The quest for popular acoustic guitar songs begins when you find that you have purchased some experience on your guitar, and you have realized that your fave songs don’t fill as much time as you believed they might. So as an acoustic guitar player you are going to want a repertoire.

When I prefer to think of popular acoustic songs, I won’t help but think of Peter, Paul And Mary. No, not the biblical ones, the folks group from the sixties. At that point in America and Britain there had been an interest on the part of the more youthful generation in the folk music of their respective countries. One of the few groups to cash in on the people boom to any great extent was Peter, Paul And Mary.

Peter, Paul And Mary helped Bob Dylan become the legend that he’s by making his songs accessible to the wider music-loving public. Those who didnot find a nasal whine romantic or, indeed interesting in any way. So here’s a course in getting together a repertoire of popular acoustic guitar songs : your presentation is supreme.

Bob Dylan wrote the tracks. He had the feelings that connected with a generation of irritated and discontented youngsters. But Peter, Paul And Mary brought the composer and the audience together. So a popular song need not be one that folk have been told about before. It could be a song that you MAKE popular. Perhaps not to a worldwide audience, but your own group of friends is a start.

The Doors recorded a song called Light My Fire. It definitely was a loud driving rock song. It was re-worked by Jose Feliciano as a Latin ballad and reached number three on the pop charts. To several music fans Jose Feliciano’s version of Light My Fire is the classic one. Now THAT is a popular song. Eric Clapton’s acoustic version of Layla is another example of apopular acoustic guitar song that started life as something totally different.

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