Music that enhances?

[Ligermeat]

I consider Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds to be an essential kava listen. It's fantastic for smoothing things out if your feeling a little edgy.

 

[Ligermeat]

I was also under the impression today that "A saucer full of secrets" by pink Floyd would have been a nice krunk listen.

I was dead wrong. That crap made me frickin' paranoid!

"The piper at the gates of dawn" would probably be a much more kava friendly experience.

 

[Groggy]

It doesn't just have to be quirky or mellow for me, for it to be good kava music, put some Metallica or Nine inch nails on and will be equally content.

 

[boxcar beatnik]

Incubus - make yourself album. Sun house/muddy waters.... any good delta blues. Especially blues fusion
like psychedelic blues/jazz mix. Galactic is great.

 

[verticity]

Flatpick bluegrass guitar like Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Doc Watson, Clarence White and the Kentucky Colonels (they where a big influence on Jerry, long before the Dead).

I still like Floyd, Zeppelin etc. all the way up to early 90s grunge. Can't say I listen to recent music at all, kava or not. I'm an old fogey

Beautiful song:

 

[verticity]

Interestingly, the melody of "Shady Grove", which is a traditional Appalachian folk song, originates from the traditional British folk song "Matty Groves" which tells a rather different story (this is obviously not a traditional arrangement but more folk-prog-rock):

 

[yardcat]

Beautiful song:

Doc could play the banjo almost as well as the guitar. Other good versions of that tune are on the Doc and Dawg album with David Grissman and another version on The Pizza Tapes with Tony Rice, David Grissman and Jerry Garcia. Strange story behind that album, I think it's still free on Amazon Prime, at least it was.

 

[verticity]

Doc could play the banjo almost as well as the guitar. Other good versions of that tune are on the Doc and Dawg album with David Grissman and another version on The Pizza Tapes with Tony Rice, David Grissman and Jerry Garcia. Strange story behind that album, I think it's still free on Amazon Prime, at least it was.

"almost" as well? That's some pretty amazing banjo playing there.
Actually I hear both banjo and guitar on that; I'm not sure who is playing what.

 

[yardcat]

"almost" as well? That's some pretty amazing banjo playing there.
Actually I hear both banjo and guitar on that; I'm not sure who is playing what.

No doubt, he's just known for pretty much creating the flatpick fiddle tune on guitar sound that influenced so many after him.

 

[Nova Cain]

Heavy Horses is a great record. In this song, Ian Anderson describes the various places he will "make love to you", but manages to make it sound like soaring folk rock, rather than like some creep describing the various places he will make love to you.

I love love love this song