David Layman Singer Guitarist from Marietta, GA

David Layman is an Atlanta-based acoustic musician, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. With deep musical ties and over four decades performing across the Southeast — including 6 years as a Tenor with The Atlanta Opera — David is an accomplished vocalist and regular solo acoustic performer at venues and events across metro Atlanta, north Georgia, and the Georgia coast. For more information and the complete 300+ song repertoire, visit davidlaymanmusic.com. David's extensive repertoire spans decades and genres — from classic rock, melodic pop, and Americana to contemporary acoustic hits. While bridging a wide range of music, his sweet spot is 60s, 70s, 80s hits and crowd favorites. Most recently, David attended Andrea Stolpe's Songwriting Retreat in Nashville, working alongside multi-platinum songwriters and fellow musicians to continue developing his craft as an original artist. His journey as a rock musician started back in the heyday of Big Hair and MTV, fronting 80s cover bands along the Georgia and Florida coast, and later in Athens, Georgia, with an original, but ill-timed Power Pop band ala The Beatles, Squeeze, and XTC (alas, in the early '90s just as grunge exploded!). As a Tenor with The Atlanta Opera in the early 2000s, David performed operas in four languages (Italian, French, German, & Russian) in productions staged at The Fox Theater, the Atlanta Civic Center, and the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. After his tenure with the opera, he began playing acoustic covers at local bars, restaurants, private parties, and community and corporate events. As an aspiring songwriter, David's original music focuses on combining strong vocals, warm harmonies, and a power pop/rock sensibility – crafted with a song-first approach aimed toward genuine emotional resonance and real human connection.

• Cuts Like a Knife | Bryan Adams
• Sweet Melissa | Allman Brothers
• I Need You | America
• Sister Golden Hair | America
• Brian Wilson | Barenaked Ladies
• Old Apartment | Barenaked Ladies
• It's All Been Done | Barenaked Ladies
• Don't Worry Baby | Beach Boys
• Let it Be | The Beatles
• Hide Your Love Away | The Beatles
• Hey Jude | The Beatles
• Ob-la-di Ob-la-da | The Beatles
• I Saw Her Standing There | The Beatles
• Fooled Around and Fell in Love | Elvin Bishop
• Living on a Prayer | Bon Jovi
• Wanted Dead or Alive | Bon Jovi
• Guitar Man | Bread
• I'd Like to Make it With You | Bread
• Margaritaville | Jimmy Buffet
• Changes in latitudes | Jimmy Buffet
• Come Monday | Jimmy Buffett
• A Pirate Looks at 40 | Jimmy Buffet
• Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton
• Bring it on home to me | Sam Cooke
• Cupid | Sam Cooke
• You Send Me | Sam Cooke
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain | CCR
• Bad Moon Rising | CCR
• Lodi | CCR
• Operator | Jim Croce
• I've Got a Name | Jim Croce
• Southern Cross | Crosby, Stills and Nash
• Teach Your Children | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Ordinary World | Duran Duran
• Like a Rolling Stone | Bob Dylan
• My Back Pages | The Byrds (Bob Dylan)
• To Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan
• Positively 4th Street | Bob Dylan
• Tequila Sunrise | The Eagles
• Peaceful Easy Feeling | The Eagles
• Lyin' Eyes | The Eagles
• Desperado | The Eagles
• Sunshine | Jonathan Edwards
• Let it Be Me | Everly Brothers
• When Will I Be Loved | Everly Brothers
• Wake Up Little Susie | Everly Brothers
• Superman | Five For Fighting
• 100 Years | Five For Fighting
• Times like these | Foo Fighters
• Everlong | Foo Fighters
• Baby I Love Your Way | Peter Frampton
• Baby One More Time | Fountains of Wayne
• Babylon | David Gray
• Remember When | Alan Jackson
• Pop a top | Alan Jackson
• Piano Man | Billy Joel
• Chevy Van | Sammy Johns
• Rocket Man | Elton John
• Daniel | Elton John
• Candle In The Wind | Elton John
• Levon | Elton John
• Into Your Arms | Lemonheads
• Sundown | Gordon Lightfoot
• Cool Change | Little River Band
• Two Tickets to Paradise | Eddie Money
• Melt With You | Modern English
• Crazy Love | Van Morrison
• It Stoned Me | Van Morrison
• Into the Mystic | Van Morrison
• Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison
• Garden Party | Rick Nelson
• Mr. Bojangles | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Paradise | John Prine
• Free Fallin' | Tom Petty
• Mary Jane's Last Dance | Tom Petty
• Won't Back Down | Tom Petty
• Amie | Pure Prairie League
• Suspicious Minds | Elvis Presley
• Blue Moon of Kentucky | Elvis Presley
• That's Alright Mama | Elvis Presley
• Blue Suede Shoes | Elvis Presley
• The Ghost in You | Psychedelic Furs
• 500 Miles | The Proclaimers
• Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding
• The Gambler | Kenny Rogers
• Slip Sliding Away | Paul Simon
• Loves Me Like a Rock | Paul Simon
• You Can't Always Get What You Want | Rolling Stones
• Wild Horses | Rolling Stones
• Hungry Heart | Bruce Springsteen
• Mrs. Robinson | Simon & Garfunkel
• America | Simon & Garfunkel
• Against The Wind | Bob Seger
• Stuck in the Middle With You | Stealers Wheel
• Space Cowboy | Steve Miller Band
• Since I Don't Have You | The Skyliners
• Wild World | Cat Stevens
• Father and Son | Cat Stevens
• Carolina in my Mind | James Taylor
• Fire and Rain | James Taylor
• Sweet Baby James | James Taylor
• If you could only see | Tonic
• All I Want | Toad the Wet Sprocket
• Calling All Angels | Train
• Drops Of Jupiter | Train
• One | U2
• All I Want Is You | U2
• Missing You | John Waite
• When You Say Nothing At All | Keith Whitley/Alison Krauss
• Ain't No Sunshine | Bill Withers
• Ain't That Lonely Yet | Dwight Yoakam
• Harvest Moon | Neil Young
• Long May You Run | Neil Young