National Parks Traveler Episode 169: Music Inspired By The Parks

By - May 8th, 2022 7:00am

National parks inspire a lot of things, from great adventures and beautiful landscape paintings to the names of cars and trucks to even music.

In this week's podcast we invite you to tap your feet to the music as Lynn Riddick shares the stories of two bands whose monikers and tunes are inspired by the national parks: National Park Radio, and the National Parks.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
:34 Blue Mist - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
:52 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
1:18 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:38 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:59 Yosemite Conservancy
2:19 Great Smoky Mountains Association
2:40 Monsters of the North - The National Parks
2:41 The National Parks bands with Lynn Riddick
7:30 Time - The National Parks
10:00 Wildflower - The National Parks
11:03 As We Ran - The National Parks
13:46 Live Til We Die - The National Parks
19:06 Live Til We Die - The National Parks
19:54 Black Woods - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
19:59 Wild Tribute
20:20 Friends of Acadia
20:45 Potrero Group
21:11 Washington’s National Park Fund
21:44 The Everglades Foundation
21:56 The Great Divide - National Park Radio
21:56 The National Parks Bands with Lynn Riddick continues
36:51 Mighty Mountains - National Park Radio
39:00 Old Forests - National Park Radio
46:18 Go - National Park Radio
47:30 Episode Closing
48:20 Orange Tree Productions
48:53 Splitbeard Productions
49:04 National Parks Traveler footer

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