I like to hear some country music when I sit in front of my laptop exploring TG.I don't know but to me country is traditional bowhunting and it give me joy when I rest my bows,pretty rare moments by the way.What do you thinks buddies?
To each his own. :dunno:
I grew-up on Country music, and still like it best. Have you listened to the music of Chad K. Slagle? It's about Trad Bowhunting and outdoor themes. Excellent music! Two of his albums are "High, Wild and Free", and "Nights Like This". Mark Baker, Jim Bowman, and Steve Shedd have excellent albums with music your bows will enjoy while you're resting them also.
Thanks Danny for the tip.
Its funny, I rarely listen to the radio in my vehicles and never at home. The only time I hear music is at church and on TV. I love country music the best though. When I've traveled with others who listen to radios while they drive some of my fondest memories are of the music we heard. I still remember, way back in 1985 a trip with 3 other guys in a cargo van to hunt Mulies in WY - Marty Robbins music dominated our cassette player on that trip.
My favorite musician though is George Strait.
Everyone is different, I guess. I listen to jazz, old smoothies like Frank Sinatra, 80s rock and some more modern stuff if the singer has enough talent. Don't care for much in the way of country music, myself.
I can't really say I associate bowhunting with music either, other than I enjoy the heck outta both of 'em.
KIDD ROCK!! and vanzant my kind of country all the way good stuff
I think CM is the most typical American kind of music,the others are more commons and Internationals.It reminds me of my Rocky Mountains bowhunts too.
I liked country music when it was really country music. Not so today. Give me some Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and George Jones. Have a fondness for bluegrass gospel, fiddle tunes and Irish music too. But I have to admit none of them remind me of bowhunting.
Maybe for me is because I hear that kind of music driving the Mountains in CO-NM-WY-ID-MT and on my PC surfing TG.It isn't really common in Europe where people don't care of it and they snob it.
Chad Slagle sings some cool songs about bows and hunting. I own both his CD's and would recomend them to anyone.
His stuff is top notch!
Doyle Dykes, Leo Kottke....fingerstyle guitar for me
Love country music, but HATE today's county music radio. I do recommend Jamey Johnson to anybody, though. That dudes got a dark side, and he knows how to write a song.
Try living near Nashville & finding anything else to listen to.....
I do like some country stuff, but mainly the up-beat, honky tonk, dance to-able stuff. The dirge-ey "My dog is dead, I just shot my horse, my wife is leaving" side of the genre makes me wanna throw a rope over a rafter.
QuoteOriginally posted by cacciatore:
I think CM is the most typical American kind of music,the others are more commons and Internationals.It reminds me of my Rocky Mountains bowhunts too.
Yes, I guess for the foreign people like us Country = US, so I do too relate CM with hunting and the outdoors, and also with poker
I'm a bushie, but have a real hard time enjoying most country music, as to my ear it is either too corny or too sad. But I do make exception for Slim Dusty, and used some of my favourites from him to back my traditional bowhunting slideshow last year. I really liked the style of music that the Trash Boys used in their boar shooting movie, and that Pat Lefemine used in "Beyond Adrenaline".
Amen, Robtattoo. It's almost as bad as Rap. Now Skynyrd, Allman Bros., Outlaws, Marshall Tucker- thats country music.
I will listen to anything except rap and opera.
Leo Kottke is an old favorite, and I listen to a lot of stuff that most folks have never heard of. My collection of vinyl (yes... vinyl. Even most of my music is in a "trad" format!) is best described as eclectic.
I did get an iPod. First things I downloaded were all of Beethoven's symphonies and a disk of old recordings of traditional Native American songs. I shuffle them up here and there, and it is kinda funny going from Eroica to an Apache song of the Mountain Spirits.
Killdeer
Man I love country music, mainly the older stuff like Bobby Bare, George Jones, Merle Haggard. I do like some new artist but country music dont sound to country to me anymore, I think there just trying to sell singles rather than wright real songs. Today's country I like George strait and Alan Jackson.
I like everything, but alt country,and outlaw country are among my favorites....
I have a very eclectic taste in music I listen to everything from Classical to Hard Rock.
But my old favorite and what I listen to most (especially when traveling) is Bluegrass.
I do prefer older Country, Merle, Willie,Marty Robbins,etc.
Caio Feliciano,
Country is easy to understand; some has wildness to it. It is Traditional American while bow hunting is not exclusively American. Country music does touch American roots as Traditional Archery touches Archery roots. I can see how the two would go together for many people.
I like alternative rock, well most alternative rock. I grew up on Southern rock and what we call today Classic rock. I listened to Country for about ten years then had kids that listen to Alternative and RAP. I don't get RAP. I call it cRAP.
In the end, we all listen to what we like. We say to ourselves about the music "Te Amo" because we love it; much in the same way as Traditional Archery.
