Raitt - Your Sweet and Shining Eyes
Amy Ray - Johnny Rotten
Amy Ray - Let it Ring
Reckless Kelly - One False Move
Reckless Kelly - Ragged As The Road
Reckless Kelly - Wicked Twisted Road
R.E.M - Hairshirt
R.E.M - Losing My Religion
R.E.M - Mandolin Strum
R.E.M - Man On The Moon
R.E.M - Monty Got A Raw Deal
R.E.M. - Wrong Child
R.E.M. - You Are Everything
Chris Robinson - Barefoot By The Cherry Tree
Jerry Rockwell & Niles Hokkanen - Blues In D
The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl
The Rolling Stones - Love In Vain
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou
Linda Ronstadt - Dreams Of The San Joaquin
Linda Ronstadt - Give Me A Reason
Arlen Roth - Paradise Blues
Rush - Half the World (mandola)
Seal and Crofts - Diamond Girl
Seal and Crofts - Ridin' Thumb
Seal and Crofts - Summer Breeze
Seal and Crofts - We May Never Pass This Way Again
Charlie Sexton - Probably Saved My Life
Shakira - Gypsy
Michele Shocked - The L&M don't stop here anymore
Michele Shocked - Memories Of East Texas
Sinnerboy - Goin' To My Hometown
The Smiths-Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Sons of Sylvia - 50 Ways
Soundgarden - Ty Cobb
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
Split Enz - Maybe
Split Enz - Matinee Idyll
Split Enz - Sweet Talking Spoon
Split Enz - Titus
Bruce Springteen - Glory Days
Bruce Springteen - Incident on 57th Street
Bruce Springteen - Into The Fire
Bruce Springteen - Maria's Bed
Ringo Starr - Sunshine Life For Me
Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith
Steeleye Span - Cam Ye O'er Frae France
Steeleye Span - Gower Wassail
Steeleye Span - Lovely On The Water
Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning
Steeleye Span - Spotted Cow
Al Stewart - Road to Moscow
Rod Stewart - Farewell
Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
Rod Stewart - Leave Virginia Alone
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
Rod Stewart - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man
Sting - All This Time
Sting - Soul Cake
Styx - Boat On The River
Dave Swarbrick - Arthur McBride/Snug In A Blanket
Dave Swarbrick - Grey Daylight/The Hawk/The Ten Pound Fiddle
Dave Swarbrick - Hullichans'/Chorus Jig
Dave Swarbrick - It Suits Me Well
Dave Swarbrick - Jamaica/With All My Heart
Dave Swarbrick - Lift The Lid And Listen
Dave Swarbrick - Once I Loved A Maiden Fair
Dave Swarbrick - The Rakes of Sollohad
Dave Swarbrick - Sean O'Dwyer Of The Glen/The Hag With The Money/Sleepy Maggie
Dave Swarbrick - Sir Charles Coote/ Smiths
Dave Swarbrick - Lady In The Boat/Rosin The Bow/Timour The Tarter
Dave Swarbrick - Wat Ye Wha I Met The Streen/The Ribbons of the Redheaded Girl/Ril Gan Ainm
Dave Swarbrick - When The Battle Is Over
Dave Swarbrick - The White Cockade/Doc Boyd's Jig/Durham Rangers
Swingers - True Or False
Tea Party - Shadow On The Mountain Side
Tea Party - Sister Awake
Richard Thompson - Boomtown
Richard Thompson - Business on You
Richard Thompson - Fully Qualified To Be Your Man
Richard Thompson - The Guernsey Kitchen Porter
Richard Thompson - Harry's Theme
Richard Thompson - Keep Your Distance
Richard Thompson - The Little Beggar Girl
Richard Thompson - Missie How You Let Me Down
Richard Thompson - One Door Opens
Richard Thompson - Outside Of The Inside
Richard Thompson - The Poor Boy Is Taken Away
Richard Thompson - Put Your Trust In Me
Richard Thompson - Rockin' In Rhythm
Richard Thompson - Roll Up
Richard Thompson - Sights And Sounds of London Town
Richard Thompson - Smiffey's Glass Eye
Richard Thompson - Watching the Dark Knife-Edge
Richard Thompson - When I Get To The Border
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Annie (ukulele?)
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - April Fool
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Nowhere to Run (ukulele?)
The Tragically Hip - Thompson Girl
The Traveling Wilburys - If You Belonged To Me
U2 - White As Snow
The Ukranians - Pretty Vacant
Eddie Vedder - Rise
Suzanne Vega - Last Year's Troubles
Suzanne Vega - (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May
Butch Walker - Bodegas and Blood
Butch Walker - The Closest Thing to You I'm Gonna Find
Butch Walker - Dublin Crow
Butch Walker - Going Back/Going Home
Butch Walker - Synthesizers (banjolin)
Butch Walker - That Side of You
Butch Walker - The 3 Kids In Brooklyn
Wally - Sunday Walking Lady
The Waterboys - Crown
The Waterboys - Falls On London
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys - Further Up, Further In
The Waterboys - How Long Will I Love You
The Waterboys - In Search Of The Rose
The Waterboys - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
The Waterboys - Song From The End Of The World
The Waterboys - We Are Jonah
Weezer - Hold On
The White Stripes - Little Ghost
Widespread Panic - Pickin' Up The Pieces
Wilco - Blue Eyed Soul
Jesse Winchester - Yankee Lady
Johnny Winter - Bad Luck And Trouble
Johnny Winter - I'm Not Sure
Johnny Winter - Too Much Seconal
Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again
Woods Band - As I Roved Out (mandola)
Woods Band - Noisey Johnny (mandola)
Yes - In The Presence Of
Yes - Wonderous Stories
Frank Zappa - We Are Not Alone

