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What’s your favorite road trip music?

posted by Joanne Brokaw | 8:14am Tuesday June 24, 2008

Become-Cover.jpgLast Friday marked the first day of summer and before long many of us will hit the road for a summer vacation (if gas prices don’t continue skyrocket, that is!).
So let’s take a little survey:
If you were taking a summer road trip, what music would you absolutely have to have in your CD player or iPod?
I usually take new music to listen to on long car rides, but I always have a lot of tried and true music with me, too, like Switchfoot’s The Beautiful Letdown, Mainstay’s Well Meaning Fiction and their newest, Become Who You Are, Mutemath’s Reset, Ever Stays Red’s first album, and Jeremy Camp’s Restored. (On the non-Christian front, I also have Jim Croce’s Photographs and Memories, Earth Wind and Fire’s Greatest Hits, and Norah Jones’s Come Away With Me.)
If I got in the car today, though, I’d definitely throw in new music from all of those artists, plus Shawn McDonald’s Roots, Article One’s Colors and Sounds, and Destination 7′s Wait For The Sun.
So how about you? What’s your favorite road trip music?



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Dee

posted June 24, 2008 at 10:55 am


Definitely need some Led Zeppelin to get through long car trips.



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Dave Weiss

posted June 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm


DC Talk Jesus Freak or Intermission, The aforementioned Beautiful Letdown, some hillsong united worship stuff, hairbands from the 80s and prog rock.



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latrice

posted June 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm


because i love music and listen to just about everything, i’d probably just get a c.d. that has a whole bunch of hits on it!



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joeface ~ peoplehelpingpeople.us

posted June 25, 2008 at 2:39 pm


I always have a few self made cd’s with good upbeat positive sounds to keep me in good thought without breaking my attention to good driving skills



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amadeus

posted June 25, 2008 at 3:32 pm


I would take my Omega album. She is a world music/gospel artist with some hints of Jazz. Her music really puts me in a good mood and gives me energy. its perfect for a long road trip.
check her out at http://www.omegaworldmusic.com



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William T. Masonis

posted June 25, 2008 at 5:53 pm


Generally, I put in a fair amount of live recordings of the Grateful Dead, ’cause I’ve got a lot of that. Also, however, I find a wide variety of folk music appealing, as well as occaisional classical works. That doesn’t exclude straight rock n’ roll, either. I’m pretty much a true eclectic, I guess.



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Diana Legg

posted June 25, 2008 at 8:45 pm


If I were on the road I would definitely take along my cd “Celtic Woman a New Journey; I would also take some old folk music I cherish by Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson (Who could leave out such classic road songs as Me and Bobby Mcgee!!) Judy Collins, John Denver, plus a few special tapes of Celtic and Country tunes that my wonderful uncle put together for me from his musical collection



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Valky92

posted June 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm


Our fav is anything by Ray Stevens. He is ‘safe’ for the kids, silly at times, good upbeat music.



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jerome thailing

posted June 30, 2008 at 4:36 pm


Road trip music? How shall I count the ways? Definitely start with Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven, The City from Mark-Almand, Poinciana from Ahmad Jamal, In the Air Tonight from Phil Collins….then there’s Lightfoot, Moody Blues, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Crosby-Stills-Nash, the Eagles, Beatles, Fleetwood, Heart, Simon-Garfunkel, Neil Diamond…and on and on and on. These are just some of the strands of my musical DNA. When do we get on the road…and does it really matter where we’re going? Arizonajerome



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