The Illbillys: The Master Song List (MSL)!
The Illbillys play songs. In fact, one might say that playing songs is the specific reason that they exist as an entity! As such, they have played many songs over the 20+ years of their existence. On this page is a fairly complete list of all the songs the Illbillys have played!
Should there be a specific song that you wish to be played at your event that is not on this list, by all means request it of us! Do us a solid and request it ASAP, however, so that we might learn it properly and not be forced to blunder through it.

Please note that screaming the name of a song into the face of an Illbilly while he is already playing a song will generally not result in your request being played.

Act Naturally – Buck Owens
Ain't No Rest For the Wicked – Cage the Elephant
Alabama Whisky Bar – The Doors
A Little Less Conversation – Elvis Presley
A Lonely Place – The Smithereens
American Girl – Tom Petty
And She Was – Talking Heads
Any Major Dude - Steely Dan
Back in the USSR – The Beatles
Bad Things – Jace Everett
Bare Necessities – from The Jungle Book
Be Bop a Lula – Gene Vincent
Birdie on the Mountain – Vince Guaralidi/Grateful Dead
  (Combo of "Little Birdie" and "Fire on the Mountain")
Blue Christmas – Elvis the P
Blue Skies – Irving Berlin
The Bug - Dire Straits
Bungle in the Jungle – Jethro Tull
Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
Bus Stop/Things We Said Today – The Hollies/The Beatles
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Caravan – Duke Ellington
Carolina In My Mind – James Taylor
Cigarette – The Clarks
Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young
Cold Shot – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Come and Bring Roses – Nirvana/Smithereens
  (medley of “Come As You Are” and “Blood and Roses”)
Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
Country Roads – John Denver
Crash – The Primitives
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Crazy Love – Van Morrison
Cross-Eyed Mary – Jethro Tull
Daddy Was a Preacher But Mama Was a Go-Go Girl
  – Southern Culture On the Skids
Dead Flowers – The Rolling Stones
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is – Chicago
Don't Do Me Like That – Tom Petty
Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time – Mickey Gilley
Don’t Wanna Fight – Alabama Shakes
Driven To Tears – The Police
Driving My Life Away – Eddie Rabbitt
Eastbound and Down – Jerry Reed
El Paso – Marty Robbins
Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears For Fears
Exes & Oh's – Elle King
Family Tradition – Hank Williams Jr.
Feel a Whole Lot Better – The Byrds
Fire Escape - Fastball
Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
Folsom Fire Wizard – Johnny Cash/Bruce Springsteen/The Who
  (Medley of "Folsom Prison Blues," "I'm On Fire" and "Pinball Wizard")
Fool in the Rain – Led Zeppelin
For Your Love – The Yardbirds
Get Rhythm – Johnny Cash
Ghost Riders in the Sky – Stan Jones
Gimme Some Money – Spinal Tap
Girl U Want – Devo
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Gold On the Ceiling - The Black Keys
Gone, Gone, Gone - The Everly Brothers
Hello, Darlin' – Conway Twitty
Here Comes Your Man – The Pixies
Hey Bulldog – The Beatles
Holy Roller Novocain – Kings of Leon
Hot Dog – Led Zeppelin
House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Bob Dylan
I’ll Cry Instead – The Beatles
I’m a Boy – The Who
I Fought to Breathe – The Clash/Pink Floyd
  ("I Fought the Law," Clash-style, plus "Breathe")
I Never Picked Cotton – Johnny Cash
Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
I Put a Spell On You – Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Istanbul – They Might Be Giants
I Wish – Stevie Wonder
It’s a Shame About Ray – The Lemonheads
I Wanna Be Like You – Louie Prima
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Jambalaya – Hank Williams Sr.
Jane is Magic – Jane’s Addiction/The Police
  (Medley of "Jane Says" and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic")
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Je t'Adore - The Figgs
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Kaw-Liga – Hank Williams Sr.
