Fishin' Music

[FishinCricket]

for that as well. About the only thing I don't like is rap (sorry cricket).

No worries, Greg.. It's sometimes a difficult art form to defend.. Usually the wife will look over (after some particularly raunchy and/or crappy lyrics) and say "And you like this stuff?" to which my response is honestly "No, not that stuff..."

I'm sure you won't know or care about the particulars, but my specific rap of choice is stuff from the "Gfunk Era" of rap.. "Where the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble" ... It's a melodic variation of rap and it's much more appreciable that some of the crap that passes for rap in some circles...

Let me get a new trolling motor for my jet boat and we'll go. You won't have to be face down butt up in my boat. Maybe smallie can go with us

Lord, I'm starting to worry about you boys... I already decided, if I get to go fishing with any of you, I'm carrying my taser and a sharp knife.. lol

You let me know, I can't say my schedules open, but I got a feeling I would truly enjoy a fishing trip with you, Mitch...

[OzarksRiverman]

Usually it would be the southern rock mix for me (Marshall Tucker, Skynyrd, OMD, etc....), but recently I've been listening to Blitzen Trapper, Deer Tick, Band of Horses. They're sort of Indie-throwbacks to the 70's country rock bands (with less fiddle).

[eric1978]

His work with the Eagles.

Neil Young and the Eagles? You're gonna have to fill me in...that'd be news to me.

[flytyer57]

Neil Young and the Eagles? You're gonna have to fill me in...that'd be news to me.

You are correct. I was thinking of Joe Walsh. Sorry.

[Wheatenheimer]

Allman Bros band, neil young, skynyrd, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Sam Bush (great bluegrass), Yonder Mountain, Prine, Charlie Daniels, Greg Brown.

Oh, yes! Greg Brown. One of my favorites! If any of you do not know Greg Brown.....do yourself a favor and check him out!

I've seen him a few times live and he is propably the most insightful songwriter of the last 30 years. And a flyfisherman to boot!

"In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell in it and it makes me want to cry. To clean our dirty planet, there's a noble wish. And I'm puttin' shoulder to the wheel, cause I wanna catch some fish!"

[Justin Spencer]

Saw Big Smith last Saturday night at the Old Rock House. Great and very talented band, excellent songwriting.

Big Smith has to be at the top of the list, great Ozarks band, we had them here at Sunburst this June and everyone loved them. Cruising through the hills listening to Big Smith is the only way to travel. If you haven't listened to them give them a chance, the more you listen the better they get. You owe it to yourself to see them live also! They hit Silver Dollar City and Music festivals, Hammonds Center, but the best place is at a little bar in a college town.

Another artist to check out is JJ Grey and Mofro, great Florida band you should check out!

If you really want to put it to the fish don't forget Motley Crue or you can go gangsta and drop some Snoop or Dr. Dre on their a@@.

[FishinCricket]

If you really want to put it to the fish don't forget Motley Crue or you can go gangsta and drop some Snoop or Dr. Dre on their a@@.

Nah, that's bull.. The fish don't respond well to snoop.. Something about the baseline, or maybe it's the stench of the stanky dank that's off-putting...

[Justin Spencer]

Something about the baseline, or maybe it's the stench of the stanky dank that's off-putting...

I beg to differ the baseline if turned up loud enough works like dynamite, and the stanky dank is good for catfish.

[FishinCricket]

I beg to differ the baseline if turned up loud enough works like dynamite, and the stanky dank is good for catfish.

Well played, Master Spencer..

[Al Agnew]

Dirty Ed, who was active in the now defunct Riversmallies message boards, has three really nice CDs, one of them pretty much all songs about running rivers. I've been listening to them while heading to the river ever since I got them from him at the New River rodeo last summer.

Other than that, give me Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the two Circle Be Unbroken albums by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and I'm happy on the way.

I listen to a lot of oldies (because they were newies when I first heard them, making me an oldie, I guess) but driving home from the river, oldies put me in a melancholy mood, lost youth and all that. I'd rather listen to some stupid talk radio, or a baseball game on the radio, or NPR. If it's a long drive, I often just scan through the radio channels until I find something interesting. One time I came upon a station that was playing a really funny song...only part of it I still remember is:

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me

Than to have to get a frontal lobotomy.

Here's one Dirty Ed sang...I don't think I have all the words right but it's the general idea anyway:

We had some chickens, that laid no eggs

Had some chickens, that laid no eggs.

My wife said, "Honey, we're losin' money

'Cause our chickens ain't layin' no eggs.

But then a rooster came into our yard,

Caught those chickens right off their guard.

Now we got eggs, by the carton,

Since that rooster came into our yard.

Had a milk cow that gave no milk,

Had a milk cow that gave no milk.

Wife said, "Honey, we're losing money,

'Cause our milk cow don't give no milk."

But then that rooster came into our yard,

Caught that milk cow right off her guard.

Now we got eggnog, in glass bottles

Since that rooster came into our yard.

We had a fruit tree that bore no fruit.

Had a fruit tree that bore no fruit.

My wife said, "Honey, we're losin' money,

'Cause our fruit tree don't bear no fruit."

But then that rooster came into our yard,

Caught that fruit tree right off its guard.

Now we got eggplant, all wrapped in plastic,

Since that rooster came into our yard.

Had a gum machine, that gave no gum.

Had a gum machine that gave no gum.

Wife said, "Honey, we're losin' money,

'Cause our gum machine don't give no gum.

But then that rooster came into our yard,

Caught that gum machine right off its guard.

Now we got Chiclets, in cardboard boxes,

Since that rooster came into our yard.

But then that rooster became gay.

Yes that rooster done turned gay!

Wife said, "Honey, we're losin' money,

Since that ol' rooster done turned gay."

But then a new chicken came into our yard,

Caught that rooster right off its guard.

Now that rooster's laying chickens,

Since that chicken came into our yard!