Shanks has played guitar with some of the top musicians in the country including country artist Mando Saenz, the late blues pianist Pinetop Perkins and Brazilian jazz group JSN Quinteto. His philosophy on music is to keep things upbeat, play for the audience and always throw in a heavy dose of funky grooves.
Bring Michael’s acoustic guitar stylings to your next event!
SONG LIST
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Afro Blue – Mongo Santamaria
All of Me – Billie Holiday
All Blues – Miles Davis
Amarillo By Morning – George Strait
Autumn Leaves – Nat King Cole
Basket Case – Green Day
Besame Mucho – Andrea Boccelli
Bennie and the Jets – Elton John
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
Black Magic Woman – Santana
Black Orpheus – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Blue Skies – Irving Berlin
Blue Bossa – Joe Henderson
Cantaloupe Island – Herbie Hancock
Chameleon – Herbie Hancock
Chan Chan – Buena Vista Social Club
Cold Shot – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Come Together – The Beatles
Corcovado – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Daytripper – The Beatles
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
El Cuarto de Tula – Buena Vista Social Club
Evil Ways – Santana
Feelin’ Alright – Joe Cocker
Fever – Peggy Lee
Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Freddie Freeloader – Miles Davis
Get Off of My Girl – Rolling Stones
Get Lucky – Pharrell
Get Back – The Beatles
Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston
Happy – Pharrell
Hello – Adele
Honky Tonk Women – Rolling Stones
How Insensitive – Frank Sinatra
Hotel California – The Eagles
House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
I Got Stripes – Johhny Cash
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
Killing Me Softly – Roberta Flack
Let it Be – The Beatles
Light My Fire – The Doors
Light Your Candle – Otis Redding
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
Love Me Two Times – The Doors
Many Rivers to Cross – Jimmy Cliff
Margaritaville – Jimi Buffet
Melt With You – Modern English
Minor Swing – Django Reinhardt
My Babe – Little Walter
My Girl – The Temptaions
Neon Moon – Brooks and Dunne
No Good – Amy Winehouse
Octopus Garden – The Beatles
Oye Como Va – Santana
Pride and Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Promised Land – Chuck Berry
Quizas, Quizas, Quizas – Nat King Cole
Red House – Jimi Hendrix
Riders on the Storm – the Doors
Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
Santaria – Sublime
Seminole Wind – John Anderson
Silver Wings – Merle Haggard
Space Captain – Joe Cocker
St. James Infirmary – Louis Armstrong
Stand By Me – Ben E. King
Stars on the Water – George Strait
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Suspicious Minds – Elvis
Sweet Chile of Mine – Guns and Roses
Satisfaction – Rolling Stones
So What – Miles Davis
Stir It Up – Bob Marley
Sweet Home Chicago – Blues Brothers
Sweet Virginia – Rolling Stones
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson
The Girl From Ipanema – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Thousand Miles from Nowhere – Dwight Yoakum
Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix
Use Me – Bill Withers
Watermelon Man – Herbie Hancock
With or Without You – U2
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
What I Got – Sublime
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zepplin
Wagon Wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show
Yesterday – The Beatles
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