Bubbling Under

These bands have been mentioned but not specific songs by them. A few from a few of these have shown up, but surely there are more from them.

Balkan Beatbox
Blackmore's Night
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Dando Shaft
Richard Digance
Dropkick Murphys
Five Hand Reel
FM
Gallagher and Lyle
Hedgehog Pie
Bert Jansch
JSD Band
The Long Ryders
McGuinness-Flint
John Mellencamp
Nash The Slash
Plainsong
Jimmy Ryan
Seals & Crofts
The Tossers
Whippersnapper (Dave Swarbrick)
The Wild Seeds

[journeybear]

Maybe this is a bit of unfinished business I needed to get done before year end, maybe it’s a Christmas present to those interested (there are 12 days of Christmas, after all - or by my reckoning, 13, if you count Epiphany on January 6 ... but I digress), maybe I went to sleep too early last night and woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep so I needed some mundane task to lull me back to sleep, which didn’t work because I got too involved with it ... maybe ...

Anyway, I took the time to roll in songs mentioned since the last time I collated this. I did what I could, but I found a lot of suggestions of bands or albums, which I cannot do much with. For this to work, please offer contributions, not commentary. I mean, comments are all good and well, and yes, it’s good to know so and so did such and such (so grateful to learn of Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance, for instance), but in order to be included in this list what is needed is the band/artist name and the song name, nothing more. Not even the mandolinist’s name - well, OK, but these songs will be listed by the band’s name. Also, please take the time to read the list - what the hey, why not? - or at least do a search (CTL + F) to see if a song is missing before offering an entry. I’ll work them in, in due time, but it would be helpful to follow the existing format, which is

Band Name - Song Title

separated by hyphen, not colon, and first letter in caps, even small words. If contributing more than one song from a band/artist, please alphabetize by song title.

At the end of the list are a bunch of bands which have been mentioned previously and are either underrepresented or not at all. As much as I would like to see this list be as complete as possible, I am not going to devote a lot of time to research. A lot of what is here already is based on unverified contributions; I am taking people at their word, for the most part. Ths is a labor of love, not library science. If you have an album or access to info that will give us track by track contributions, please share this. I can’t do much with album info. I may at some point throw some in, if there is mandolin on each track, but for now I am holding to the premise that this is a list of rock songs with mandolin on them.

Finally, please don’t quote the entire list in a response! This is taking up enough room on the server as it is, and has to be broken into two parts. There are over 400 songs so far - which is really pretty nice to see. It’s a good start.

Thank you, and I apologize if my tone is a bit short. Maybe I am getting a bit sleepy after all ... but I have said this in a few ways before, and it would be nice if people would see how these suggestions would make this project easier.

