Favourite Driving Music.

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 4 Feb 2010 5:25 pm

What do you listen to whilst driving? Living in a small country, I don't worry about long distance music. I do like to listen to the radio, though and this tune is all over the airwaves at the moment. A kinda' Ska style tune.

bounce up and down, here.

Tom Robinson's anthem, `2,4,6,8, Motorway` is another of my faves.

What say ye?

Arch.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 4 Feb 2010 7:05 pm

My day consists of driving somewhere between 100 and 200 miles a day and listening to a room full of lawyers argue for 8 hours. So to and especially from work I've been listening of late to Dexter Gordon's "Ballads" and Chet Baker's "Songs for Lovers".

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 4 Feb 2010 7:14 pm

Rush, Sean and Mark.

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 4 Feb 2010 7:30 pm

I've been listening to Southern Culture on the Skids lately and The White Stripes.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 4 Feb 2010 8:48 pm

Stephen Silver wrote:I've been listening to Southern Culture on the Skids lately....

"House of Bamboo"!!!!!! I love that girls voice on that song. I have never heard anything else by them. I need to make me a CD of just that song and put the CD player on infinite repeat! "Number 54......"

edit...checked them out on Youtube...Totally infatuated with Mary Huff!

If it is late at night and I am driving back from a gig and getting tired, I have put on a Tower of Power CD and rolled down all the windows and turned it up on stun and made it home!

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 4 Feb 2010 9:40 pm

Classical music while I'm driving

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 4 Feb 2010 10:30 pm

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 5 Feb 2010 9:20 am

The Smithereens. A CD I bought years ago, and never really had listened to until now.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 5 Feb 2010 10:12 am

A Portrait of Merle Haggard/ Bruce Springsteen Born to Run.

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 5 Feb 2010 11:14 am

My current favorite, Jimmy Rivers and Vance Terry, Brisbain Bop.

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 5 Feb 2010 5:00 pm

Jacques Loussier is also nice for a long, traffic free drive.

Bachrch.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 5 Feb 2010 6:38 pm

Gabor Szabo with Chico Hamilton, Sidney Bechet, Los Shakers), Tony Rice .... and that's just the last few days.

Wally Taylor · Post by **Wally Taylor** » 5 Feb 2010 8:32 pm

Nuttin but Bobbe Seymour in my cd whenever I drive anywhere. Nice soothing, relaxing steel as only he can play it.

Wally

Chuck Huffman · Post by **Chuck Huffman** » 5 Feb 2010 10:06 pm

"Steel On Wheels", By Mike Headrick. Great tunes for driving!

Another favorite,"Ridin' The Frets", By Norm Hamlet. You can lay some miles down in no time.

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 6 Feb 2010 10:25 am

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"

Same here.

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 6 Feb 2010 2:23 pm

It depends on my mood and the weather. I like easy listening music for the most part.

For steel guitar music I have one Buddy Emmons CD, three Billy Cooper CDs (I love the incredible smoothness of his picking and bar work) and one Gary Carpenter CD.

I have a Paul Potts CD called Passions. Great voice for someone who has never had voice training.

I also have a satellite radio on which I listen to Road House or the Book channel.

Sometimes however, I just like quiet.

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 6 Feb 2010 4:27 pm

I've had a copy of MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS since it came out on LP on ECM many years ago. I love listening to it if I'm home and it's a rainy/snowy day. I don't have it on CD, but I can't exactly say I'd want to listen to it while driving, as I feel I'd miss the subtleties, and that's really what the piece seems to be about. Driving home for 40 minutes from one band's rehearsal at night, I like to listen to things like Heather Leigh Murray/Charalambides, Chas Smith(!), Daniel Lanois, Carla Bozulich or similar experimental CDs, that tend to keep me riveted to the music. And Gustav Leonhardt's CDs on ALPHA are balm for the soul. Still, some of the music I love just doesn't lend itself well to accompany a drive. But with Bob's and Chas' recommendations on Reich, I may have to reconsider.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 6 Feb 2010 5:41 pm

Anything but steel - that's usually all I'll hear when I get where I'm going!

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 6 Feb 2010 11:00 pm

TWIT podcasts on iPod. Leo Laporte.
http://www.techguylabs.com

Jason Hull · Post by **Jason Hull** » 7 Feb 2010 2:38 am

Spoon live at Stubb's. You can download three shows for $15, from their website. Awesome!

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 7 Feb 2010 8:53 am

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 7 Feb 2010 11:31 am

When I'm ridin' in the car, I listen to Brad Paisley-5th Gear-Randle Currie on steel, Dierks Bentley-Modern Day Drifter-Gary Morse on steel, Gary Allan-Smoke Rings In The Dark-Dan Dugmore on steel, Joey & Rory-Life Of A Song-Mike Johnson on steel/Rob Ickes on dobro, and Jamey Johnson-That Lonesome Song-"Cowboy" Eddie Long on steel, and Livin', Lovin' Losin';Songs of the Louvin Brothers-Mike Johnson and Bruce Bouton on steel, and Randy Kohrs on dobro.

Brett

Tom Wolverton · Post by **Tom Wolverton** » 10 Feb 2010 7:35 am

current music: all Amber Digby CDs, both Mountain Soul CDs by Patty Loveless and The Given Note by Liam O'Flynn

podcasts: Car Talk and This American Life.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 11 Feb 2010 2:06 am

At the moment, my favorite CD is a new version of "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Jim Hall. This is the 3rd time he has recorded the piece. I haven;t hear the 2nd, but this is a much bolder reading that his first one, and at the same time follows the structure of the piece much more closely.

In my opinion, this is a true masterpiece, and possibly Jim Hall's finest recording ever.

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 11 Feb 2010 12:01 pm

Hi Cal,

I couldn't help but notice, your iTunes library includes Justin Trevino's "Genatalia of a Fool". I love that song, as well as the whole album it comes from. I don't see an album title listed on your library. In case you don't know, and for the benefit of other Forumites who aren't familiar with it, the song comes from the album A Stagecoach Named Desire by Austin's own Cornell Hurd Band. Over the years, several Forum members have been members of Cornell's great band, including Herb Steiner, Bobby 'Scrap Iron' Snell (I believe one or both played steel on this album) and Howard Kalish on fiddle. Another favorite of mine from the album is "Tell Your Shrink I Said 'Thanks For Nothing'". Cornell Hurd, the 'David Letterman' of country.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

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