King of the Mountain – Southern Culture On the Skids
King of the Road – Roger Miller
Kiss - Prince
Lady Madonna – The Beatles
Laid – James
Land Down Under – Men at Work
Last Night – The Strokes
Last Time – Rolling Stones
Late in the Evening – Paul Simon
Let's Knock Together – Canned Heat/ Dave Edmunds
  (Medley of "Let's Work Together" and "I Hear You Knockin'")
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson - Alison Krauss/Robert Plant
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Lightning Bolt - Jake Bug
Listen to Her Heart – Tom Petty
Little Birdie – Vince Guaraldi
Little Miss Prissy - The Stray Cats
Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Little Sister - Elvis Presley
Living in the Past – Jethro Tull
Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull
Lonesome Whistle – Hank Williams Sr.
Loser – Beck
Love Struck Baby - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Mack the Knife – Louis Armstrong (among others)
Maggie’s Farm – Bob Dylan
Mama Tried – Merle Haggard
Man of Constant Sorrow – Soggy Bottom Boys
Man Smart, Woman Smarter – Harry Belafonte
Marie's the Name of His Latest Flame – Elvis of the P
Mary’s Lamb – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Maybe I'm Amazed – Paul McCartney
Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard – Paul Simon
Me & My Uncle – The Grateful Dead
Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby
Miss You – The Rolling Stones
Mr. Spaceman – The Byrds
Molly’s Chambers – Kings of Leon
Monkey Man – Rolling Stones
Moonage Daydream – David Bowie
Moondance – Van Morrison
Mule Train – Frankie Laine
New New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead
Ninteenth Nervous Breakdown – Rolling Stones
Oh Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
Old Brown/Black – The Beatles/Steely Dan
  (Medley of "Old Brown Shoe" and "Black Friday")
One More Saturday Night - Grateful Dead
Overkill – Men at Work
Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones
Paranoid Eleanor – Black Sabbath/The Beatles
  (Medley of “Paranoid” and “Eleanor Rigby”)
Peace Frog - The Doors
People Are Strange - The Doors
Pink Cadillac - Bruce Springsteen
Poor Heart - Phish
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
There is no Q. Be serious.
Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Ripple - The Grateful Dead
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Peggy Lee
Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones
Scarlet Begonias - The Grateful Dead
Scooby Doo – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade – Steve Miller
Sesame Street – Bert, Ernie, Oscar, Grover, etc.
Shapes of Things – The Yardbirds
Six Days on the Road – Flying Burrito Brothers
Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
Slow Down – The Beatles
Sorry – The Easybeats
Space Oddity – David Bowie
Spider-Man – The Ramones
Starman – David Bowie
Steppin’ Stone – The Monkees
Street Fightin' Man – The Rolling Stones
Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealer Wheels
Subterranean Mama – Bob Dylan/Elvis Presley
  (Medley of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "That's All Right Mama")
Suffragette City – David Bowie
Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot
Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks
Superman – The Clique (better known as the cover by REM)
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Take Five – Dave Brubeck
Take This Job and Shove It – Johnny Paycheck
Time & Time Again – The Smithereens
Tuesday Afternoon – The Moody Blues
Two Tickets to Paradise – Eddie Money
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
US Blues - The Grateful Dead
Use Me - Bill Withers
Voodoo Cadillac – Southern Culture On the Skids
Wagon Wheel – Darius Rucker
Waitin' on the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago – ZZ Top
Walking After Midnight – Patsy Cline
Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
Where Is My Mind - The Pixies
White Lightnin' – George Jones
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Wild Horses – Rolling Stones
The Wonder of You – Elvis von Presley
Of course there is no X.
You Can't Always Get a Winding Road – Rolling Stones/Sheryl Crow
  (A funky amalgamation of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (filtered through Aretha Franklin) and "Every Day is a Winding Road")
You May Be Right – Billy Joel
You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry
Your Cheatin' Heart – Hank Williams Sr.
You're So Vain – Carly Simon
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away – The Beatles
You Win Again - Hank Williams Sr.
There is also no Z. But, I made the graphic already. So.
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