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This annual dixieland gig is coming up whereby (based on past experience playing this job) if we play mostly gospel tunes In dixieland style, the tip bucket will overflow.

I believe we're only playing two sets.

So far I have come up with...

- I'll Fly Away
- Further Along
- This Little Light of Mine
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- Just a Little While to Stay Here

You needn't offer the obvious ones like Saints, Riverside, Closer Walk, Sweet Chariot and those sorts of things, but more along the lines of those on the list, begun above.

Thanks!

10 or 15 more would be good.
...hopefully stuff that at least one or two of us in the band have heard before.
Nothing new or newish, pls.

yeah...
Untold mountains of filthy lucre - resorting to emotionalism - is what I'm talking about here.

"Do Lord" and "I'll Fly Away" are a great pairing. (DL/IFA/DL)

I always thought "Come though font of every blessing" would make a great Dixieland chart.

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho -a classic

Precious Lord Take my hand

When the Roll is Called up Yonder

Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer
Jesus on the Mainline
John the Revelator
I Shall Not Be Moved
Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus
Down by the Riverside
Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer

Go tell it on the mountain
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Amen
Every time I feel the spirit

More spirituals than gospel, maybe?

Go Down Moses

Could "Get Back" by the Beatles be done in Dixieland style?

Schlepporello wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 6:54 am Could "Get Back" by the Beatles be done in Dixieland style?

...which reminds me about the one time at a church gig where we played Britney Spears' "Sometimes" in a disguised version during the collect...

"Oops!...I did it again" should work quite well in Dixieland style, I would think?

A bunch of these are great suggestions.

I've done Count Your Blessings in church several times, both in a Dixie group and as a tuba solo. Always well received.
Tim

A Mighty Fortress

Mark wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 11:38 amA Mighty Fortress

I could imagine it being done. People are really accustomed to those femate...and (to keep it recognizable) the fermate would probably need to be addressed - somehow - in duple meter.

Have a little talk with jesus
Old time religion
Down to the river to pray
What a friend we have in J
Sweet hour of prayer
What wondrous love is this
Old rugged cross
Rock of ages
When I survey the wondrous cross
In the sweet by and by

If you could branch out to gospel quartet/barbershop/Bluegrass, the possibilities are endless

Just as a couple examples. Not that I've spent any time thinking about it...

I bet you guys could dixie up Amazing Grace, especially if you have a clarinetist who can wiggle finger over the melody. Bonus points if you have dueling bass saxes ala Uptown Lowdown, you might even make enough to buy a bass sax to play it.

Maybe a little stretch, but here's some ideas.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq ... YhB40ks3nX

Bob Kolada wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 4:02 pm I bet you guys could dixie up Amazing Grace, especially if you have a clarinetist who can wiggle finger over the melody. Bonus points if you have dueling bass saxes ala Uptown Lowdown, you might even make enough to buy a bass sax to play it.

Maybe a little stretch, but here's some ideas.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq ... YhB40ks3nX

I own a bass sax.

bloke wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 4:39 pmI own a bass sax.

Worst pick-up line of all time…

the elephant wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 5:16 pm

bloke wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 4:39 pmI own a bass sax.

Worst pick-up line of all time…

I was gonna ask if he was if he was bragging or complaining, but I opted to play nice.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken……have done that tune New Orleans style with brass quintet. Pretty sure it would sound great Dixieland.

non-funny comment:

Another person here helped me get it, and - in exchange - I gave them something that they really wanted along with some a couple throwing in a couple of extras their way.

This one has never been refinished and it's brass.
(Some people know that I don't really care for silver plated stuff.)
Mechanically it's like new. There are two or three dents left in it that I need to take out, and then I'm going to meet the challenge of carefully polishing it and lacquering it. Mr bloke is going to put it back together. I'm going to have some fun with it, and either keep it or sell it. (Included is it's OEM mouthpiece in perfect condition; those sell for several hundred dollars all by themselves.)
It's a Buescher. I played it before we took the old pads off.
Intonation as a walk in the park. It's going to be magnificent.

I am always impressed by the repair talents of all members of this board.

bloke wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 11:50 am

Mark wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 11:38 amA Mighty Fortress

I could imagine it being done. People are really accustomed to those femate...and (to keep it recognizable) the fermate would probably need to be addressed - somehow - in duple meter.

Maybe in a stop-time blues style...