Posted on 05/13/2013 6:20:43 AM PDT by paterfamilias
Good choices! Add Florida’s guitar army The Outlaws and some Blackhawk. Oh and Blackfoot Train Train......Been on an Iron Maiden kick lately too
Call Me The Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd
LA Woman - The Doors
If You Don't Start Drinkin' - George Thorogood
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Highway Star - Deep Purple
A little classical stuff for those stretches near Carmel that will melt yer head -
6th (Pastoral) Symphony - Beethoven
7th Symphony - Antonin Dvorak
41st Symphony - Mozart
1st Symphony - Brahms
A little jazz to chill out -
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Chet Baker in Paris - Chet Baker
Nice stuff. And a warning - Radar Love might get you arrested... ;-)
Muddy Waters, His Best: 1948-55 and His Best: 1956-64.
B.B. King, Do the Boogie: Early '50s Classics.
Duke Ellington, Braggin' in Brass: The Complete 1938 Recordings.
Michael Bloomfield and Friends, Live at Bill Graham's Fillmore West 1969.
Otis Redding, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul.
James Brown, Live at the Apollo.
Howlin' Wolf, Moanin' at Midnight/Howlin' Wolf.
Grant Green, Grant's First Stand.
Various Artists, Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland-Dozier-Holland Story. (Including their Motown hits in the original mono single masters---talk about putting the jukebox in your car!)
The Butterfield Blues Band, East-West.
Ray Charles, The Genius Sings the Blues.
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.
The Beatles, The Beatles' Second Album. (Yes, I know, Capitol fragmented their catalog in the original heady days, but even with that this album just plain kicked---and kicks---end-to-end ass!)
Savoy Brown, A Step Further. (Especially for "The Savoy Brown Boogie" . . .)
Canned Heat, Boogie with Canned Heat.
Santana, Live at the Fillmore '68.
Albert King, I'll Play the Blues for You.
Freddie King, The Complete King/Federal Singles.
Guitar Slim, Sufferin' Mind: The Legends of Specialty Series.
Booker T. and the MGs, Melting Pot.
Albert Collins, The Cool Sound of Albert Collins.
Various Artists, Memphis Blues: Important Postwar Blues (a four-disc set of all the blues Sam Phillips recorded at what became the Sun Studios before he found Elvis Presley).
John Lee Hooker, The Original Modern Recordings.
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Rev Up: The Best of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (and how long do we have to wait before these guys get their due in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?)
. . . just for openers . . .
For me—any desert driving requires The Eagles and some CCR.
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