Dave fronts his Electric Soul & Funky Blues quartet Lovewagon, singing and playing drums, around the Seattle-Tacoma region.
Dave also performs sings and plays jazz, with a combination of a bassist, pianist or guitarist, and a saxophonist. Singing drummer vocal jazz with an extemporaneous emphasis. Billed as the Dave Christianson Three or Four, performing at venues throughout the Puget Sound area. 
Check Out Dave's Soul, Blues, Funk, & Jazz Song List:
All That You Dream C Little Feat Are You Lonely For Me Baby G Al Green version Ask Me No Questions A B B King Black Cat Bone C blues standard Bodhisattva E Steely Dan Born Under A Bad Sign Cm Albert King Buddy Buddy Friend Am Charlie Musslewhite Can't Stand The Rain D Ann Peebles Dark End Of The Street G Dan Penn Demolition Man A The Police Domino G Van Morrison Don't Change Horses In The Middle Of A Stream E Johnny “Guitar” Watson Don't Keep Me Wonderin' G Allman Brothers Down In The Flood A Bob Dylan Downtown Gm Tom Waits Drift Away C Dobie Gray Driving Wheel D B B King Everytime You Go Away D Hall & Oates Fat Man In The Bathtub G Little Feat Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home Gm Ann Peebles Francine C Z Z Top Givin' It Up For Your Love C Delbert McClinton Going Down Slow C blues standard-Bobby Bland version Gravedigger Am Dave Matthews-Willie Nelson version Hard Way To Go C Tbone Walker-Taj Mahal version Help The Poor Dm B B King-Robben Ford version Hey Pocky Away C The Meters Holiday D Booker T Jones If You Live Bb Mose Allison If You Want Me To Stay D Sly Stone Into The Mystic D Van Morrison Jealous Guy G John Lennon Kansas City Limit G Jack Mack King harvest C The Band Knock On Wood D Eddie Floyd L A Woman A The Doors Let's Get It On Eb Marvin Gaye Living For The City Dm Stevie Wonder Love Letter C Bonnie Hayes Love TKO E Teddy Pendergrass Missing You E John Waite My Old School G Steely Dan Next Time You See Me Bb blues standard Nutbush City Limits E Ike & Tina Turner Ophelia C The Band Out The Front Door A Bonnie Raitt Paying For It Now Em Robert Cray People Get Ready G Curtis Mayfield Respect Yourself B Staple Singers Searching For A Heart G Warren Zevon Sexual Healing C Marvin Gaye Sledgehammer Cm Peter Gabriel Start It Up E Robben Ford Take Me To The River D Al Green Teach Me How To Stay G Stephen Bruton Telephone Song C Stevie Ray Vaughn Tell Me I'm Your Man Em Robben Ford Tennessee Stud F My wild arrangement of the Jimmy Driftwood yarn. The Forecast Calls For Pain Em Robert Cray The Jealous Kind G Bobby Charles Tip Of My Tongue D John Hiatt To Sir With Love F Al Green version Tobacco Road C Dave's arrangement of the standard Trouble Man Bbm Marvin Gaye Trudy On The Telephone G Charlie Daniels Tupelo Honey G Van Morrison Up From The Skies Bb Jimi Hendriz Voices On The Wind G Little Feat Walking Blues C Robert Johnson-Sex Machine vamp Wild About You G Robben Ford Wild Night G Van Morrison Yellow Moon Gm Neville Brothers You Upset Me G B B King Dave's Actively Performed Original Songs: Acts Of Faith C Ain't No Time Like The First Time Bm Back To The Joint G Banged Up Sandwich Guy Tango Dm Better Not Be Buggin' The Bishop D Body & Soul Together Am Change G Chicken Store Bbm Chiseler C Down To My Last 200 K G Dumpster Fire Bbm Easy Chief Bb Ezzard Teets G Fast Love Fm Federal Way C Fireworks By The Side Of The Road