Music help

[horsemom]

I love my iPod for plane trips and gym workouts, but am getting tired of my 116 songs. It has a ton more room, but I don't know what to put on it. I go through iTunes, but keep getting attracted to the music I already have, and to go through randomly is tiring and time consuming. Soooo, I am looking for suggestions for new music. I like easy rock, country, and some folk type. I have Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Amanda Marshall, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Colin Ray, Chicago, Billy Joel among others. I am 46 if that helps, and not crazy about repetitive and loud, but willing to think about stuff that will get me moving.

Any ideas?

Laura

[TsPoet]

I love my iPod for plane trips and gym workouts, but am getting tired of my 116 songs. It has a ton more room, but I don't know what to put on it. I go through iTunes, but keep getting attracted to the music I already have, and to go through randomly is tiring and time consuming. Soooo, I am looking for suggestions for new music. I like easy rock, country, and some folk type. I have Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Amanda Marshall, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Colin Ray, Chicago, Billy Joel among others. I am 46 if that helps, and not crazy about repetitive and loud, but willing to think about stuff that will get me moving.

Any ideas?

Laura

I got 2 for you
1) Pandora.com - I LOVE this site. It makes a "radio station" for you based on an artist(s) you select. It has cost me a great deal of money. It's free, unless you don't want to see the advertisements, then it costs. I listen to this at work when I'm data crunching, and jump up and write down new artists that intrigue me to buy later.
2) Towerrecords.com - if you search on the artist you like, they give a list of "similar" artists down the side of the screen.

Good luck,

[Kitsune06]

To get you moving, I suggest House, Electronic and Dance, like DJ Hell, Miss Kittin, Paul Oakenfold and Digweed. Miss Kittin is getting a lot better as she gets older, going from hard, fast, loud techno to musical artpieces that flow quite well without losing that pulselike thump. "Percolator" works well. My favorite on her latest Day and Night cd.

Other music I'd suggest given your selection is Morphine, Tom Waits and Melissa Etheridge.

[Pedal Wench]

Along the lines of what you seem to like, I would suggest:

John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Ray LaMontagne
KT Tunstall
Gomez

[five one]

Shameless plug for an SF Bay Area singer/songwriter. Jeff Larson. Some of his more recent music is available on iTunes.

[Grog]

Jack Johnson?

Norah Jones?

[guanajagirl]

Use itunes to find artist that you like one or two songs and listen to their album. You may discover some songs that you havent heard from your favorite people. Also iTunes will " if you enjoyed this you may also like some of this..." Check out the soundtracks to your fav. movies and tv shows too. I find new stuff that was alot

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

These are two friends of mine- they sing SO beautifully with incredible harmonies, and they write some of their songs while other things they perform are traditional:
http://lonesomesisters.com/
if you click to their cd's there will be links there so you can hear clips of some of their songs for free. You might like them.