Racing Music

Don't ya think we ought to get a song list of tunes together to play while driving to Shelby?

Here's one that comes to mind:

Racing at Royall Speedway - Richmond, VA - 1951 - Crazy Joe Maphis

Little Joe Jernigan, Runt Harris, Sonny Hutchins, Cal Johnson, Buddy Shuman, The "Whale" and more...

PK... THAT's a heck of an idea.... a bus to Shelby!!! Hmmmm...

I found the perfect bus.....

http://www.thebarbecuebus.com/

Well..............

How 'bout one of these buses??

yessir

Road trip? Used to be - I'm game, let's roll! Now, I'm more like "well, I'll think about it." But here are some tunes to take along culled from my Coke 600 weekend play list:

Bristol Nights - Whiskey Falls
Go Faster - Black Crowes
Pocono Joe - Mark Miklos ( YouTube )
Tailgate Party - Whiskey Falls
Oh Atlanta - Little Feat
Left Y'all In The Dust (NASCAR song) - Colt Ford
Indianapolis - The Bottle Rockets
Talladega Shuffle - The Backstretch Boys
The Skilled 43 - Crew Chiefs
20th Century Drifter - Marty Robbins
NASCAR Superstar - Haven Quint
I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall
The Talladega Song - Tim Wilson
Rednecks White Socks And Blue Ribbon Beer - Johnny Russell
Down in Hueytown - Hank Williams Jr.
Richard Petty Blues - Al Tackett
Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
Darlington - Ron Pestana
Dale Darrell Waltrip Richard Petty - Tim Wilson
You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
I Love My NASCAR Weekends - J-Henry
I Love NASCAR - Cledus T. Judd
Darlington County - Bruce Springsteen
Five O'Clock 500 - Alabama
The Ward Burton Train - Tim Wilson

Martinsville by Monte Dutton

Seeing Springsteen's "Darlington County" on your playlist brought back an old memory.

Sometime between 1984-1986, I awoke in Dallas, TX one morning to see a big photo of Bruce Springsteen on the front page of the Dallas Morning News. He was wearing a "Darlington - Too Tough to Tame" ball cap given to him by Tim Richmond.

Memories.

Being a old yankee and a big Canadian rock band Rush fan I was raised on rock and on RUSH, this tune has the sound of pistons pumpin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHxNT7Dw0U

JW - I'll ditto that. I'm more a fan of singer-songwriter / alternative-country music these days. But I've always dug Rush. Saw them 2x over 6 months in late 2010-early 2011.

Alex - Neil - Geddy

LOL. Gotta say you may be on to something. But considering I can't even carry a tune in a bucket, I give him full marks for his interest, effort, commitment and passion. We've had a good time w/him at our 600 tailgating event the last 3 years - swapping race stories and listening to his music - plenty of his originals + several covers. Each year, our crew asks me if Monte is returning ... to tell more stories.

Altrighty then, another RUSH fan, I can dig it

Another one I've come to enjoy is Race Car Joe written by Adam Carroll. This cover is by Slaid Cleaves. Not the rowdiest song, so it generally doesn't get added to the race weekend playlist - but I do listen to it individually on my way to a race.

And speaking of Slaid Cleaves, here is another one of his that resonates with me: Horseshoe Lounge. He wrote it about a bar in Texas. But I've always related it to a little hole-in-the wall in Johnson City TN - not too far from Bristol. For a long time, it was Casey's Horseshoe Lounge and later it became McCreary's HSL. They billed themselves as having the "best damn burgers in Johnson City". The place was a race-themed bar with all the booths named after a different driver and memorabilia of the driver on the wall above the booth. Many memorable stories came from our visits to the Horseshoe in the early 90s.

The song has a line that references peeling the labels off a Miller Lite. One time when a bud and I were there, we decided to have some fun with the waitress. We ordered two Miller High Lifes. But we told her we were mad at Miller for having dropped Bobby Allison after his career-ending Pocono wreck & didn't want to be seen supporting them. We asked her to bring us 2 nekkid Miller bottles. It seemed to take a while for her to return. But then we laughed as we looked towards the bar. She was using a table knife to scrape the labels off the 2 bottles. Yes - we tipped her generously.

heres a version of rapid roy live w a cool lil prelude

And when some classic CDB cranks up, its time for the party to begin...