Music for the trail

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Music for the trail

Postby MotorWerk » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:11 am

It's always nice to have some related music in your ears when sitting in front of the computer hitting F5 waiting for updates. Here are some tips:

Kyf Brewer - Songs For Mushers ("Pretty Sled Dogs", "Home", "I Run", "The Huskys Code")
Stuart Hamblen - The Spell of the Yukon ("Make Believe Bay", "Mush")

also

The Incredible String Band - anyone of their titles work fine, although they are not about mushing at all.

I also recommend an instrumental piece by electronic jazz favourites Red Snapper called "Alaska Street" from their album Our Aim is to Satisfy.
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby Moose » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:22 am

How about the Michelle Shocked song "Anchorage":

Hey Chel you know it's kinda funny
Texas always seems so big
But you know you're in the largest state in the Union
When you're anchored down in Anchorage
Wag more, bark less.
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby tanglefoot » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:18 pm

i was gonna put kyf brewer! songs for mushers is great cd! had it playing today at the demo and in the truck over.
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby eluciq_kennels » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:33 pm

never mind
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby ThisSpaceForRent » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:24 pm

Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...


Bonus points for artist and first album it was played on... ;)

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Re: Music for the trail

Postby SuldalsXpressen » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:49 pm

ThisSpaceForRent wrote:Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...


Bonus points for artist and first album it was played on... ;)

daniel


Frank Zappa - Don't eat that yellow snow :D First time on Apostrophe(!)

New one:

Snow cuts loose from the frozen,
untill it joins with the African sea.
In moving it changes its cold and its name.
The reason I come and go is the same.


Song, Artist, and best version :D
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby MotorWerk » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:57 pm

Eskimo Blue Day - Jefferson Airplane. I've only heard the Jefferson Airplane version. It's quite good.
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby SuldalsXpressen » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:07 pm

:D
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby Moose » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:16 pm

Twenty degrees and the hockey games on.
Nobody cares; they are way too far gone,
screamin' "Boat drinks," somethin'
to keep them all warm.
This morning I shot six holes in my freezer.
I think I got cabin fever.
Somebody sound the alarm.
:D
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Re: Music for the trail

Postby braider » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:41 pm

I'm not very music savvy, but, those words seem like they could be by Robert Zimmerman.
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