"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

now you mean?

"4clubbers" is the radio's name, light loungy music

why?

got this to give my Pirates Tavern some moody feeling, love it

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otherwise I listen to 80's 90's Blues, Jazz, Lounge, some good rock
Maxx
Maxx
 
black mamba said:
Nearly everything: Classical, Jazz, Christian, Fusion and Rock . . . just not country & western.

Although I can appreciate some of the talent in that genre, it's just not for me.
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I listen to everything from Baroque classical to jazz to fusion, to electronic and rock/metal like Jeff but I do listen to country & western (just not the pop country) as well as traditional conjunto accordian music that my dad used to listen to. I pretty much listen to anything really. I would groove to Indian sitar music if it was good. :cool:
 
There's one thing you won't catch me listening to. Classical. Other than that- everything. You might catch me listening to metal today (my wife calls it my hate music lol), Nat King Cole tomorrow, Zep the next day, and blue grass, rap, and pop mixed in for good measure. If I was stranded on a desert island, and had to pick just one artists music, it's Zeppelin all the way, but just like knives... I love it all.
 
coniferwoodsman said:
Cheesy thread I know, but I gotta know.

I was at this show and I have loved this stuff for years. A friend of mine said it was "whittlin' tunes".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg1F4WGw0qI
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Good tunes there.

I consider Bluegrass and Celtic Music to be my ethnic music. I was born in Ohio, but my Momma was born in a cabin on the side of mountain down Morgan County, Ky way with a lot of family on her side nearby in McGoffin County. Those folk's lineage runs on back to Scots-Irish, Scots, and Welsh.

I enjoy most anything as the mood strikes me except hard core rap, elevator music, and most hip-hop. I'm more to renaissance/chamber/baroque in the classic arena. I flow back and forth on a lot of things to include a variety of what is called "World" music: Cajun, African, middle eastern from North Africa to India, Cuban and a variety of Latin types, various European folk and various types, and others. Old rock, new rock, in-between rock. Country old and new. Western which ain't necessarily the same as country. There's a reason it's called Country and Western. Mood strikes and it's big band swing, modern jazz, dixieland, crooners, new age, Andrea Bocelli, even a little opera, but not much.

Most of the years I've been primarily a rocker from back in the 70's with the requisite Zep, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, etc.. I graduate HS in 75, with plenty of Willie, Waylon, Conrad Twitty, Ray Price (that man does enunciate his words quite clearly) and many others old and new. Eagles with their western rock sound along with the Pure Prairie League and the Outlaws.
Been a major Nanci Griffith fan since I saw her on some late night music show on TV the first time while on CQ duty in the Army stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. She did "Once In a Very Blue Moon." Fell in love with her, that song, and her music and songwriting. We tend to disagree a bit politically so a live-in relationship just wasn't in the cards. :D HOwever, she and I have traveled a lot of miles, both literal and on me, she just doesn't know it.

I guess pretty much anything that has life in it, hence my disdain for elevator music which is so often watered down something else with all the soul sucked out of it.

Nowadays, I may drive to work and back listening to Hinder, Disturbed, or Seether on my USB stick in the car, or may hook the EVO to the stereo and listen to Adam Hurst's Cello, or Sarah McLachlan, then swing over to fiddles and bagpipes. Or some Nanci.

I guess you could say I'm a traditional renaissance man, or eclectic, or any who know me just a bit might say, an eccentric. :D
 
Blues said:
I've got quite a few cd's by Dwight Yoakam. I really like his style. (Though I haven't kept up with his most recent releases.)
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I too like Dwight. He's a great talent . Growing up I listened to Merle, George, Johnny, Buck, Patsy Cline and others. That to me, is what country music is. I really use to enjoy watchin the Grand Ol Orpy on the t.v. Always a lot of great performers to be found... The stuff being labeled as country today, is just re labeled pop music IMHO.
A singer that I really felt a big loss when he died, was Chris Le Deaux. Everybody that was into rodeo use to listen to him. We always had him on the speakers when I was still team roping. It just felt right, because you knew he had been there and done that... Unfortunately, he never achieved the level of fame, that I truly think he deserved.
It just kills me to listen to a Taylor Swift song. She is like 19 years old and sings songs about relationships, like she is in her 50's. I guess I put to much thought into the lyrics. Granted she is cute as a bug. However, she ain't no Sarah Evans.

I can't believe there hasn't been any mention of Louis L'Amour...
 
music depends on what one is that day, sometimes bach, sometimes zydeco, sometimes blue grass, celtic, but most willie.--dennis
 
I consider myself very eclectic in musical taste, but I am partial to Rock of the 70's and a lot of bands from the south of the US...Skynyrd, zz top, blackfoot etc really hits a note in my musical taste, but I also listen to Gaelic music (love Karen Matheson and Capercallie) and some electronica. But I give most any genre a go.
 
338375 said:
I can't believe there hasn't been any mention of Louis L'Amour...
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Mike, I think the difference (and I don't mean this disrespectfully) is that L'Amour and many of the top "Westerns" writers (and I've read a bunch) tend to be somewhat formulaic.
While the books may have pace and a decent storyline they don't (in my eyes) rise to the level of "literature" that books by Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry or Pete Dexter (amongst others) achieve.
(Westerns by and large aren't really known for that level of sophistication. Again, I still enjoy reading them...from "The Riders Of The Purple Sage" to "The Virginian" as well as more modern authors and their works.)

Now, for the music part of the discussion...I have very broad tastes in music.