Enjoy! Discuss! Share!


THE LIST SO FAR (PART 1)

Aerosmith - Crazy
Aerosmith - Kings And Queens
Afro Celt Sound System - When You’re Falling
Alpha Band - Keep It In The Family
Alpha Band - Mighty Man
Alpha Band - Rich Man
Alpha Band - Not Everything Has a Price
The Band - Atlantic City
The Band - Evangeline
The Band - The Last Waltz
The Band - Rag Mama Rag
The Band – Rockin’ Chair
The Band - When I Paint My Masterpiece
Big Country - The Seer
The Black Crowes - Share The Ride
The Blasters - Little Honey
Blind Melon - Walk
Blood Oranges - Bridges
Blood Oranges - Halfway 'Round the World
Blood Oranges - Handle Breaks
Blood Oranges - Hinges
Blood Oranges - Sally
Blood Oranges - This Old Town
Blood Oranges - Titanic
Blue Rodeo - Cynthia
Blue Rodeo - English Bay
Blue Rodeo - Hasn't Hit Me Yet
Blue Rodeo - Up On That Cloud
Deni Bonet - Die For Me
Bonzo Dog Band - Bad Blood
Brass Monkey - Da Floo'er O' Taft /The Lass O' Paties Mill
Brass Monkey - George's Son
Brass Monkey - Jolly Bold Robber
Brass Monkey - The Maid And The Palmer
Brass Monkey - The Rose Lawn Quadrille
Brass Monkey - Waterman's Hornpipe
Broken Records - Lies
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
Kate Bush - Kashka From Baghdad
Kate Bush - Oh To Be In Love
Kate Bush - Reaching Out
Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa
Kate Bush - Wow
Butterfield Blues Band - In My Own Dream
The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider
The Byrds - Draft Morning
The Byrds - Path Of Victory
The Byrds - Truck Stop Girl
The Byrds - You All Look Alike
Can - Laugh Till You Cry Live Till You Die
Captain Beefheart - Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Carbon Leaf - American Tale
Carbon Leaf - Crazy Train
Carbon Leaf - Home
Carbon Leaf - Ordinary Eyes
Carbon Leaf - To My Soul
Martin Carthy - The Friar In The Well
Martin Carthy - Jolly Tinker
Martin Carthy - Old Horse
Carthy/Swarbrick - And A Begging I Will Go
Carthy/Swarbrick - Banks of The Sweet Primroses
Carthy/Swarbrick - Boomfield Hill
Carthy/Swarbrick - Bows of London
Carthy/Swarbrick - Brand Band Music
Carthy/Swarbrick - The Irish Washerwoman/The Ash Plant
Carthy/Swarbrick - Lovely Joan
Carthy/Swarbrick - The New Mown Hay
Carthy/Swarbrick - Poor Murdered Woman
Carthy/Swarbrick - The Ride In The Creel
Carthy/Swarbrick - The Sheep Stealer
Carthy/Swarbrick - Two Butchers
Carthy/Swarbrick - The Wife Of the Soldier
Eric Clapton - Lonely Stranger
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Ry Cooder - Ax Sweet Mama
Ry Cooder - Billy The Kid
Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story
Ry Cooder - Bourgeois Blues
Ry Cooder - Chloe
Ry Cooder - Denomination Blues
Ry Cooder - Down In Missisissppi
Ry Cooder - Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin' Good
Ry Cooder - Goin To Brownsville
Ry Cooder - Hey Porter
Ry Cooder - I Got Mine
Ry Cooder - It's All Over Now
Ry Cooder - Look At Granny
Ry Cooder - Money Honey
Ry Cooder - President Kennedy
Ry Cooder - Viola Lee Blues
Elvis Costello - Little Palaces
Elvis Costello - They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
Cowboy Junkies - 200 More Miles
Cowboy Junkies '- Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
Cowboy Junkies - Escape Is So Simple
Cowboy Junkies - Mariner's Song
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel
Cowboy Junkies - Powderfinger
Cowboy Junkies - Rock And Bird
Cowboy Junkies - The Wrong Piano
Crash Test Dummies - I Don't Care That You Don't Mind
Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider
Roger Daltrey - Without Your Love
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meet Body
The Doors - Runnin' Blue
Dr. John - Danse Fambeaux
