#ThreeTuneTuesday: Bourbon edition... Are you surprised?

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In case you missed it, I recently took a trip down to Louisville, KY. Pretty much every post I have been making lately has been dedicated to sharing that trip with you. It felt only right that I should carry that theme along into my #threetunetuesday posts sponsored by @ablaze.

Basically, you pick three tunes and you share them with your followers. They don't have to be connected, but I usually like to have some kind of theme. I feel it makes it easier for me to actually talk about the songs versus just spamming some YouTube links.

One of the big draws to Louisville and the middle part of Kentucky (besides horses and Mammouth Cave), is bourbon. In my post yesterday I took some time talking about the Bourbon Trail.

Likewise, in one of my posts last week I gave you more information about Whiskey Row. People come from all over the place to visit the 50 plus distilleries that are located in the state of Kentucky. With the rolling hills and signs that Spring is on the way, it was the perfect getaway from the grip Winter still has on Michigan.

Like I said, the theme for this week is Bourbon, so let's get to it!

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This is a fairly new country song by rising artist Michael Ray. They started playing it on Sirius/XM The Highway before it was on regular radio. It is a really good song. I like the mood of it and it has a bit of a swing to the tune that gets you moving to the music.

While not necessarily a happy song, like I said, it has a mood to it that I think goes perfectly with whiskey and more specifically bourbon. In fact, it's probably no surprise that I would pick a country song to start this week because what goes better with bourbon than some good old country music!

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I'm pulling this one deep out of the vault. Many of you might be familiar with George Thorogood from the song "Bad to the Bone", but the fact is, he had a pretty decent catalog of other songs as well. In addition to that, you will see from the video that he was quite the entertainer as well.

I've never had the chance to see George although I think he was just recently in my area.

Anyway. I felt like I had to include this song. It is just a classic. Plus it has bourbon right in the title, so it fits perfectly. If you get tired of the intro in the video, you can skip to about the 5 minute mark and he really gets to the song.

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I make no effort to hide the fact that I am a lover of all kinds of music. I am just as comfortable listening to Rap as I am listening to Classical, Pop, Rock, Metal, Grunge, or even Show Tunes. One of my absolute favorite genres of music though is Jazz.

I felt it only right that I include the great Wynton Marsalis in this list playing "Bourbon Street Parade". I'll be honest with you. I don't know if I have ever heard this song before by name. It's possible I have heard it but never would have been able to pick it out.

Thank goodness for Google and the power of searching "Jazz songs about Bourbon" to find and share this one with you.

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Finally, I had to give you a bonus song. Neil Diamond is one of my all time favorite song writers and artists, so I had to share this with you. While not specifically about bourbon, I do enjoy to drink my bourbon on the rocks, so this felt like it fit.

I also feel like this is the perfect song to spin on vinyl, sit in a lounger, and sip some bourbon to. It just has that mood to it. It's actually one of my favorite songs by Neil. It actually bugs me a little bit that amazing songs like "Sweet Caroline" have been reduced to novelties at sporting events, but Neil seems to handle it well, so I guess I should to!

That's all I have for you this week. Thanks for coming along on this Three Tune Tuesday!

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