Some real fun songs to play with great basslines and are easy to learn,
Delbert McClinton- Shakey Ground
Wilson Pickett- Mustang Sally
ABB-One Way Out
 
They always get a great response from the crowd too.
 
OO

OH yes_ Mustang Sally is a good one!  
 
OO you got some good ones there!

Who Do You Love ---Quicksilver Messenger Service
 
Yeah! All 24.5 minutes of it!
Fresh Air would be good, too.
 
And on the subject of Waylon, just about anything off Honky Tonk Heroes (which are all, of course, actually Billy Joe Shaver songs).
 
And I've been listening to Pure Prairie League a lot lately - Woman off the proverbial eponymous debut is great.
 
And, if you're playing bars, just about anything off the first 3 albums by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen should go over well.
 
Peter (who's starting way too many sentences with and tonight)
 
(Message edited by cozmik_cowboy on June 25, 2009)

Thanks to everyone.  I appreciate all your comments.

...and don't forget 'Rawhide' if your ever stuck in the boonies with folks who like 'both' kinds of music...just make sure they have chicken wire fer the stage.

Here's our set list for a cancer benefit we're playing in a couple weeks:
 
Get Down Tonight
Dirty Little Secret
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Plush
The Middle
I Need to Know
Come As You Are
This Love
I Feel Good
White Rabbit
Somebody to Love
Tie Your Mother Down
Rock and Roll
 
plus a few originals tossed in...
Guitar/bass/drums plus a female vocalist.
 
-bob

Try Walk Away by the James Gang. Great live song.

Interestingly, in 1988 REM released an album called .. Eponymous.

Here are some of my current faves...
 
The Linda Rondstat version of Willin' (although the Little Feat version is OK, too)
 
Deirks Bentley's Got a Lot to Leavin' Left to Do segues nicely into Are you sure Hank Done it This Way by Waylon Jennings
 
Castanets by Reckless Kelly
 
Jealous Again by the Black Crowes
 
Cuts Like a Knife by Bryan Adams
 
Copperhead Road by Steve Earle
 
And lastly The Boys from Oklahoma by Cross Canadian Ragweed
 
Mr. Panzer, Flax, Keavin, et al., if you aren't familiar with that last one I must insist that you have a listen immediately.

Wow a lot of great songs listed here.  I'll add Hot Smoke and Sassafras by Bubble Puppy

You know one I've never got to do but always wanted to,
Last Child by Aerosmith. Great bassline and groove in that song.  
 
Tom Hamilton has always been underated as a bassist to me. He has some great lines and grooves.
 
OO

Charles:
 
Loved The Boys From Oklahoma.
 
By the way, I know the one limit placed on this request was No Freebird, but if you haven't heard The Toyes reggae version of Freebird, you're really missing out.  Hilarious AND it works! (The Toyes did the original Smoke Two Joints).
 
Bill, tgo

Gawd help you, but I have been down this road a few times.
 
Brown Eyed Girl, never fails to get them dancing
Brick House
Play that funky Music
Mustang Sally
 
There are top requested songs for DJ's listed by year on the net. You can't go wrong using those lists since that is your competition. Just pick songs from the top 150 or so that the crowd will dance to and you will have a band that is booked!
 
Avoid the temptation to play just songs the band really likes if you are going to play out. The top dance clubs will have several bands that rotate through and they will play 60 - 70% the same material. You can go and take notes.
 
Good Luck,
Dave

My band does a Blink 182-esque version of Any Day Now by Ronnie Milsap, and it really gets them jumping.  Cool, chromatic progressions (and written by Burt Bacharach to boot).

Alright Now - by Free...classic rock tune with nice bass part by Andy Fraser!
 
John.