E Hangin' With Mister T Fm Her Big Mouth A Hoodoo Network Am Hotel Motel Time G How Do You Do It? C I Can't Swim E I'm The Trouble You Couldn't Take Back G Inside Man Bbm Let Me Move You Bbm Mercury Am My Fall From Grace G Nazi Spies in The Hill Country Gm Pimps 'N Hoes E Pussy Bitches Am Seven Ways Cm 'Splode Package C Sweet Talk D Tavern Tan E The Ache C The Troubleshooter G Thimbs C This All The Time I Have For You Eb This House Ain't Home No More G This Is Your Brain With The Blues Gm Totem Pole G Trying Make Small Time Look Big D Unfriend Me D Vantage Highway G Walking On Guadalupe A Walking With The Saints E/Bb Worried Gm Dave's Soul, Blues, Rock, & Funk Standards That He Can Sing At Any Time: 1 9 9 9 C Prince 634-5789 Bb/B Wilson Picket A Change Is Gonna Come F Sam Cooke Angel From Montgomery G John Prine Back In The USSR A Beatles Betty Lou's Getting' Out Tonight E Bob Segar Bitch E Rolling Stones Born In Chicago A Blues Standard Brown Sugar G Rolling Stones Can't Get Enough Of Your Love C Bad Company Can't Get Next To You C Temps Cold Sweat C James Brown Crosscut Saw G Blues Standard Devil In The Blue Dress C Mitch Ryder Dock Of The Bay F Otis Redding Downhome Blues Bb Blues Standard Dreams To Remember G Otis Redding Early In The Morning E BB King Evenflow D Pearl Jam Every Breath You Take G Police Every Day I Have The Blues Bb BB King Everyday People G Sly Stone Fire E Jimi Hendrix For You My Love A Lou Rawls Georgia On My Mind F Ray Charles Get Ready A Temps Gimme All Yer Lovin'/Sharp Dressed Man C ZZ Top Gimme Some Lovin E Steve Winwood Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town C Ray Charles Hold On I'm Comin' C Sam & Dave Honky Tonk Women G Rolling Stones Hoochie Coochie Man G Muddy Waters I Feel Good D James Brown I Feel So Bad C Chuck Willis I Heard It Through The Grapevine Am Marvin Gaye I, Who Have Nothing Dm Ben E King Inner City Blues Am Marvin Gaye Just A Little Bit A Freddie King Just My Imagination C Temps Katmandu E Bob Segar Land Of 1000 Dances D Wilson Pickett Lawyers Guns & Money G Warren Zevon Let's Get It On Eb Marvin Gaye Let's Stay Together D Al Green Little Wing E Jimi Hendrix Louisiana G Randy Newman Love & Happiness Bn Al Green Mercury Blues E The Police Midnight Hour E Wilson Picket Missing You G John Waite Muddy Water G Lou Rawls Mustang Sally C Wilson Picket My Baby's Gone D Los Lobos Nadine Bb Chuck Berry Never Make Your Move Too Soon Bb BB King/Ernestine Anderson Next To You A The Police Night By Night A Steely Dan Oh What A Thrill A Chuck Berry One Headlight D Wallflowers Out Of Sight D James Brown Papa Was A Rollin'Stone Cm Temps Pretty Woman B Roy Orbison Promised Land B Chuck Berry Promised Land A Chuck Berry Razor Boy G Steely Dan Reach Out Bm Four Tops Reelin' In The Years A Steely Dan Respect G Otis Redding Rip It Up Reddy Teddy B Little Richard Rock Bottom B Elvin Bishop Rocky Mountain Way E Joe Walsh Route 66 G Bobby Troup Runaway Bm Bonnie Raitt Satisfaction E Rolling Stones She Caught The Katy G Taj Mahal Some Kinda Wonderful C Grand Funk Soul Man D Sam & Dave Superstition E Stevie Wonder Sweet Home Chicago Bb Blues Standard Synchronicity II G Police Take The Money And Run G Steve Miller The Joker G Steve Miller The Walls Come Down A The Call Them Changes E Buddy Miles This Mascarade C George Benson Try A Little Tenderness C Otis