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#1 ·
I'm making a playlist of songs that have something to do with fishing, but I need some help. My rules are they have to have something to do with fishing, and they have to be halfway decent songs that you can listen to a bunch of times:

Here's what I got so far, in no particular order:

1- Woodie Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliot- Talking Fishing Blues
2- Bruce Springsteen- The River (no fishing I know, but a place you could no doubt fish if you wanted to)
3- Otis Redding- Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay (as for above #2)
4- Bob Dylan- Hurricane (he mentions trout streams)
5- The Waterboys- Fisherman's Blues
6- Tom Waits- Better off without a wife
7- Fish Man Blues- Memphis minnie
8- River's Rising- Leftover Salmon
9- Three Reels- Dordan
10- Green River- Creedence Clearwater Revival
11- Ol Man River- Paul Robeson
12- The River- PJ Harvey
13- Silverfish- Belly
14- In the Pines- Leadbelly (yeah I know, It's not about fishing... it's about camping)
15- Five feet high and rising - Johnny Cash
16 King tubby meets rockers uptown- king tubby and Augustus Pablo (there's nothing about Tubby that has anything to do with fishing except it puts me in the mood)
 
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#102 ·
My favorite steelheading song and the next ten that come up on shuffle.

"Damn that river" - Alice in Chains
"Highway Song" -Blackfoot
"Great White Buffalo" - Ted Nugent
"Peter Piper" -Run Dmc
"One" - Metallica
"Rat in a Cage" -Smashing Pumpkins
"Golden Years" -David Bowie
"Sober" -Tool
"Careless Whisper" -Seether
"Criminal" -Fiona Apple
"5 nation army" -White Stripes

My favorite fishing themed CD is "From the muddy banks of the Wishkah" - Nirvana
 
#107 ·
I thought it important to add two songs to your "fishing list". Both are from "Troll for Trout".

The first song is "The River Song" (Opener Song) that is about the long winter and daydreaming of the last Saturday in April (opening weekend here in Michigan for trout season). Way cool song.

The second is not entirely about fishing, but it is all about the reason we all fish. It is called "Rancho Relaxo".

Check them out on iTunes. Will be a sure bet addition to your fishing list.

Thanks for all the posts as I've now added many more to my ipod for the long trips north to the trout stream in the summer!!!

JP
 
#112 ·
Crystal by Stevie Nicks
Practical Magic soundtrack (1998)

Do you always trust your first initial feeling
Special knowledge holds truth bears believing
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew
In the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me thru the mountains
Thru the crystal-like clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet
To the sea


How the faces of love have changed turning
the pages
And I have changed oh, but you...you remain
ageless
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew
In the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me thru the mountains
Thru the crystal-like clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet
To the sea
 
#114 ·
OK... I'm going to invite the hate, heat and flames...:clown:

Billy Joel's "The Downeaster "Alexa"



(Also: Been mentioned but "Fisherman Blues" by the Waterboys is classic. JJ Cale/Eric Clapton's song "Ride the River" makes me want to chuck everything and jump in my drift boat every time I hear it.)
 
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