I hope I am using the phrase correctly. No one in my family speaks Italian any longer. But I take Te Amo to mean more then just loving something. It is very personal deep felt feeling and thought.
Martin
It was all
that I could do
to keep from cryin'.....
I used to know just about every rock and roll and top 40 song from the middle 50's to the early 70's. Still remember a lot of it. I guess that's just my bag. Odd thing though is that when I do try to sing it comes out sounding country. For a guy that does not claim to be a big country fan, I do get a lot of jabs from my friends, because I just also happen to know a whole lot of the country songs. Maybe that's just a Southern thing. Do you actually listen to music while in the stand?
I like most country & bluegrass, but I try to avoid "Dueling Banjos" when I'm preparing for a bowhunt. :) Clint
AC/DC
Tater I'm with you. Love Traditional Country and Bluegrass best. I would also most associate it with Bowhunting or any outdoor activities.
I'm not sure that I relate any particular style of music with traditional archery. But my initial thought is that if I did it would undoubtedly have to be accoustic. I mean if you think about it, the electric guitar as an invention is not all that much older than the compound bow (and it changed the face of music every bit as much as the compound did archery). I'm also pretty sure that there are plenty of guitar players out there that love and prefer their beautiful wood guitars every bit as much as we do our wood longbows and recurves.
That said, I personally love rock and blues. Electric and loud works for me.
Rock and Roll all the way for me. Country is to much like pop anymore. Wheres Uncle Ted when you need him. He can rock a song about Fred Bear. It don't get more traditional archery then that!!!
"I was country when country wasn't cool"
I like all kinds and I sing all kinds.
I will listen to anything thats good.
I can't stand anything Ted nugent does.That guy just annoys me to death even the way he talks...lol
reddogge listen to some Jamie Johnson its about as close to real country music as you can get. Sounds a little like waylon
I hesitated about posting on this subject, but I just can't help myself. You see I sing about traditional bowhunting in my songs. I spent 25 years in Nashville hanging around places like tootsies and the blue bird cafe to learn the craft of songwriting. When I was younger, I spent time hanging around people like Waylon,Tom T. Hall, Bobby Bare and countless songwriters.
On one of the forums the other day some of you were blasting music on hunting videos. My music is on a lot of hunting videos, including Gene and Barry's "Spirit of the Bow". Recently I sat in Caribou Camp and watched tears flow down the faces of Bob Foulkrod and Alaine Tarrdif as I sang a song Called "the Leaf River Herd" which will be on my next CD. Personally, I don't trust people who don't like music. You see, you listen to music with your heart, not your ears. Could be that if you don't like music, you don't have a heart and just don't understand the romance of archery. My perspective. JB
I like "good music"...that comes in all types...except opera and rap (I'm with you on that Killie). But I do love the old days of western music and bluegrass. Bluegrass lifts my spirit and makes my feet move...well if I could dance they'd move..haha
I enjoy lots of music genres, but old time/bluegrass seem to come to the top for me. I like lots of country; some of the 'new' stuff sung by people like Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith is good to my ear. I listen to outlaw country, cajun, southern rock, and delta blues. Lots of good music out there, but when I'm bowhunting, I'm listening to sounds of Mother Nature. When I get back in the truck, it will be tuned to either a country station or an old time CD. CDs in my truck right now are the Outlaws (Willie, Waylon, etc), Jimmy Rogers, Reeltime Travelers, Lynryd Skynryd, Robert Johnson, and Ralph Stanley. It's all good.
I'm a die hard "traditional" country music listener. Most of the newer, so-called "country" music is nothing but modern pop music. I will say that Josh Turner and Jamey Johnson are carrying on the sound of country music. George Strait and the late Chris LeDoux are two of my favorites.
I also listen to a lot of bluegrass, folk, and big-band era classics. When I hear a good big-band song, I visualize myself on the edge of a river with an old 30s truck parked near the riverbank making coffee over a campfire, just sitting there watching the autumn leaves slowing making their way to their final resting spot.
Most of the newer music in my opinion is nothing but noise. These artists just get paid for their voice, nothing about their song writing capabilities.
BTW...Chad Slagle has to be my favorite. His song "High, Wild, and Free" tells a story and I just visualize the whole story in my head.
I like all kinds of music and listen to just about everything except for the 50's and some 60's music and that hard rap crap, but like me some hip hop every now and then and current music, even some alternative stuff, but mostly I listen to classic rock or country now, but for some reason I really like some of Colt Ford lately, listen to "Cricket on a line" sometime!
QuoteCould be that if you don't like music, you don't have a heart and just don't understand the romance of archery.
Possible? Yes
Probable? No
On my first out of state bowhunting trip, My Dad and I listed to Flatt and Scruggs almost the whole trip. I cannot hear some of their songs without thinking about that trip. So I guess bluegrass and bowhunting go hand in hand to me too. My favorite being bluegrass gospel.
