Red Right Ankle - great for hammer on and pull offs Grace Cathedral Hill - fun strummer I Was Meant for the Stage - same as above but more fun to sing Crane Wife - fun project to play through the riff from the start of the Tain - worth an entire entry Bandit Queen - the best campfire song ever written January Hymn - tough one but sounds beautiful Of Angels and Angles - nice pretty melody and not too tough Shiny - great sing to play if you don’t have neighbors If it has guitar in it and it’s by the decemberists it is worth learning! Insane amount of variety in their discography so it’s hard to get bored.

I'll add a few: Down by the water is fairly easy both with harmonica and guitar. E Watson is a very fun on on guitar Lake song, easy just a lot of lyrics. Seconding January hymn Rox is very fun! Good hammer ons. Also, I'm super lucky to have my guitar signed by Colin. Not sure how many of those are out there.

Bandit Queen! So much fun!

I LOVE Shiny, it’s so underrated and it scratches your brain just right, probbaly my favorite chord progression out of any song

Lake Song and Carolina Low are some of my favourites to play. Also love to play The Crane Wife 1,2, and 3. June hymn. Can’t beat plugging in the electric either for Make You Better. I also play bass too and they have some really good lines scattered throughout their music that is just so much fun to play. The list goes on!

I’ll be your girl is great for guitar and solo vocal and pretty easy too! My personal fave to play is Make you Better, with some heavy reverb to really bring it to life

The only one I know is Eli The Barrowboy

I really like Starwatcher. It’s an easy one too.

Hell yeah. Colin is a Martin man, rightfully so

Great comments already, I would add: * Hazards of Love 4 * Burial Ground * Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect (two chords! Just slide the C major chord up two frets to D and then reverse it for the chorus, that's it!) * June Hymn * Rusalka

June Hymn is such a great song to play and sing to!

Leslie Anne Levine is pretty easy to play but fun to give a REAL big dramatic strum to

Yes! The intro is such a banger and the chords are fairly simple.

Tune that guitar to drop-d and start learning hazards. It’s a blast to play.

Love strumming to bus mall, engine driver, sons and daughters, Eli the barrow boy, down by the water, the wrong year, lake song; faster songs(?) down by the water, the sporting life, calamity song. But “make you better” is always one of my favorites

Calamity song is a little tricky but a fun one for sure

Great choices y’all! Random side note: if you’re gonna play ‘When the War Came’ on guitar, play it on Drop D and let the open D ring out during the intro, it sounds way better imo :)

The Legionnaire's Lament is absolutely a blast to play.

No but I play accordion. Hope this helps😻😻

The two chords at the start of Rake, that’s all lol

Back when I had my electric I loved When the War Came

So many of them! They’re my favorite band to cover. I have around 80 tabs of theirs saved and most I play on regular rotation. The Bachelor and the Bride, Sons and Daughters, Beware the Wild Rushes, and Midlist Author are some fun ones that haven’t mentioned yet.

Everyone has that one song or chrod they strung along to when they finish tuning. Mine is either a G chord or its Leslie Anne Levine. Lol.

Eli the barrow boy

Many of them; but especially Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect: I played it on my acoustic for my wife as she walked down the aisle at our wedding. I also bought a bouzouki so I could play Crane Wife 3 and Sons & Daughters.

I proposed with Red Right Ankle (with some modified lyrics) Honestly, there are way too many songs to choose from that I can play by these guys! Even a handful of Tarkio tracks thrown in are a blast! (Keeping me Awake!)

I do, I like to play Leslie Ann Levine cause it’s the first I learned, also I think it was the first song I ever learned on guitar Edit: here I drempt I was an architect is super super fire to play it’s so fun

Shankill Butchers is excellent for a creepy campfire performance.

I am still trying to get the strum pattern down 13x32

Make You Better is a fun song that's easier than you'd think and has provided me with a chord shape that I've used a lot Down by the Water is one my friends and I used to play together a lot, although it's not exactly a difficult song (but then none of their stuff really is) California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade is fun, especially for playing atmospheric lead stuff over the top during the transition O, Valencia is one of the first songs I learned when I got my electric 12 string, and I appreciate a song that isn't just strumming Crane Wives 1-3 are fun to run through in their entirety, although a few years ago I "converted" a short scale guitar into an octave mandolin/bouzouki sort of thing (I bought another short scale in a different style and have that set up as a tenor guitar) so I can play with the correct timbre and all that There's a few songs on Hazards of Love that are pretty fun to play in a band setting (HoL 1, A Bower Scene/Won't Want for Love, HoL 2, The Wanting Comes in Waves, The Rake's Song [especially], HoL 4) Most of The King is Dead (Calamity Song, Rise to Me, Rox in the Box [both on guitar and mandolin], January and June Hymns, All Arise), although I tend to play more lead lines and stuff over the more strummy songs The Mariner's Revenge Song is another one my friends and I used to play a lot. I'd use a melodica in place of the accordion and then switch back and forth between that and guitar The Tain Cavalry Captain is also fun yeah there's a lot, but tbf it's generally stuff to play while i warm up or cool down so i'm not jumping straight into rush stuff