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Topic: What is your late night relaxtion music. |
Les Anderson
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 10:19 am |
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At our weekly rehearsal last night we had a very interesting discussion about the music each of us listen to to relax in the later hours of the evening. I quickly realized that all of our band members listened to music that they seldom play themselves and seldom listened to instrumentals on the instruments that they play.
Being that 95% of the posters on this forum are steel guitarists, do you guys listen to steel guitar music for late night relaxation to slow your mind down: or, are you like me and listen to a wide variance of music and not so much steel guitar music.
I like a myriad of music at night but mostly instrumentals such as six string guitar, pan flute, piano, of course some steel guitar and some vocals.
Here are my night time relaxers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bJyMJskFg(stardust)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Y1eT_w4acurl(Shania Twain, Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lTXhXTasA
(CesarEspinoza: panflute.....Unchained Melody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84r0RBqUCSs (Bill Sutton's, Moonlight Seranade)
Also, if I want to listen to someone who no one would have suspected would have any musical talent but blew the world away, this is my emotional fix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 10:38 am
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| An iPod playlist that's heavy on Satie, Debussy, and Ravel. There's some Jerry Byrd in there too, though. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 10:39 am
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Tomita's "The Snowflakes Are Dancing" 
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 10:48 am
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To help me relax, I usually listen to Alison Krauss and Union Station's "New Favorite" cd featuring Jerry Douglas, my friend Michelle Poe's cd "Just One of The Boys"-it's got a lot of steel by Bruce Bouton and I think Paul Franklin played steel on it too. There are a lot more cds I listen to to help me relax. Another cd I listen to is the "View From The Top" soundtrack, because my friend Katie Cook does a version of the 80s song "Time After Time".
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Ronnie Boettcher
From:
Brunswick Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 11:04 am
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When it is not classic country, it is traditional bluegrass. I wind down with any of the above.
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 11:33 am
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| Stu Schulman wrote: |
| Tomita's "The Snowflakes Are Dancing" |
That's Debussy, one of my favorites. You should hear Leigh Howard Stevens do it on marimba. Dreamy. |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 11:34 am
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| Dish Network has a Night Time for baby's music channel that calms me down pretty quick. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 11:38 am
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| Lately, I've been listening to Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, "The Odyssey Of Funk & Popular Music." His version of "In The Still Of The Night" is incredible. I first heard it whilst driving, and had to pull over so I wouldn't cause a wrecK |
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Barry Gaskell
From:
Cheshire, UK
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 12:34 pm
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Mozart or Haydn string quintets or Monteverdi. Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs. Motets or melodic lieder. absolute heaven.
Barry |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 12:56 pm
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b0b,I would love to hear that...I have most of Tomita's records,I used to be a synth guy,Stu 
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 7:18 pm Late night...but not to wind down
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I'm at work late at night and to attack the tedium (and...it...is...overwhelming...and...soul-destroying) I go running to the shelter of my iPod shuffle which is a 250-song distillation of my 40gB iPod and my very favorite Americana/folk/bluegrass/classic country/and a few 60s rock/pop songs. At least what I've been able to put onto iTunes (the conversion process is tedium in itself.) A rundown battery or a shuffle left in the shuffle at home is a small disaster, precipitating existential panic.
I was recently aggrieved by the merging of XM/Sirius channels and the loss of XM's Vox! which, late at night on the drive home, tended toward middle-ages choral selections rather than their daytime fare of opera (which I loathe bitterly).
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 8:23 pm
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Charlie Parker,Wes Montgomery,or George Benson,When I'm in the mood for steel playing,Mr.Seymore. DYKBC.
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Dennis Graves
From:
Maryville, Tennessee
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 8:45 pm
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| Willie's Place |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 9:12 pm
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Now you're gittin' down to a person's soul. As I am dropping off to sleep, here are some things I love to hear:
Sound Track From Twin Peaks
The Best of Friends, John Lee Hooker
George Jones and/or Tammy Wynette, almost anything
Brian Blade Fellowship, Perceptual (with Dave Easley on pedal steel)
Ali Farka Toure
Angelique Kidjo, Djin Djin
Kenny Garrett, Beyond the Wall
The Very Best of John Coltrane
Any collection of tenor sax ballads
Mozart, Masonic Funeral Music
Most of these will also be great for certain presleep bedtime activities, if you are lucky enough to not be alone.
Last edited by David Doggett on 6 Feb 2009 11:46 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Tay Joslin
From:
Clarksvillle, Tennessee USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 9:04 am Late Night
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My wife and I enjoy Dean Martin.
He is still the "King of Cool"!
Also, because we live near Memphis,
we love Booker T. and the MGs with
a little bit of Otis Redding tossed
in for flavor. My wife just melts
inside when she hears the song
"Try A Little Tenderness"!
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Walter Killam
From:
Nebraska, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 9:39 am King's X
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Gretchen goes to Nebraska, or Out of the Silent Planet
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 11:59 am
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 12:10 pm
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Law & Order! Love that music!  |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 4:27 pm
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Jeez Stu, do your kids even know what that black disk actually is?   |
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Darrel Muzney
From:
South Sioux City, Nebraska, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 7:05 pm late night relaxtion music
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I received my copy of Bill Stafford CD, Unforgettable Melodies a bout a week ago. This is the CD I listen to before turning in at night. In my recliner with my ear phones. Some times I don't even make it to the bed. Great CD.
Later Darrel
SO.Sioux City
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Darrel Muzney
From:
South Sioux City, Nebraska, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 7:08 pm late night relaxtion music
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I received my copy of Bill Stafford CD, Unforgettable Melodies a bout a week ago. This is the CD I listen to before turning in at night. In my recliner with my ear phones. Some times I don't even make it to the bed. Great CD.
Later Darrel
SO.Sioux City
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 7:27 pm
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Les,No kids that I know of...But ya never know?When I was a teen I played Otis Redding a lot and one day my Mom came in my room and told me that "Try a Little Tenderness" was an old Frank Sinatra song,I told her that she always said that and she went into a closet filled with records and broke this one out,I never questioned her again,I've won money betting about this song.
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 1:38 am
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Clemens Non Papa´s "Pastores Quidnam Vidistis" ;
recorded by The Tallis Scholars ; it´s some of the
greatest choral music ever composed.McUtsi |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 11:03 am
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| Stu Schulman wrote: |
| When I was a teen I played Otis Redding a lot and one day my Mom came in my room and told me that "Try a Little Tenderness" was an old Frank Sinatra song |
OK, but somebody should have told her that long before that it was an old Bing Crosby song, and Ray Noble before that.
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"Try a Little Tenderness" is a love song written by "Irving King" (James Campbell and Reginald Connelly) and Harry M. Woods, and recorded initially on December 8, 1932 by the Ray Noble Orchestra (with vocals by Val Rosing) followed by both Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby in 1933. ...
In one of the more unusual versions of this song, Jack Webb spoke the lyrics over an instrumental background |
I wonder if modern technology could produce a "duet" with Jack Webb and Ruth Etting. |
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Tay Joslin
From:
Clarksvillle, Tennessee USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 11:24 am
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Well, well... I had no idea that "Try
A Little Tenderness" was cut before
Otis Redding did it! Sure am glad
that I came to class today!
I really appreciate you folks taking
the time to educate others! THANKS!
-Tater
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