My Dad is not able to go on those trips anymore, so those memories mean alot.
God Bless,
Nathan
Jazz, the one uniquely American music form ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwQ_zeRwEs
HEAVY METAL is traditional bd
crap on all tha "the best thing thats ever been mine" and "farmers daughters" i wanna hear TED NUGENT or Rebel Son(666 pack of beer).
No country, Aerosmith, pot metal bands or rap for me.
It's fall, gothic and gothic/metal/alt seems about right.
Type O Negative a fave.
Can't stand "Uncle Ted".
Will say Ministry blasting in the Jeep had myself and my hunting bud pretty wound up by the time we got to the woods :)
JB, sounds like you are a songwriter/musician.
That might be a bit different than a musician/songwriter or just musician.
Music can hit people in three places:
The brain
The heart
and the crotch.
What area(s) (alone or in combination), that is determined by how one tunes their own ears (and that tuning can be influenced by quite a few variables.
Personally I can't stand country music, old or new.
And I have a pretty good "heart".
Felix,You would like Saskatchewan,Best deer hunting in the World and Country Music to Boot! LOL.Heck I'm starting to sound like a Texan!
Steve, when you described your method of hunting on my Ambush thread, I got a mental image of you crawling around on your belly, Ambush bow in hand, putting the Sneak on one of those big Sask. bucks. Now I know what music to back it up with. I'm speeding up the image, laying some good fast Bluegrass over it, and thinking "Benny Hill". Lol!
I do like the new Country is it bad?
Toby Keith, Brad Pasiley, Brooks&Dunn, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson.
I will download Chad K. Slagle now, any other suggestion to my Otdoor/Country playlist ?
So much of the new stuff has lyrics that are better suited and better enjoyed by a 12 year old girl with her first crush on a boy. I write some country music and cannot stand all of the juvenile stuff. For me Julian Bream or Segovia is more the music of the natural world. Harsh electronics and songs about aching hearts and jealous groins, just don't do it for me. "My truck left me for another, and my hearts broke in two, etc. etc." Now this guy was good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMHJX4b9bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEU7Ly8aY0U&feature=related
"Now this guy was good" :eek: :eek: :biglaugh:
Pon, Mark Baker, who is a member here is a very gifted muscician. I got his music on 3Rivers in the past, and I believe he has a website. Try a search. Jim Bowman, who is also a member and has posted on this thread is also excellent. I got his on 3rivers too. I found an album by a guy from Texas a couple years ago named Steve Shedd. He is very good and I enjoy his music, it's all about hunting (mostly Trad), and other outdoor themes. I especially like one named "Bowhunter's Blues". His album is called "Gone Huntin'". Here's a link to his site.
http://steveshedd.com/index.html
Those are the only ones I know hunting related, but if anyone can tip me off to someone else I'd be forever in your debt.
Still giggling over "jealous groins". :cool:
That guy WAS good! Oh, and he beats Tiny Tim all hollow.
Killdeer :thumbsup:
Thanks Danny! I will start searching
Pavan, thanks for the links, those were very cool vids. Got me smiling. :bigsmyl:
Singer song writers like James Taylor and others have long held Nick Lucas to be best ever. In some musical circles, he has the stature that Hill has in archery. But then james or Nick don't have a 180 class whitetail mount on the wall, that was taken by 8 straight days of stalking and still hunting with a longbow for just the one buck, like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrNadienne#p/a/u/0/ThGv1tXDxn0
Just so I don't pigeon hole myself I looked through my CDs and came up with some wierd ones maybe some would enjoy or hate (Some aren't country):
Norman Blake
Doc Watson
Ry Cooder's "The Longriders" soundtrack
Bob Dylan "Modern Times"
Johnny Cash's last stuff recorded "Amerian V A Hundred Highways"
Tim O'Brien "Songs from the Mountains"
"Old Time Reunioun" fiddle tunes various.
Andre Bocelli "Romanza"
Eric Clapton "Unplugged"
Danny,LOL! You are so right years ago when I was a skinny guy I would just push with my toes to move forward,now I sorta rock back and forth.My son says my low crawling profile reminds him of " A Shrub".You are so right on the Benny Hill thing.I thinks I'm just going to get one of those new Big Jim Blinds and pretend to be a brush Pile.It would sure be easier!LOL
Steve, I was waiting for you to come around to check this thread. Lol! On the Zipper site there is a video of a guy chasing Armadillos. The video is sped-up with a good music background. It's very funny. I pictured you crawling, but at fast speed with some blazing Bluegrass playing. I didn't know how big a fella you are, but your description makes it even better. I spend way too much time alone, obviously! Hey, playing a Shrub sounds interesting. Even I might be able to pull that off.