Dr. John - Danse Kolinda Ba - Doom
Dr. John - I Walk On Gilded Splinters
Dr. John - Loup Garoo
Dropkick Murphys – Black Velvet Band
Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
The Eagles - Hollywood Waltz
The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
The Eagles - Midnight Flyer
The Eagles - Saturday Night
The Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
Steve Earle - Billy and Bonnie
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Steve Earle - Dominick Street
Steve Earle - Paddy on the Beat
Steve Earle - Sara's Angel
Eva Trout - Marshlands of Revival
Fairport Convention - Angel Delight
Fairport Convention - Babbacombe Lee
Fairport Convention - Big William
Fairport Convention - Bonny Black Hare
Fairport Convention - Brilliancy Medley/Cherokee Shuffle
Fairport Convention - Cuckoo's Nest/Hardiman The Fiddler/ Papa Stoor
Fairport Convention - Flatback Caper
Fairport Convention - John Lee
Fairport Convention - Million Dollar Bash
Fairport Convention - Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
Fairport Convention - Rosie Peggy's Pub
Fairport Convention - Sailor's Alphabet
Fairport Convention - St. Ninian's Isle/Trumpet Hornpipe
Fairport Convention - Sickness & Diseases
Fairport Convention - Sir William Gower
Fairport Convention - Little Did I Think
Fairport Convention - Wake Up John
Fairport Convention - White Dress
Flatirons - Three Crosses
FM - Phasors On Stun
Sue Foley - Give It To Me
Rory Gallagher - Brute Force and Ignorance
Rory Gallagher - Going To My Home Town
Rory Gallagher - I'm Not Surprised
Rory Gallagher - Leaving Town Blues
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
Grateful Dead – Ripple
Hall & Oates - Better Watch Your Back
Hall & Oates - Lady Rain
George Harrison - Gone Troppo
Green Day - Misery
Mark Heard - Satellite Sky
Heart - Half Moon
Heart - Say Hello
Heart - Sylvan Song/Dream Of The Archer
Levon Helm - Deep Ellum Blues
Levon Helm - Tennessee Jed
Levon Helm - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
John Hiatt - Before I Go
John Hiatt - Cry Love
John Hiatt - Lift Every Stone
John Hiatt - Only the Song Remains
John Hiatt - Trudy and Dave
Dan Hicks - O'Reilly At the Bar
Dan Hicks – Traffic Jam
Dan Hicks - Where's The Money?
Higher Ground - Alpaca Sweater
Higher Ground - Comin' Home
Higher Ground - On Your Own
Higher Ground - Quicksand
Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man
Niles Hokkanen - Dawn on Pasquisett/Long March To Melbourne
Niles Hokkanen - Farther Along
Niles Hokkanen - Fire
Niles Hokkanen - Honky Tonk Blues
Niles Hokkanen - I'm Ready
Niles Hokkanen - Little Sadie Revised/Velisurmaaja
Niles Hokkanen - Low Down Blues
Niles Hokkanen - Summertime Blues
Niles Hokkanen - Tyrant's Jig
Billy Holmes - Anybody`s Guess
Billy Holmes - Vigilantes of Love
The Hooters - And We Danced
The Hooters - Day By Day
The Hooters - Karla With a K
The Hooters - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
The Hooters - Mr. Tambourine Man
The Hooters - Where Do The Chidren Go
Hootie and the Blowfish - Alright
Hootie and the Blowfish - Autumn Jones
Hootie and the Blowfish - The Earth Stopped Cold at Dawn
Hootie and the Blowfish - Honeyscrew
Hootie and the Blowfish - Innocence
Hootie and the Blowfish - Leaving
Hootie and the Blowfish - Running From an Angel
Hootie and the Blowfish - Tears Fall Down
Hootie and the Blowfish - Tootie
Hootie and the Blowfish - Waltz Into Me
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain
Hothouse Flowers - Don't Go
Hothouse Flowers - Forgiven
Hothouse Flowers - Saved
Alan Hull - Money Game
Alan Hull - United States Of Mind
Indigo Girls - Ghost of the Gang
Indigo Girls - Ozoline

[Barry Wilson]

