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Travel Music

Sorry about that gap – back from a very long weekend in San Francisco. Most places I go manage to generate their own playlists, but I’ve definitely developed a playlist that – while slowly evolving – is native to the aircraft cabin. Some of my favorites from that list:

  • I’m not sure why, but I love Brazilian Girls’ Don’t Stop. Please, do *not* watch the video. Just turn off the monitor and dig the music.
  • Roger Miller’s classic King of the Road.
  • And finally, one of my favorite tracks in the world.

I’m linking YouTube videos because that’s about the only place where you can reliably find music tracks that are easy to access and directly linkable. Sure would be nice if some place like Last.fm could step up and provide an alternative.

Oh, and while I’m on about music, I happened upon my new favorite artist of the moment at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival – Dan Reeder. His site is here, and you can check out a few tracks of his music here. He links iTunes, but you can get his albums at Amazon’s new MP3 service (which also includes clips of everything – try Three Chords). I bought everything he’s released.

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2 Comments

  1. I’m getting the Brazilian Girls song for the “favorite tracks” link — is that supposed to be a different video?

  2. MB

    Ah, thanks for pointing that out. No, it’s supposed to be Miriam Makeba’s “Pata Pata”. Updated with the right link.

    (This post was a mess – I originally tried to embed the videos, and for reasons I don’t understand, that always makes a mess of things here.)

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