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Stories You Can Still Hear in the Smoke Where laughter outlasts the flame and every chord carries a memory.   When the day fades, the music gets real. This volume trades arena lights for firelight, distortion for harmony and stage dives for stillness. It’s made for late-night laughs, quiet reflection and remembering that sometimes the softest songs hit the hardest. These are the tunes for porch swings and pickup beds, where truth sounds better on an old acoustic and friendship feels like harmony in the dark. 🎧 Listen while you read: Spotify Playlist – Grandpa Rock Vol. IV: Campfire Nights & Cold Ones Crack the First Beer The Eagles – Peaceful Easy Feeling Bob Seger – Against the Wind Tom Petty – Learning to Fly John Mellencamp – Check It Out Jimmy Buffett – Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes Firelight Favorites Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa Crosby, Stills & Nash – Southern Cross Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Neil Young – Old Man The S...

Miles, Motels & Mixtapes Songs built for open roads, bad maps and windows that refuse to stay rolled up. Tank full. Windows down. Time disappears. These songs were made for asphalt — equal parts freedom, reflection, and foot-tapping groove. They don’t just pass the miles — they define them. It’s the hum of tires on the highway, the sun fading in the mirror, and that feeling that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be: somewhere between yesterday and home. 🎧 Listen while you read:  Spotify Playlist – Grandpa Rock Vol. III: Road Trip Edition The Ignition Set (Start Strong) 1.        Tom Petty – American Girl 2.        Bob Seger – Hollywood Nights 3.        The Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane 4.        John Mellencamp – R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. 5.        Steve Miller Band – Take the Money and Run Wide-Open Highway Anthems 6.        The Doobie Brothers – Rocki...

The Ones That Didn’t Make the Charts — But Made Us Who We Are For those who kept the B-sides spinning and believed every dive bar had its own anthem.   For those who kept the B-sides spinning and believed every dive bar had its own anthem. These tracks never chased the charts—they owned the backroads. They lived in slide guitars , whiskey-soaked verses and the kind of sweat-and-soul musicianship that made you proud to call it rock ‘n’ roll. Put the phone down, crank the volume knob, let the tape hiss, the tubes glow and the good stuff roll. 🎧 Listen while you read:  Spotify Playlist – Grandpa Rock Vol. II: Deep Cuts & Forgotten Gem s Hidden Highways & Back-Road Riffs 1.         Bad Company – Rock Steady 2.         Foghat – Drivin’ Wheel 3.         The Guess Who – Hand Me Down World 4.         The Georgia S...