Redding Twistin' The Night Away Bb Sam Cooke When A Man Loves A Woman A Percy Sledge Whiskey Drinking Woman Bb blues standard Woman Across the River C Freddie King Wonderful One Bb Marvin Gaye Wrapped Around Your Finger Em Police Dave's Active Vocal Jazz List: A Remark You Made Ab Joe Zawinul with Kurt Elling's lyric Afro Blue Fm Mongo Santamaria, my arrangement All Blues G Miles standard with Oscar Brown Jr's lyric All Of Me C Standard, Sinatra Alone Together Dm Standard, Joe Williams, medium swing April In Paris Bb Cover of Kurt Elling's arrangement; Sinatra Ballad Of The Sad Young Men Eb Standard, Roberta Flack, Kurt Elling Blame It On My Youth Eb Standard, Kurt Elling; Sinatra Change G Original rootsy rocker by my pal Frank Johnson Dumpster Fire Bbm My original tune Easy Chief Bb My original tune Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home C Cover of Ann Peebles' soul number. Georgia On My Mind F Hoagy Carmichael The Good Life Ab Frank Sinatra Holiday D An arrangement of the old soul standard by Booker T Jones Hotel Motel Time G My original tune I Love Paris C Cover of Peter Cincotti's arrangement of the standard; Sinatra I Love You F Cole Porter I've Got You Under My Skin Eb Standard, Sinatra In A Mellow Tone Ab Standard, easy swing Inside Man Bbm My original tune Jealous Guy G John Lennon tune Joy Spring F Clifford Brown standard Just My Imagination C Temps Lady's A Tramp C Rogers & Hart Let Me Move You Bbm My original tune Living For The City Dm Stevie Wonder Love TKO D Cover Of Teddy Pendergrass' tune. Luck Be A Lady D Standard, Sinatra Lush Life Db Billy Strayhorn/Johnny Hartman Magnets Bb original Moanin' F The low down blues shuffle of Bobby Timmons done by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers My One And Only Love C Standard, Johnny Hartman, light samba Nature Boy Fm Standard, Kurt Elling, Nat Cole Nothing Like You C Bob Dorough's tune recorded with Miles in the 60's. Out Of Nowhere G Standard, my arrangement People Get Ready G Curtis Mayfield's gospel standard Please Don't Go G Be-bop treatment of Stevie Wonder's plea. Poinciana G Standard tune Razor Boy G My arrangement of the Steely Dan bossa. Red Clay Cm Freddie Hubbard-Mark Murphy Sexual Healing C Cover of the Marvin Gaye's sweaty testimonial. She's Leaving Home G Vocal version with McCoy Tyner's changes. Solitude Eb Standard, my arrangement Speedball Bb Lee Morgan's hard bop number with Dave's original lyric. Straight Life Bb Freddie Hubbard-Dave's original lyric Sweet Talk Dm Original romantic discourse over a 'Breezin' vamp. The Good Life Ab Sinatra's standard performance. The Nearness of You C Standard, Johnny Hartman; Sinatra The Summer Knows Fm Standard,swing feel over ballad The Very Thought Of You F Standard, Kurt Elling; Sinatra The Way You Look Tonight Eb Standard, Sinatra Tobacco Road C My fast bop arrangement of the Lou Rawls testimonial. Trouble Man Bbm My arrangement of Marvin Gaye's movie anthem. Try A Little Tenderness C Otis Redding Trying To Make Small Time Look Big D Original tune Tupelo Honey G Cover of Van Morrison's gospel number. Valdez In The Country G Donny Hathaway's tune with Dave's original lyric Worried Gm Original bossa nova, representing the paranoid. Wrapped Around Your Finger Em The Police tune as a bossa. |
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