Life on the trail is full of days where you will spend many hours not pondering the meaning of
life, but the meaning of those lyrics that have been stuck in your head since Neels Gap, GA. That one or two songs that repeat themselves in your head with out fail. It could be a simple beat, rhythm, or song that you heard on the local radio station or a classic rock song you heard five years ago. It doesn't matter where the song came from, all that matters is that it is mostly likely driving you insane mile after mile. One way to combat these symptoms is to bombard your ears with worthwhile
music in great quanity while in a trail town. Many times this music comes in the form of live jams played by talented muscians of the trail, on guitars, fiddles, and other fine instruments. Here is a list in no particular order of some of the tunes we have been missing while on the trail.
Hendrix: Instrumental bold as Love, Album: live at Berkley
Grateful dead: Working man's dead
Don's favorite song: Miles Davis, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
Cowboy junkies: riverwaltz
--ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra)
--Grace Jeff Buckley
-- Keb 'Mo
Floyd: Animals, Meddle
Flaming lips: yoshimi battles the pink robot
Black keys; thickfreakness
Ben harper: fight for your mind, album: pleasure and pain
Blackalicious: blazing arrow
Xavier rudd
Sashamon
On second thought
Tilly & the Wall
Feeling Left Out
Widespread panic: Panic in the streets
String cheese incident
Assembly of dust
Deep banana blackout
Percy hill
Stevie wonder: songs in the key of life
Lucinda Williams: righteously
Hot buttered rum string band
Citizen cope
Death cab for cutie: Plans
Leo kottke
Devotchka
Queens of the stone age: Songs for the deaf, lullabies to paralyze
Radiohead: amnesiac, kid A, the bends
Southbounders soundtrack
Leftover salmon
Dntel
Kevin Federline: Popozau
Willy Mason: "Oxygen"
Ray LaMontagne
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