I recently came upon a CD that was made up of music for road trips. Now, I'll be honest. I was in a hurry and didn't take time to read the selections, but it gave me an idea. What if we created our own road trip play list? (This is where we'll need lots of input.) We should have different categories depending on where we'll be traveling, time of day, mood, etc., but since you all have your own tastes, and we'll need tons of music to keep us busy (and perhaps singing), we'd love for you to provide us with tunes, songs, possible categories that you think would add to our experience.
There are the obvious selections: King of the Road, I Can't Drive, Running on Empty, Highway to Hell, Drive My Car, On the Road Again, Hit the Road, Low Rider, Paradise By the Dashboard Light, Life is a Highway, Roam... But we realize that not all songs should be about cars, driving, or the highway. We're going to want songs that get us up and singing, songs that get us in the mood for being in the car, and even songs for long driving stretches or mellow times such as driving in bad weather.
Please: begin sending us your suggestions! We'd love to compile a huge list and get it ready by early June when we'll have lots of other things to be worrying about. Should you have time, we'd also love for you to put your tunes on CDs and send them to us. We'll take pictures of where we are when we play your music and post it to the blog.
Thanks so much for helping us out with this one!
Get Your Kicks on Route 66 (r u driving this route?), Take me Home Country Road, Born to Run, The Devil Went Down to Georgia and I can think of many more
ReplyDeleteHow about "I've been Everywhere" Johhny Cash
ReplyDeleteI now have multiple "gart" playlists on my itunes that I will be adding to and changing until I bring you CDs in June. :) should be fun!
ReplyDeleteI'm not posting any music that has anything to do with driving! Just music that is good cruising around music...
ReplyDeleteI recommend Jack Johnson for rainy day happy music. I don't have a full album of his, but most of the songs that I love (Bubble Toes, Banana Pancakes, Good People) are on "In Between Dreams."
"Run Around"- Blues Traveler
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits
"Mr. Jones" and "Hangin Around"- Counting Crows
"Bang Bang"-Dispatch
"Baby Got Sauce"- G Love & Special Sauce
Cracked Rear View (album)- Hootie & the Blowfish
"The Way I Am"- Ingrid Michaelson
"New Soul"- Yael Naim
I see "Take Me Home Country Road" was already recommended...and I say add on "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"- John Denver
Listen to some of those and if you like them, I'll put them on a CD. If you want any full albums (or even just a few more songs) from any of those artists, let me know and I'll get them to you.
I'll post more before your trip.
Our friend Eric has lots of music suggestions but he also wrote this: "I have been to everywhere you have mentioned and here are just a few of the cool places I have visited. I would recommend selecting a few of the "cool" must see places and finding the unknown ones from those points. For example - If you are heading to Richmond, VA - them you should go to Charlottesville, VA. Tarboro, NC is on the way to Nags Head, NC and Kitty Hawk. In SC I would go to Spartenburg/Greenville (Greenville has a minor league baseball team) and is a cool little college town. If you are in Charleston, SC, you should make the drive northwest to Upstate South Carolina through Columbia to the Spartenburg area. From there Kenny needs to find the Ty Cobb Museum in some little town in north GA near the SC border. Birmingham, AL has some fun stuff. If you go to Austin, you must stay for Sunset - there is a bridge downtown where over a million bats live, they come out every night - and its really cool."
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