Since festival season and summer tours are underway, both fans and musicians will be putting lots of miles on their cars and tour buses. If you’re looking for musical inspiration while on wide-open road, check out these responses from some of our favorite, well-traveled musicians. Relix asked some artists what they like to listen to while they’re on the road – and we received a wide array of responses, from podcasts to dubstep and everything in between. Click here to check out part one with Bela Fleck, Keller Williams and others…

Marco Benevento

Marco’s daughter, ready for tourSleigh Bells “Infinity Guitars”
It’s just the best riff ever !! The tune is super uplifting and powerful and simple and danceable and badass – we’ve been covering it for the last couple of months and it’s a great tune to rock people.

Kris Kristofferson “Sunday Morning Coming Down”
Dave Dreiwitz, Andy Borger and I like to get our days started with Kris when we’re on the road. — the words are pure poetry – “and the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad so I had one more for dessert” — Kris is a personal hero for all of us — he’s a badass songwriter – an actor and a helicopter pilot – apparently he landed on Johnny Cash’s yard and brought him some music he was workin on .

Galt MacDermot “Coffee Cold”
Oh Galt – how long is the hair that comes out of your ears?? Dan Ramirez (our soundguy) turned us on to his stuff. Great piano rock from the 70’s – great production- super catchy too.

James Booker “Life”
I’ve been listening to Booker for over 10 years and I notice something more amazing about his playing everytime. He’s THE New Orleans pianist that I highly look up to.

Shel Silverstein – “Freakin’ At The Freakers Ball”
We’ve been listening to a lot of Shel lately. He wrote a bunch of great tunes, “Sylvia’s Mother,” “A Front Row To Hear Ole Johnny Sing,” “Daddy What If?” and my personal favorite “Queen Of The Silver Dollar.” I can hear (and feel) attitude and pure human emotion when I listen his words and music.

Robert Mercurio (Galactic) Dr. John – Locked Down
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Lyrics Born – Variety Show Season 5
Allen Toussaint – Life, Love, Faith
Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’

Jennifer HartswickI would say… let’s see… there are two things I constantly listen to: Snarky Puppy is one of them. They’re an incredible band originally from Texas, now in Brooklyn. I listen to a lot of Snarky Puppy really loud. Dawes is a really great band; we listened to them on the way [to Chicago]. I like to feel good! You just want to drive with the windows open and feel good. Zach DeputyMy favorite stuff to listen to is usually really old. I also like to buy random albums as well. For instance I just bought a CD that is Bill Cosby singing the blues, it’s a fun listen. I also receive tons of CDs from different random bands across the country. Sometimes they’re my opening act and sometimes it’s just a random artist that really wants me to hear their music. Either way I try to give them all a listen. My personal favorites are Ray Charles, James Brown, Bobby McFerrin, Donny Hathaway, Harry Belafonte, Tito Puente, Lettuce, D’Angelo , My buddy Ryan Montbleau and last but not least a little Michael Jackson will get you grooving. Those are just a few of the jams kicking around the tour bus.

Erik DeutschJerry Lee Lewis: Killer Country
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
David Allen Coe: Underground
Aerosmith: Rocks
Carole King: Music
Scott H Biram: Bad Ingredients
Art Pepper: The Trip
Black Uhuru: Red
Missy Eliott: Under Construction
Waylon Jennings: Lonesome, On’ry And Mean

Tauk
Kneebody “I’m Your General”
The Bad Plus “And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation”
Ben Allison “Tricky Dick”
Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground”
Medeski Martin & Wood “End of The World Party”
Michael Jackson “Get on The Floor”
Aphex Twin “Jynweythek Ylow”
Brian Blade “Crooked Creek”

If it’s early morning and we have a long ride ahead of us we will start with something mellow for the day like Brian Blade. If we’re in a rush, we listen to something more fast-paced and full of energy like Kneebody. Sometimes it’s a battle over who controls the radio, which will then be decided with a game of Rock Paper Scissors…. Best out of 3

Luke Miller (Lotus)I listen to a lot of podcasts to give my brain a little break from music. So my top podcasts:

Jordan, Jesse Go!
Radiolab
Bullseye
Freakonomics
Doug Love Movies
On the Media
WTF
Nerdist
This American Life