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Topic: Good Driving Music as stress relief |
Lefty
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Grayson, Ga.
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Posted 25 Jun 2004 7:53 pm |
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I mean this in the sense of driving a car. I need good music to ease the stress of driving here in Atlanta.
Some of my favoites to calm the savage beast in me are as follows:
Mandy Barnett "I've got a right to cry"
Patsy Clines "Greatest Hits"
Nora Jones "Feels like Home"
The Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody"
Carla Banoff Ist album
I would appreciate reponse from others on others.
Thank You,
Lefty
aka Richard Born
Sho Bud Ldg
Dekley D-10
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Ron Jones
From:
Lenoir City, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2004 8:08 pm
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Herbie Wallace "Selections of the Toe Tapping Variety".
Traffic??? What traffic?
Only problem is Tempo of song is directly related to speed of car. Indiana is about 90 MPH tempo. I love it. |
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 3:02 am
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Shania "Up"
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 4:07 am
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| I've stopped listening to country radio. It's all new country, stuff that I just can't abide. I find listening to classical music whilst driving removes the cares of the day. |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 4:47 am
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| How about this CD by Dale Watson, "Dreamland"? Now there's some toe tapping stuff with great steel licks (my opionion of course); I think Ralph Mooney is on one cut. |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 4:49 am
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| Sorry about the spelling, I got in a hurry. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 6:47 am
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If you'll pardon the self-serving advertisement, I think that my band, Beats Walkin's, latest release, "Bop-a-billy Swing!" makes for great driving music. It won't lessen the traffic but for sure you'll be smilin' through it all! 
(available thru the Forum) |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 7:53 am
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Bill Kirchen's "Diesel-Billy Road Trip".
Country and Rockabilly by a master Tele Twanger, with Ricky Davis's PSG added to a few cuts.
If that doesn't wake you up you shouldn't be driving.
Available a t CRACKERBARREL restaurants and web site. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 8:18 am
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I spend an average of ten hours per night, from midnight until afternoon.
In the darkest, loneliest, and traffic free areas of the highway......I plug in a Jerry Byrd cassette and listen intently. It amazes me HOW MANY TIMES I have found that on the record, he does this or that in a far different way than my ears originally had me believe.
As I drive, I visualize JB's playing and can actually see the frets and what string combinations he used for this or that phrase.
His way, most often is the easiest way to accomplish it.......and is the reason for the fabulous tone he produces.
He doesn't play a phrase on the top three strings then drop down to the ninth string or where ever, simply because it is a correct note and it's there...but rather, he will move up and down the length of the neck to make continuous, the phrase he's involved with. So much of what JB has done for years is so subtle, one can easily miss the technique being applied. There's more to playing a steel guitar than just playing correct notes......... if you truly want to get "the sound" then one has to dig just a little deeper.
It still amazes me in Hawaiian music, how much MUSIC is actually made by the rythm guitar and Uke...and bass, while the steel can trip thro' all those crooked/bent chords on but a single string or perhaps two. That's the beauty of Hawaiian music. |
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erik
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Posted 26 Jun 2004 4:15 pm
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How about Steve Miller?
-johnson |
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2004 5:23 am
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I'll second Jim Cohen's self-promotion on Beat's Walkin's "Bob-A-Bily-Swing". That's fun stuff to listen to even for this hard core country boy!
Dale Watson's "Dreamland" has been my constant companion since the day it arrived last week. I'll bet it would sound just great booming through my patio speakers overlooking the #12 tee...
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HagFan
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 28 Jun 2004 8:47 am
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| I think that (Jim Cohen's), Beats Walkin's, latest release, "Bop-a-billy Swing!" makes for great driving music. |
Yep! Good music. And fun!
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2004 1:06 pm
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| Steve Reich, "Music for 18 Musicians" and anything from before 1750... |
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