"Long Time Gone by the Dixe Chicks" (originally written by Darrell Scott) [SIZE=-1]www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4NTn3Pn05A[/SIZE]
Here ya go... dig that slap bass at 1:24. http://youtube.com/watch?v=lnO-oLYiOM4&feature=related My 'rewrite'... Well, the brakes aint crap, shes hard to steer. She tops about 40, no passing gear. Well, we picked her up, me and Schmidt. When the weather turns cold, she runs like... bad. Shes the old Chebbie pick up from Chattanooga Tennessee... Shes the old Chebbie pick up from Chattanooga Tennessee.
gotta luv some Jr. Brown!!! <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gQWPeCDTiUA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gQWPeCDTiUA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
"Highway- Radar Love by Golden Earring is good. City- Tough to beat ZZ Top's I'm bad, I'm Nationwide or La Grange Flatman" Nice choices.
A few more good ones: Dick Dale: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8 Deep Purple Highway Star: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4FjBylFNA6k Ray Charles What'd I Say: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n9h77KzF2iY Springsteen Cadillac Ranch: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuKjs7GxlGQ
Here's an older huge post on this. Enjoy! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135345&highlight=favorite+hot+rod+song
More than one favorite but here's a few at the top, Nelson Riddle's Route 66 theme, Sting ray by the Routers is a biggy, Four in the floor by The Shutdowns, Led Sled by Denny Freeman, and just about any thing from Dick dale, Brian Setzer, Chuck Berry. Gene Vincent or Duane Eddy. Then there's rolling From the Wreckage by Dave Edmonds. Then there's Eric Burdon and the......................
if I'm out in an old car it's got to be the blues, or bluesy rock. Stevie Ray Vaughn and brother Jimmy... Smokin Joe Kubek ... Albert King.... Tommy Castro ... on and on. ZZ top too as for Booker T and the MG's.... if green onion comes on and I'm in a V8 car at a stoplight there better be a long unobstructed stretch of pavement in front of me that's all I got to say!!
The Distance http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMh2Ho346c Plastic Jesus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oZH4_mHkoOY -Jeff
wild in the streets. the circle jerks. funk 49 mountin jam bye the allman brother band and anything sublime
Little GTO Ronnie and the Datonas Lowrider War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGkE5g7_jAg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44kg0IENTPU
Rory Gallagher - Messin With The Kid or Garbageman (BBC) Junior Brown - Hill Country Hot Rod Man or Freedom Machine Southern Culture on the Skids - Voodoo Cadillac, Mojo Box or Shotgun Robin Trower - Whiskey Train Honky - Love to Smoke Your Weed(and I don't smoke!) Jeff Beck - Drown in my own Tears ZZ Top - Master of Sparks Dave Alvin - 11 Months & 29 Days Several songs by Danny Gatton, Bill Kirchen, Link Wray or Deke Dickerson
Rory Gallagher 1974 Irish Tour, Calling Card, Montreaux Jazz Festival Collection. Really anything he has done, especially live. Robin Trower Any of his Jimmy Vaughn, any band he has remotely associated with. SRV JJ Cale Charlie Robison, Life of The Party X -1987 See How We Are Anne McCue Tony Joe White George Thorogood Junior Brown Anything McHendree Spring 3 Del McCoury The Ozark Mountain Daredevils- Car Over The Lake, and Men From Earth
Wow, somebody listed Honkey: ZZ Topp mets AC/DC How about "I got it" - Little Richard Various: The Cramps, Los Straightjackets, The Ventures, The Paladins, Hollywood Fats, Doug Sahm The crank spinnin' a 6 grand isn't too bad either
Stray Cats; Built for Speed, Switchblade 327 Eddie Cochran; Something Else Loyd Price; Just Because Social Distortion; anything by them!!!!
MUSTANG SALLY The Wilson Picket version. It kept bouncin' around in my head as i rode my Felt SR-91 bicycle from Key West Florida to Canada in February. The tempo matched my pedal cadence perfectly. (1768 miles in 31 days) When I'm in the staging lanes all suited up and ready to fire my altered roadster drag car up I like to sing "Too Much Time On My Hands" by Styx to psyche me up. Also, before I go drag racing I like to hear "Tocatta and Fugue in D-Minor" by J.S. Bach. as a visualization technique.
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