we are beginning at 5 am so it begins softly....

Aaron Copeland- Appalachian Spring
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
Coldplay- A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Matchbox Twenty- Exile on Mainstream
Andres Segovia- Segovia Music for the guitar
Santana- Abraxis
REM- Reveal
Muddy Waters- At Newport 1960
Leonard Cohen- The Essential Leonard Cohen

some Dead.... then more to follow....

Silence, I like it.... :)

I am mostly an ‘east sider’ so I usually turn the radio off once I leave hwy 61 or there abouts. And it usually takes me till about duluth on the way home till I realize that I havent turned it back on. But silence the whole way….i like to sing along way too much for that.

nope.. my finger slipped on send too quick!! I really am just fishing for more good music ideas.

I have an album called "CanoeSongs" that I love for the way up. Also "Anter Bear Kazoo" which has songs all about the north shore and Isle Royale. (Kids songs on that one but I like it anyway.)

I was just joking around, I saw the blank post and thought it funny. Classic Rock all the way for me.

Everclear (figures, huh?) "songs from an american movie" vol. 1&2.

It really depends on who I am with, I am not very picky when it comes to the music. Some favorites would be CCR, Seger, Sublime, audioslave, darius rucker, anything by carrie underwood, zac brown band, anything that is good that is on the radio. Once I get close I like to turn off the radio and just here the wind.

I am going to take a solo this fall so I will get to indulge myself a little with some guilty pleasures….i wont mention what they are, only my wife know – cause she catches me singing along sometimes!

I have a list that I want to put together for my solo on June 20th.

John Butler trio
Gnarls Barkley
Edie Vedder's Into the Wild soundtrack
Pearl Jam
Johnny Cash


And still working on more

Audio books for me, all the way up when I am the only one in the car. When I am driving with others, I create a mix of music that will stick in people's heads. Cruel, but funny to me.

Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Buena Vista Social Club-
Sufjan Stevens- Come on Feel the Illinoise!
Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark
Crosby, Stills and Nash-
David Grisman and Jerry Garcia- Shady Grove
Dave Brubeck- The Essence of Dave Brubeck
Edith Piaf- Eternalle
Dave Matthes Band-The Gorge
Paul Simon- Graceland
Toots and the Maytals- Funky Kingston

are we there yet?.....

For the drive up before a canoe trip I'd start with some Allman Brothers and Santana, then maybe mix in some Jethro Tull and Moody Blues, and maybe cap it with some Willie Nelson.

NPR reception is seamless all the way through IN, IL, WI, MN, including a WI station whose call letter starts with a K.

oooooh!!! I meant to ask someone what the NPR station I would get at Sawbill?

Phish- Run like an antelope, Free
Allman Brothers- Whipping post, Blue Sky
Widespread Panic- Driving Song, Traveling Light, Blackout Blues
Blitzen Trapper- Furr,Wild Mountain Nation
The Decemberists- Valencia
Yonder Mountain- Town, Steep Grade Sharp Curves
REM- Near wild Heaven, Superman
Louvine Brothers- In the Pines ( look it up,great song)
Skynrd- Simple man

I have a set I just call "Road Songs".
It begins with:

"Start Me Up", the Stones
"Bad Moon Rising" Rasputina
"Truckin" The Dead
"I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" ZZ Top
"Hit the Road Jack" Ray Charles
"Days and Days" Concrete Blonde
"Roadhouse Blues" The Doors
"Turtle Blues" Janice Joplin
"Pipeline" The Ventures
"Maybelline" Chuck Berry
"Hot Rod Lincoln" Commander Cody
"Crimson and Clover" Joan Jett
"Gun Street Girl" Tom Waits
"Possum in the Grotto" Rasputina
"L A Woman" The Doors
"Radar Love" Golden Earring

I have other collections, but these start my road trips.

This is what I'll be listening to on the way up from mpls June 17:

http://panicstream.com/streams/wsp/2002_04_28/player.html

http://panicstream.com/streams/wsp/1996_04_03/player.html

Hope you like them. Lots of good info on this board, thanks everyone!

Glad to see that theres another Spread Head on this board. BTW, I was at that 1996 Huntsville show. Along with 27 other Widespread shows that i have made it too.

Sorry for hijacking this thread. I got a little excited!!! Back to the music now!

For whatever reason (besides the simple fact that it just rocks) Weezer's Blue Album is required listening on the way to or from the Boundary Waters for me and my friends. Although last year we expanded somewhat; on our way back from a particularly significant trip to Knife Lake, four of us sang, from beginning to end, Neutral Milk Hotel's "Aeroplane over the Sea."

While just a few years ago I would have despised myself for liking them, I'm now old enough that I like sensitive folk music like the Great Lake Swimmers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6W_cq-zQ0

Don't forget Wilson Phillips "Hold On." Gotta rock out to it like in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

THANK YOU- for reminding me to download this song before I go! Great Lake Swimmers

I'll be bringing more 8 Tracks up to my cabin soon.
Picked up a Merl Haggard.
What was the question ?

I used to be a techno phobe, but the incredible joy of having ALL my music (~ 15,000 songs) in my hand was too much to resist.

5,000 songs, but we usually roll with "Into the Wild" soundtrack and some classic rock. Clapton, Hendrix, the Stones. And perhaps the most influential artist of all time.... Eddie Money!

