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Grandpa Rock Chronicles — Pt. 6: Vol. IV – Campfire Nights & Cold Ones

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

  1. The Eagles – Peaceful Easy Feeling
  2. Bob Seger – Against the Wind
  3. Tom Petty – Learning to Fly
  4. John Mellencamp – Check It Out
  5. Jimmy Buffett – Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Firelight Favorites

  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man
  2. The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa
  3. Crosby, Stills & Nash – Southern Cross
  4. Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
  5. Neil Young – Old Man

The Sing-Along Set

  1. The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  2. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
  3. Don Henley – The Heart of the Matter
  4. Bob Dylan – Forever Young
  5. Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown

Acoustic Embers

  1. Eric Clapton – Layla (Unplugged)
  2. Mark Knopfler – Romeo and Juliet
  3. James Taylor – Fire and Rain
  4. Jackson Browne – These Days
  5. America – Sister Golden Hair

Smoke in the Air & Stories in the Silence

  1. Van Morrison – Crazy Love
  2. Loggins & Messina – Danny’s Song
  3. Cat Stevens – Father and Son
  4. Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
  5. Jim Croce – Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)

Closing Time (The Last Embers Fade)

  1. Willie Nelson – Always on My Mind
  2. Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
  3. Bob Seger – We’ve Got Tonight
  4. The Eagles – Wasted Time
  5. Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky

Final Word — The Quiet That Stays


By now, the fire’s burned low and the stories are softer.
The crowd’s gone home, the bottles are half-empty and what’s left is the kind of peace you only find when the amps are off and the stars are out.


This set isn’t about nostalgia — it’s about presence.
About connection. About the kind of stillness where friendship, faith and reflection sound clearer than any chorus.


Here, volume gives way to vulnerability.
And the echoes of the night remind us: you don’t have to play loud to be heard.


Maybe that’s what friendship really is —
leaving each other better than we found one another.


🔜 Next Up

Vol. V – Love, Loss & Life Lessons
The songs that taught us how to feel — and what it costs to care.


Author’s Note

Written by W. Adam Greer — author, storyteller and founder of Greer House Press.
Through The Authority Edge™ and Grandpa Rock Chronicles, he explores what happens when authenticity meets legacy — whether in leadership, faith or the music that shaped a generation.

Because some lessons don’t come from lectures… they come from guitars, gravel roads and the grace to keep playing when the lights go down.

🌐 WayneAdamGreer.com

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