What kind of music do you listen to?

[Zach Matthews]

Especially when you are fishing?

My tastes have gone really eclectic in the last two years.  I used to listen to nothing but classic rock, but then, working construction, I realized the playlist is identical on every station because no new classic rock is recorded.  🙂

Now I listen to everything from Norah Jones to Old Crow Medicine Show to Allison Krauss.  Knoxville has a great radio station for new and old bluegrass, WDVX.  Check them out at http://www.wdvx.com/ (They have a free live feed).

I also am a compulsive NPR listener so I end up catching a lot of classical music waiting for the news.  The local DJ is, weirdly, this huge Rimsky-Korsakov fan.  The other day they ran a story on a Touareg music group called ‘Tinariwen’.  The Tuoareg are a nomadic group in Mali, Africa, who live in the Sahara.  This music is really freaking gritty – like New Orleans blues crossed with African rhythms and then crossed back with Elvis Presley’s guitar (and just his guitar).  Check them out here:

http://tinariwen.calabashmusic.com/?engine=overture!837&keyword=tinariwen

I recommend listening to the “Eh Massina Sintadoben” track sample.

I still love my Creedence Clearwater Revival, but after a long day on the river I will sometimes veg out to Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald while I drink a beer or grill something.

Zach

[Phil Landry]

I listen to a lot of Widespread Panic, GD, etc.

[Bob Riggins]

I like jazz and Led Zepplin.

[Philip Smith]

I bounce from local talk radio to NPR to bluegrass to traditional fiddle music to 90’s alternative rock (i.e., Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, etc.)

[anonymous]

In order….Classic rock,NPR,sports talk,Broadway,jazz,classical and some country occasionally.

[Jack Cummings]

I listen to loads of bluegrass… REAL country music!

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