I've got a long drive. Led Zeppelin, ZZTop, Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Guess Who, Doors, Allman Brothers, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Beatles, Yo Yo Ma, Dylan, CSNY, Mellencamp, Metallica, Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Bonamassa, Hendrix, The Kooks, Satriani, Robert Plant, Gov't Mule, Rush, Joplin, Moreland & Arbuckle, Guns & Roses, Cream, and...

Wow lots of good music on this Board
My playlist this year may be something like this.
Govt. Mule- Red Rocks 2008 for starters
Allman Bros - 3-19-09 with Eric Clapton (Allman , Trucks, Haynes, and Clapton) wow
David Byrne
PHISH!! Maby Alpine 98
Some Jerry.. My favorite is Garcia/Khan 5-05-1982 Oregon State Prison
Others would include Marley, Ben Harper, The Black Crows, Dr. John, The Neville Bros, some Jimmi Buffet, Willie Nelson, Mels Saunders, Panic and Cheese, Railroad Earth, Ray Charles, the Waybacks, and Some Yonder Mtn.

Wow I can't wait for the drive up =D

Was at Phish Alpine 98 (if that was the Led Zepp Ramble On opener and Been Caught Steelin' encore)! BEST show ever and my first Phish show.

Railroad Earth is GREAT if you haven't checked them out, please do. Waybacks, good stuff, Leftover Salmon, Dead, Beatles...

If you have not listened to Trampled by Turtles, PLEASE DO. They are a Duluth band. Some would not call them bluegrass because they expand a bit beyond traditional bluegrass but I love them! TBT, check them out.

David

I'm with Soledad, I love to find a good audiobook and listen to a compelling novel while watching the miles roll by. I'll be tripping with my dad this year and I'm not sure how excited he'll be to listen, of course, he won't like any of my music, either, so maybe we'll just have to turn off the radio and talk or something. Could be interesting.

I usually just listen to whatever is on the radio. Lotta classic rock and country though.

I also like to scan the radio stations during my ride up. I always seem to tune in that NPR Car Talk show, I like that one.

If you start feeling a little drowsy, get a cup of coffee and put on the Bottle Rockets' "Coffee Monkey" & turn it up loud. (If I had to drive through IN, i'd also put on their song "Indianapolis" because1) it would seem appropriate and 2) it's a great song.)

Tom Petty, Eric Church, Pat Green, Johnny Cash, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, then some John Denver if I'm close to the entry point.

Those who have to listen to the radio or an iPod are not comfortable within their own silence and those who can't deal with silence should be ashamed of their reliance on another persons coice to keep them company.

Pat Metheny Group
Everclear
Beatles
Green day
Steely Dan
Garrison Keillor
When going up on saturday mornings I like NPR.

Quite a sweeping generalization there, chickenman. I don't knock those that prefer silence, and I enjoy silence in moderation as well, but some people (like myself) have a deep seeded connection with the music they like, that they play, and that they grew up around. For some people, music is cathartic. For some it is simply background music to keep them alert on the drive. Whatever our reasons for wanting to listen to music (or play music), they are no less important than your reasons to want silence.

Now, if someone brings a boombox along camping....grrrrrrrrrr


Croixboy96

Jimmy Buffett! He is the king of boat songs. It doesn't matter to me if it's a kayak or a 50' sailboat, just get me out on the water.

Golden Earring
Beatles
Poco
UFO
Grand Funk Railroad
The "Nuge"
Rare Earth
CSNY
audio book "Contact", by Carl Sagins
Trapeze

This guy has a cd that tends to really hit the spot on BW trips, you can order through his site. He's also an avid BW paddler. vandiver (Just wish he'd update his site once in awhile!)

quote chickenman95: "Those who have to listen to the radio or an iPod are not comfortable within their own silence and those who can't deal with silence should be ashamed of their reliance on another persons coice to keep them company. "

I get it........sarcasm right?!?!?!

all Dream Theater all the time for my drives up to bwca

Bob Marley-exodus, uprising, confrontation, natural mystic, natty dread, kaya, survival, catch a fire, rastaman vibration
all these albums are great pretty much anything Bob marley, also pink floyd

We just talk so we don't play anything on the way up or down.

For NPR,check here: MPR Stations
Looks like it'd be Grand Marais.

quote ekffazr: "

quote chickenman95: "Those who have to listen to the radio or an iPod are not comfortable within their own silence and those who can't deal with silence should be ashamed of their reliance on another persons coice to keep them company. "

I get it........sarcasm right?!?!?!


all Dream Theater all the time for my drives up to bwca"

Thanks for the reminder on Dream Theater. I still like Train of Thought best, but Octovarium is good.

I don't think Chickenman meant to be sarcastic ;), I think he just forgot his vow of silence :).

I listen to the radio but never music I'm more of antalk show guy but I guess I don't have a '' connection'' with my music like some people

16 Horsepower
Atmosphere
The Band
Beastie Boys
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Brother Ali
Calexico
Dave Matthews
Eddie Vedder
Greatful Dead
Iron and Wine
Jerry Garcia Band
Jimi Hendrix
Lateduster
Led Zeppelin
Morphine
Neil Young
Nick Drake
Phish
Pink Floyd
Robin Trower
Wilco

...press shuffle

Nuthin' like a little John Denver to get you into the spirit of nature.

quote nolanbunch: "Nuthin' like a little John Denver to get you into the spirit of nature."

I can dig it - I love's me some John Denver.