Blues & Jazz are probably my mainstays. Everything from roots music (early Mississippi recordings) through Chicago, Memphis and the early Arkansas recordings. Big fan of the 50's period with Muddy, Howlin', Buddy Guy, Sonnyboy Williamson (I & II), Junior Wells and a lot of other great musicians. Just follow the railroad lines north from Mississippi and you can't miss.

As for jazz, primarily a devotee of Monk, Mingus, Miles and Coltrane and the guys associated with the "hard bop", modal and "straight ahead" period from the early 50's to mid 60's. Amazing music.

In the 60's and 70's you could catch me at the Fillmore East, Village Vanguard, Top Of The Gate, Blue Note, and a bunch of other classic haunts in NYC.

Good music is good music regardless of the genre imho.
 
Oh, another "Western" worth reading, is True Grit by Charles Portis. Really a fun, clever read with a different point of view.
(I couldn't remember if I had mentioned that previously or not. Getting old, don't you know? ;))
 
I really need to pickup Lonesome Dove, I loved the mini series.

Nothing better than blues and bluegrass, the more "down home" the better. I prefer Delta blues and Texas blues. If you've ever picked up "Not the Same Old Blues Crap", a couple albums, you'll know what I like. The guy who just got out of work, and is pickin' on the front porch, raw blues that isn't much more refined in the studio. I grew up on the oldies, country western and country, and rock. I've really gotten into Motown/soul in the past couple of years, and have developed a better appreciation of jazz. Nothing better than riding back from the mountains, listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Stanley Brothers and Bill Munro.
 
Blues said:
Mike, I think the difference (and I don't mean this disrespectfully) is that L'Amour and many of the top "Westerns" writers (and I've read a bunch) tend to be somewhat formulaic.
While the books may have pace and a decent storyline they don't (in my eyes) rise to the level of "literature" that books by Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry or Pete Dexter (amongst others) achieve.
(Westerns by and large aren't really known for that level of sophistication. Again, I still enjoy reading them...from "The Riders Of The Purple Sage" to "The Virginian" as well as more modern authors and their works.)

Now, for the music part of the discussion...I have very broad tastes in music.

Blues & Jazz are probably my mainstays. Everything from roots music (early Mississippi recordings) through Chicago, Memphis and the early Arkansas recordings. Big fan of the 50's period with Muddy, Howlin', Buddy Guy, Sonnyboy Williamson (I & II), Junior Wells and a lot of other great musicians. Just follow the railroad lines north from Mississippi and you can't miss.

As for jazz, primarily a devotee of Monk, Mingus, Miles and Coltrane and the guys associated with the "hard bop", modal and "straight ahead" period from the early 50's to mid 60's. Amazing music.

In the 60's and 70's you could catch me at the Fillmore East, Village Vanguard, Top Of The Gate, Blue Note, and a bunch of other classic haunts in NYC.

Good music is good music regardless of the genre imho.
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Thats very true Elliott. I almost put a disclaimer in about the L"Amour books :D

I had never been exposed to Jazz in my younger days. Then a girl I was madly in love with with, turned me on to it. I was hooked. The only problem is, everytime I hear it, it reminds me of her :(
 
338375 said:
The only problem is, everytime I hear it, it reminds me of her :(
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Isn't it amazing how a song from 30 - 40+ years ago can bring you right back to a certain "event" or time in your life .....

I don't listen to music much anymore, but I like 50 - 60's rock 'n roll and classical music.
 
I love L'Amour...but I agree. I've read almost all his stuff (I got a bit obsessed) and his books are like romance novels for men. Fun to read, but not a lot of depth and very formulaic.

This past November I did the National Novel Writing Month. 50K words in a month. I came out with a pretty decent pulp novel. The idea was a modern day LL. Bikes instead of horses. It turned out pretty well, probably because I've read so much of his work and looked at it as a tribute. Hell, I've probably read Hondo alone 10 times. I can almost recite it.

I like pretty much any kind of music except death metal and generic reggae. I grew up on punk rock and folk/country. Now my tastes run to folk, indie rock, and hip hop with a bit of punk rock thrown in for nostalgia. I have trouble with a lot of jazz, but I love bossanova (Getz and Gilberto...practically worn out the grooves...yeah, I still have a record player). I've been rediscovering the Beatles which I tend to do every few years. And the Kinks.
 
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Blues said:
Oh, another "Western" worth reading, is True Grit by Charles Portis. Really a fun, clever read with a different point of view.
(I couldn't remember if I had mentioned that previously or not. Getting old, don't you know? ;))
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Elliott--I don't think it the getting old----IMHO my hard drive is just too full
Harold
 
bucksforus said:
Elliott--I don't think it the getting old----IMHO my hard drive is just too full
Harold
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I like the way you think, Harold. :thumbup:

Now, can I upgrade without having to send myself to the scrap heap? :eek::p
 
I just never got into blues& jazz. There's a few pieces I like here and there, but for the most part I just don't understand alot of it, especially the experimental type stuff. I'm a bit eclectic. Always been a big fan of industrial/metal. Ska/reggae/island music is always good. Recently got into bluegrass, but again, I like the less jazzy, more old timey type stuff. A friend of mine got me into classical music, and showed me that there's basically two types: the "traditional" type - very stuffy, proper, and boring, and the type where the conductor and ensemble realize that these composers were the rock gods of their day and if they didn't impress the hell out of their patron and get them to sit on the edge of their seat, they were out of a paycheck.
 
Blues said:
Blues & Jazz are probably my mainstays.
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Hmmm, I originally figured your nick Blues originated from your location in the Blue Ridge Mountains but I see I stand corrected.

Just so there is no misunderstanding, my nick originated from the fact that I am from Texas and I do fly fish. :p
 
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