Workout Playlist

I’m watching season two of NCIS (the one where McGee comes on board and Kate gets whacked) on DVD during my exercise bike workouts. My usual workout is 45 minutes plus cool-down and each episode is a bit shorter than that, so I often either ride in silence for a few minutes or put on my headphones and listen to my iPod. This morning, however, I got engrossed in the music and never switched over to the TV.

Now, I realize that song lists are generally pretentious and/or boring to readers, because the poster is probably trying to communicate how cool or open-minded or sensitive he is by the music he chooses. But, mine is the exception. Really.

1. Jump the Blues – Wayne Hancock (rockabilly-meets-western swing featuring some virtuoso pickers of the steel persuasion)
2. I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink – Merle (the Pearl) Haggard (amazing at how many words rhyme with “drink” when you’re from Oklahoma or Texas)
3. Horse Doctor, Come Quick – Corb Lund Band (best tribute to a veterinarian I’ve ever heard)
4. Too Much Tequila/Perfidia/Ciliegi Rosa (medley) – Gruppo New Condor (you may not recognize the names but you know the songs)
5. Ciliegi Rosa – The Mambo Kings Orchestra (what can I say…I was already in the mood; this arrangement is firmly entrenched in the Seventies)
6. Confidently Wrong – Jason Eady (great lyrics wrapped in a solid country two-step)
7. Oh Well – Billy Burnette (cover of Fleetwood Mac song; love the string bass break)
8. Hillbilly Bone – Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins (“I got a friend in New York City; he never heard of Conway Twitty…”)
9. Gunpowder and Lead – Miranda Lambert (a cautionary tale for guys who think they’re tough)
10. Why Don’t We Just Dance? – Josh Turner (I’d like to hear Josh and Trace Adkins do a bass-off)
11. Blindsided (Mile High Klub Remix) – Lucy Woodward (I don’t know; I just love Lucy)
12. I Want You – Savage Garden (this song reminds me of another one, you know?)
13. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield (it was last on the list, and it’s hard to cool down when Dusty’s heating things up)