> Nods in the direction of Mr Helliwell and friends >
In an age where most of us have some form of audio on demand in our motors, and aren't restricted to whatever cack you can find on the radio at two in the morning, what do you listen to on the way home? For years I have had a radio with USB capability, and when I get bored witless by what's on it, I wipe it and start again.
I recently did this, and as I wended my weary way home this morning was listening to the newly filled stick. I have fairly eclectic musical tastes, and with around seven hundred tracks currently on the stick, it's interesting seeing what comes up next. Nothing too left field had come up, until I realised the delicate and haunting fretwork of Ian Fraser Kilmister's guitar. ( Shame on you if you have to Google that. )
Yes, a spot of Hawkwind at their trippy best. It doesn't get much more Rock and Roll than driving through the inky black countryside with Sonic Attack, and Silver Machine playing loud, with the dials round to eleven
So, what's on your music player as you wind down after a gig? Currently on mine is some Folk, electric and more acoustic, courtesy of Steeleye Span, Richard and Linda Thompson, Joni Mitchell, and Fairport Convention.
Country Rock, Eagles, Outlaws, Poco, Lady Antebellum, and the wonderful Mary-Chapin Carpenter.
Rock? CCR, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Zeppelin, Heart, Joe Walsh and Bob Seger.
Singer songwriters, Gordon Lightfoot, Clifford T Ward, Kirsty MacColl, and Warren Zevon.
There's usually The Tain by Horslips in there somewhere, Rod Stewart, Dave Edmunds, and whatever takes my fancy at the time.
What's on yours?