We offer three hours of original and cover material that is musical and fun to listen to. We have three part harmonies, great musical chops and leads.
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Gig Length: 30 - 180 minutes
Languages: American Sign Language, English
We are an Americana band that has tight arrangements and great harmonies. Our starts and stops are rehearsed and our choreography on stage is on point. We can be a trio and up to a six piece band. We have at least three hours of music. We are not too loud and look to be the perfect "background" by adjusting our sound down, or we can be a central focus in a concert setting. We can talk about the songs and share stories with an audience and "entertain" with facts, stories and color about music and our own experiences with music.
Manitou Strings is an eclectic and entertaining mix of Americana, roots, and rock 'n roll music. Acoustic instruments and three part harmonies make for a beautiful sound that drives and inspires you to dance...or makes you cry and grab another whiskey. Our covers range from Lucinda Williams, the Grateful Dead, the Eagles and originals speak about life, friendship and old mining towns in Colorado.
We have our own technical sound that we travel with, but the beauty of acoustic instruments is that we can play around a campfire, outdoors, or in a church with little to no equipment and still bring the sound and entertainment.
Song List 01-2023
In parenthesis is our version, not necessarily the songwriter
Across the Great Divide (E) (The Band)
Ain’t No Use in Trying Anymore (G,F,C) (Trampled by Turtles)
Altitude…? (E) (Original)
Angel From Montgomery (D) (Bonnie Raitt)
Atlantic City (A) (Levon Helm)
Banks of the Ohio (A) (traditional)
Big Old Jet Airliner (C) (Steve Miller Band)
Blues on the Ceiling (G) (Fred Neil)
The Bottle Let Me Down (G) (Merle Haggard)
Breakdown (A) (Tom Petty)
Breakfast in Hell (Am) (Slade Cleaves)
Brown Eyed Women (E) (Grateful Dead)
By and By (C) (Caamp)
Can't Let Go (G) (Lucinda Williams)
Carmelita (C) Joy (G) (slower than Linda Ronstadt)
Carps Lament (C) (Original)
Cash on the Barrelhead (C) (Louvin Bros.)
Come On Up To the House (A) (Sarah Jarosz)
Concrete and Barbed Wire (G) (Lucinda Williams)
Dark Hollow (A) (Grateful Dead)
Deep Elum Blues (E) (Grateful Dead)
Didn't I (C) (Original)
Doctor My Eyes (F) (Jackson Browne)
Don’t Do Me Like That (G) (Tom Petty)
Dust in a Baggie (G) (Billy Strings)
Every Day is a Winding Road (A) (Sheryl Crow)
Every Girl (G) (Turnpike Troubadours)
Fast Train to Georgia (A) (Billy Joe Shaver)
Four (D) (Miles Davis)
Friend of the Devil (G) (Jerry Garcia)
Gin, Smoke and Lies (G) (Turnpike Troudadours)
Give it Up or Let Me Go (A) (Bonnie Raitt)
Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad (E) (The Dead)
Grievous Angel (G) (Parsons/EmmyLou)
Harvest Moon (Dm) (Comatose Bros/AJ Lee)
How Mountain Girls Can Love (G) (Flatt and Scruggs)
I Am A Pilgrim (D) (Gram Parsons)
I’m Not Your Toy (D, F#, E, B) (La Roux)
I Got Loaded (E) (The Wood Bros.)
I Shall Be Released (G) (Bob Dylan, The Band)
If It Hadn’t Been for Love (Am) (Steel Drivers)
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Em) (Bob Dylan)
I’ll Fly Away (D) (traditional)
It’s Not You. It’s Me (D) (Little Willies)
Lost Highway (D) (Hank Williams)
Louise (A) (Bonnie Raitt)
Long Way to Go (C, Am, F) (Railroad Earth)
Mama Tried (D) Merle Haggard)
Me And My Uncle (Em) (The Dead)
Midnight Moonlight (G) Peter Rowan)
Minor Swing (Am) (Django)
Miss Ohio (G) (Band of Heathens)
Nashville Skyline (C) Instrumental
Never Make it Home (Am) (Split Lip Rayfield)
Old 55 (G) (The Eagles)
Old Home Place (G) (Traditional)
Old Number Seven (Bm) (Devil Makes Three)
Ooo La La (D) (Faces)
Ophelia (C) (The Band)
Pride and Joy (E) (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
Red Clay Halo (E) (Gillian Welch)
Rider (D) (The Dead)
Setting Me Up (G)) Spencer
Shady Grove (Dm) (The Dead)
Six Pack To Go (D) (Leon Russel)
Sleep with One Eye Open (G) (Dolly Parton)
Southern Flavor (E) (Bill Monroe)
Still House (D) (Gillian Welch)
Stringtown (E) (Original)
The End is not in Sight (G) (Amazing Rhythm Aces)
Til You Come By Here (A) (Fruition)
Time To Talk to Joseph (Am) (Darrel Scott)
Train to Cry (G) (Bob Dylan)
Truckin’ (E) (Grateful Dead)
Valerie (D) (Amy Winehouse)
Walk Beside Me (D) (Tim O’Brien and Darrel Scott)
Walls of Time (A) (Peter Rowan)
Wayfaring Stranger (Am) (Traditional, but with a little swing)
The Weight (G) (The Band)
What’s Up (D,E,G,D) (4 Non Blondes)
When Will I Be Loved (D) (Linda Ronstadt)
Where the Wild River Rolls (A) (Hot Rize)
While I’m Waiting Here (E) (Billy Strings)
White Freightliner (C) (Townes Van Zandt)
Why Don’t You Love Me? (G) (Hank Williams)
Wild Horses (G) (Peter Rowan)
Willin’ (G) (Little Feat)
You Built a Stone Wall (Gary Stewart)
You’re Still On My Mind (G)
Young Tom Rose () (Ripe)
| Spencer Wren | Writer, Arranger, Lead singer and lead guitar |
| Joy Maples | Lead singer, harmony singer, upright bass |
| Bobby Wolf | Lead guitar, harmony singer |
Our roots are in the traditional music that came over from England and Ireland in the ballads and songs of the people who settled in Appalachia. No one dug deeper into the traditional catalog than the Grateful Dead. And although they didn't have a great reputation at the time among the scholars of the old music, they were very much rooted in the traditional songs. We are also influenced by many singer songwriters including The Louvin Brothers, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, moving into contemporary writers Tom Waits, Norman Blake, Fred Neil, and Lucinda Williams and even moving further into the current song stylings of Fruition, Trampled by Turtles, and Caamp. We love music and find inspiration in young and old, stories of woe as well as hard-driving anthems. We are an eclectic, genre-hopping, fun band.
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