Thanks again for doing this Mr Rolling Stone. I love going through this list listening (as I am now) to hear mandolin, though I find it hard to hear mando in some of the selections

[journeybear]

Not digging the reference, nor the reason or purpose. This is a straight alpha list, not a ranking, of rock songs which include mandolin in some capacity. Quality control is pretty lax, actually, and I am going on faith most of the time. I don’t think I have heard even half of these, and if people say there’s mandolin on these, that’s good enough for me. Still, some of these are fascinating, and a real kick to hear unexpected uses by hardly mando-centric bands like Green Day and Styx and others. And as I said, as many entries as there are here, we have only scratched the surface. Mandolin has clearly shown up a LOT more than on the few same handful of overly requested songs that are all too familiar to us but are all that the vast majority can name. That right there is a good reason for doing this.

[Ed Goist]

JB; What a great resource!
Thanks so much for pulling all this together. That was a lot of work, and it's much appreciated!
To provide some update on Cowboy Junkies, Jeff Bird's e-mando can be heard on every song (in the left channel...how cool is that!) of the new release "Sing in My Meadow".
The songs are:
Continental Drift
It's Heavy down Here
3rd Crusade
Late Night Radio
Sing In My Meadow
Hunted
A Bride's Price
I Move On
(Oh, and the last three tracks feature some classic e-mando wailing! )

[journeybear]

I had a feeling that might be the case. Same with Seals & Crofts and a few others that use mandolin a lot. I mean, if you’re a duo and one of you plays mandolin as your main instrument, there will be a lot of songs in your repertoire that belong on this list. I just don’t have the resources (ie, CDs) to include more. Another band that deserves more mentions is The Ragbirds, who were here for two days, and there was a lot of mandolin in their sets, especially early. But I wasn’t about to shell out $50 for their four latest releases. It was tempting though; they’re a lot of fun.

[Barry Wilson]

I joke about the rolling stone part because you were playing the part in the top 100 guitar player list hehe. had me wondering until you admitted you weren't later...

[journeybear]

Oh! I see. I mean, I do now, but I had to go back to that thread and see what happened. You see, when Jann Wenner spoke through me, it was like a demonic possession - his consciousness superseded mine and I had no recollection of the event. The horror! I can only imagine what he did with my body while he was in control of my mind. So far I have not noticed any ill aftereffects, but I can’t stop worrying that some unforeseen consequence will rear its ugly head without warning. I wonder if I let myself in for this when I got my lifetime subscription. Should have read all of the fine print ...

[Jim MacDaniel]

A standout Steve Earle mando song to add: Galway Girl

[journeybear]

Yessir! There are plenty that have been overlooked, and that’s one, for sure.

Somehow this got me thinking about going through the Women With Mandolins thread for candidates for this list. Then i got to thinking about what makes a song rock rather than country ... For instance the Sons Of Sylvia song is clearly rock, from a band that is usually considered country. On the other hand, someone mentioned Dierks Bentley’s version of U2's song "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" by Dierks Bentley with The Punch Brothers & Del McCoury. This is a bluegrass version of a rock song, so doesn't belong, to my thinking. While I would like Sam Bush on the list, I think it would have to be on songs that were clearly rock. Even what he has done with Emmy Lou Harris tends toward country or bluegrass - though I haven't listened to any of that in a while, and could be wrong. Also, it seems a shame Grisman can't be on here more, but his music is so acoustically oriented I don't see how it can be included.

Of course, all of this includes grey areas in definitions, and lines move all the time.

[mandocrucian]

This same thread, Page 2 (Jan 2006)

[journeybear]

Yes? Do you mean posts #36-39? I think I rolled all of that into this alpha list. If I missed anything let me know. It's a little hard to read, lacking punctuation.

Keep in mind, people, I am doing this only by default. Well, OK, devotion, too. But I haven't seen anyone else step up in this capacity, and it needed to be done, so I did what I did. Anyone who wants to take over, feel free to do so. I would be happy to do no more than edit and organize. And I think my days of sifting through long lists for non-duplicated entries are over. I believe it is the responsibility of contributors to this list to make sure their entries are not duplications. We all have other things to do. I could use some practice, and I think there's a football game on. I can combine those two activities, but not this as well. And I'd like to get something done before nap time ...