What are you listening to now?

Da Nag

Da Nag

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Good friends, good boats...we're truly a lucky group.

We've shared many experiences with each other, I thought it might be neat to try it with another category near and dear to my heart - music.

I'll start it off...

Right now, I've got a little Nickle Creek going. These youngsters are hard to categorize...many toss them in the folk genre, but that's way too narrow of a description. Almost exclusively acoustical, they've got talent coming out their ears...the energy that flows from this trio is pretty unique.

So - what are you listening to now?
 
Okay I will chime in here :note :note I love Nickle Creek. I first started listening to them when I was trying to learn bluegrass fiddle. They are incredible!
What am I listening to now... Well, in the mornings on the way to school it is usually John Denver. My kids chose him almost every morning. When it is just me it is usually Country music or something with a lot of acoustic guitar. I am now trying to learn guitar!! :?

Julie
 
Da Nag":3ql0o68h said:
Good friends, good boats...we're truly a lucky group.
We've shared many experiences with each other, I thought it might be neat to try it with another category near and dear to my heart - music.
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It doesn't get much "nearer and dearer to my heart" than when she is with me in the boat or the car/truck, I listen to daughter Jessica :love !
She is constantly singing and what a joy it is to hear! :smilep

(Obviously, a proud dad!)
 
I spend most of my time listening to talk radio. For music, I like country but I get tired of listening to the same 10 songs played over and over on the radio.
 
Today is a good music day in the green PNW, as the rains have returned. The bad news is, we are having a new fence put up and the rain is keeping me from getting the stain on to protect the wood. The good news is, I don't have to stain. :mrgreen:
I am sitting inside, reading and listening to the new Bob Dylan CD, Modern Times. I like it.
Robbi
 
I have sirius in the Tom Cat 255 and my SUV. 80% Talk radio (NPR--unless it gets "too liberal"--counters Fox news) and 10% clasical and 10% jazz, but since it is Sirius, it is just what comes my way. Satellite radio has revolutionized our trips across country--and even in remote areas, gives us a little weather up update on the world--maybe 30 minutes a day!
 
Here we have both kinds of music-- Country AND Western :lol:
Heck, I might even throw in a little CCR, Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 
We enjoy the variety on Sirius, especially Radio Margaritaville (must be the sailor boy in me). Besides Jimmy Buffett, I particularly enjoy Eric Stone (you can check his music out on boatsongs.com); he's kind of where Jimmy B was 20 years ago.

I was raised on rock 'n roll, but have come to appreciate a more mellow sound... some acoustic, put in some steel drums... ah, the island-boy in me comes out. :smiled

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Javier Vanvelthoven, Spanish classical guitarist - bought the CD from him while he was playing on the steps of a cathedral in Barcelona, just GREAT music. Tinglestad and Rumbel - guitar and ocarina. Buddy Holly. Fats Domino. Ian Tyson. Tom Russell. Ian and Sylvia. Riley and Maloney. Irish Rovers. CCR. Eagles...enough?
 
Pat Anderson":22e7pgjd said:
Javier Vanvelthoven, Spanish classical guitarist - bought the CD from him while he was playing on the steps of a cathedral in Barcelona, just GREAT music.
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Haven't heard of him, and don't see him listed in any of the usual places. Is it a custom CD, or is he published?

I've got a soft spot for classical guitar...have some Julian Breem playing in the background right now. David Russell is also pretty dang talented.

Good stuff...
 
The guy I bought the Sea Ray from left me a GROCERY BAG full of casette tapes that his audiophile brother had carefully recorded and labeled for him(!!!)

Just about everything from classical to jazz, to rock, to you name it.

I'll be busy sorting it out for a few months. It adds a whole new dimension to the new boat!

Later, Joe. :note :note :note :note :note :note :smile
 
We used to go to IBMA in Owensboro and then Louisville, KY. We saw Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek) playing with a bunch of other 13 year olds on the banks of the Ohio. I wanted to break their little arms, they were so good. Most of them kids is pros now. I used to think Ron McCoury of the Del McCoury (Bluegrass) Band was the best mandolin picker in the world, but I have seen Chris's peers, twice his age or more, roll their eyes at his prowess. He may be young, and he may be a little strange (I mean, I think I recall him kissing Tom T. Hall on stage at the Awards Show one night), but he's probably the best they is.

And Ian Tyson and Ian and Sylvia are right up there too, in a different genre. I've been pickin their tunes since about 1963 and listening to their music about brings me to tears. There's none better.

And we just heard Doc Watson. live at 83 years old, last week. And he still has a power and spirit we should all strive for. I should've started pickin' earlier and practiced harder.
Al
 
I listen mostly to sirius. I like a variety of music but grew up with rock.

I listen to classic rock, blues, bluegrass, classical and anything that catches my attention.

I do have to slip over to the Stones station several times a week and listen to some of my favorites - Wild Horses, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile.

Steve
 
MOOSE":2m3ilawn said:
And we just heard Doc Watson. live at 83 years old, last week. And he still has a power and spirit we should all strive for. I should've started pickin' earlier and practiced harder.
Al
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If you don't have it already, get the "3 Pickers" DVD, great stuff =)
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We listen to, 99% of the time,............The Chieftains, Danu, Lunasa, Great Big Sea, Old Blind Dogs, Andy M. Stewart, The Irish Descendants, Barra MacNeils, Harry Hibbs, Hank Snow, The Dubliners.....great stuff!
Rick and Donna
P.S As I type, Rick is installing our new stereo in the boat........will be so much better than the portable DVD that we were using.......Our weekends out on Lake Martin will be rocking!
 
Here's a rare little diddy for any jazz fans in the house...

My high school closed down a couple years after I left, and with it went an incredible run of delivering excellent musicians. This was mostly due to Bob Soder, our music director who inspired so many kids...the guy was a true character. Jazz was his love, and the annual jazz concerts were the musical highlight of our then small town.

Bob's most talented prodigy was, without a doubt, the most screaming trumpet player you'll ever hear - Jon Faddis. This guy has chops! The closest in terms of raw power was probably Maynard Ferguson in his prime.

Every year, Pleasant Hill High School cut an album of their jazz concert. A couple hundred were sold to the students. I was just a kid in attendance for Jazz Trac 12, a.k.a.Camel Lips, circa 1975. I remember it vividly...I'd never heard anything like it. I was hooked, and have been a Faddis fan ever since.

Well, enough with the trip down memory lane...a few pops/cracks and not great quality given the album-mp3 conversion, but this track is rare as hen's teeth. By high school standards, the band was pretty dang good. Jon tosses in a couple short blasts as teasers, surrounded by a decent piano solo, and a somewhat painful alto sax solo. Then, at 5:35 in, prepare to be floored...Jon kicks in with a solo entrance that still gives me goose bumps. And remember - this kid was 18! Jazz fans will recognize the Dizzy Gillespie influence...Jon studied with him as well at an early age.

A very neat piece of more recent jazz musical history...here's a link to "Why Not" (8MB).

Yup, it's a legal download...don't worry about the RIAA knocking on your door. :note :note :note
 
I was a talk radio junky, but it seemed I was always getting angry at the political B.S. Now I listen to soft Jazz, and I arrive at work in a good mood. :thup
Terry
 
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