Whatcha listening to?

[Rowdy Redneck]

Chattanooga has an amazing classic country station, 97.3. I listen to it when I'm in range. My wife got us a family Spotify account, so I am slowly downloading music to my phone. Mostly classic country and Americana, but also some upbeat pop for working out. I'm also slowly getting into podcasts. They are nice for the two hour drives I make four times a week.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I have some very wide ranging musical tastes. Some stuff many of you may not have heard...
If you like Paul Simon's Graceland, these may have some appeal:
Johnny Clegg and Savuka - South African
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - large group mostly a Capella
Brenda Fassie - no idea what the words meaning but it is uplifting to me

If you like vocals try these:
The Nylons
Pentatonix- local group from Arlington, TX that made it big
Straight, No Chaser

For country music, I am partial to 70-80s stuff. My friends dad was the GM of our local AM station and we heard a lot back in the day:

Waylon and Willie
Johnny Cash
Hoyt Axton

And Southern Rock:
ZZ Top
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Hoyt Axton was a local boy here, for a while. He had an astonishing home on the North Umpqua that was a log mansion built by a couple bachelor Swedish brothers in the '50s. Even the door latches were hand carved, and the door handles were carved and polished pine knots. Jeremiah the Bullfrog was a chainsaw carving that sat by the front door. I loved his music, from "Greenback Dollar" to "Snow Blind Friend."

 

[Doughknob]

 

[Rowdy Redneck]

Hoyt Axton was a local boy here, for a while. He had an astonishing home on the North Umpqua that was a log mansion built by a couple bachelor Swedish brothers in the '50s. Even the door latches were hand carved, and the door handles were carved and polished pine knots. Jeremiah the Bullfrog was a chainsaw carving that sat by the front door. I loved his music, from "Greenback Dollar" to "Snow Blind Friend."

Boney fingers!

 

[Pixguy]

I spend a lot of time listening to spotify. I grew up on 60-80s rock and 90s country.
But it all gets old and looking for new stuff.

I just stumbled onto "Home Free" and like the their version of Seven Bridges by the Eagles.

Looking for ideas and hoping others will share what they listen to either music or podcasts.
IF there is a thread already here, I couldn't find it so please post it you know where it is.

Definitely a good cover but I still like the original OEM
Then again I've been on the Eagles since I saw their Melbourne concert on YouTube tv.

 

[Root Cause]

This is the best southern rock? band that I completely missed until after they broke up.
They struggled to get air time on either rock or country stations as they didn't quite fit either genre.

Oddly, we first heard this song,

at a 4th of July rodeo in Old Fort, NC, not far from Asheville. It was very interesting to see the locals. Well-mannered kids, dressed for the occasion, and everyone enjoying the music. People were dancing or tapping their toes. The music was addictive and by the 3rd verse, I really started listening to the lyrics to realize we are all dancing to a tune where a guy kills his girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a jealous rage.

It made the hairs on my neck stand up. I couldn't help but wonder, for a moment, that we had just walked into an episode of the Twilight Zone. It was just a funny moment in time. The people there just good folks having a great day. It felt like we had walked back into the 60's where times were simpler and kinder. Soul Gravy became one of my favorite albums.