The Best Vinyl Patio Music Playlist Ideas for Spring & Summer

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Patio Music Playlist

A great patio music playlist is essential to opening up one’s patio for the spring and summer months.

Curating the vibe to sit in your garden or patio space on any given day is exactly what a killer playlist can do.

Every year I try to “open” my garden and patio with the right vibe to enjoy the warmer weather.

I enjoy looking around my vinyl collection for certain moody records and collecting other vinyl records I may find at local record shops.

The vibe has to be just right though or else it isn’t as satisfying to me somehow.

Maybe you’re the same?

What You’ll Need

I think as far as record players go, I am not an expert on that topic.

I know a lot of audiophiles get really into the brand and make and model of a great vinyl record player.

Trust me, I get it.

But I think for smaller spaces and a bit of fun, you want transportation that protects the record player and is easily movable.

I think the Crosley is perfect for a simple vinyl lover like myself.

I’ve had my Crosley for probably a decade now and it holds up well.

It’s cute.

It is functional.

It get’s the job done.

What is not to love?

Vintage Vinyl Patio Music Playlist

Vintage vinyl is a funny thing because what I recommend for this playlist is not something everyone will musically enjoy.

But maybe it will get your musical juices flowing so you can pick out vinyl you want to play on your patio this season.

If that is indeed your thing.

Carly Simon Patio Music Playlist

I love Carly Simon and most of my musical tastes were introduced to me as a kid through my parents and my aunt.

Carly Simon was most definitely introduced to me by my aunt.

She had this membership in the early 90’s to this cd company and you’d get like four cd’s a month and so I was constantly obsessed with her cd’s.

Simon And Garfunkle Patio Music Playlist

I feel like these guys made it into a lot of film soundtracks in the 70’s, so I kind of think of them as like true American vintage pop.

When you play these songs you really feel all the feels,

Roberta Flack

The artistry that is Roberta Flack.

Calling all soul and funk lovers.

Listening to a Roberta Flack record is a really unique experience.

You get amazing, smooth vocals, but you’re also getting a fun story at the same time.

Chill vibes only from Ms. Roberta Flack.

Modern Vinyl to Mix In

Modern Vinyl adds a layer of collecting and savoring the new while respecting the artform of LP’s and the experience they bring to music lovers.

To try to understand why modern musicians love to release LP’s…..

The demand for the audio is there and vinyl spans generations and is to be valued, just as other artists of the past released LP’s.

Kacey Musgraves

Have you listened to Golden Hour on vinyl yet?

There is not one person I have met that is not in awe of this record.

Young, old, black, brown or white who isn’t totally smitten with this record.

It’s very beautifully done.

Jon Batiste

Jon Batiste is the Grammy winner for Best Album Of The Year this year (as he said, “everyone who was nominated also made great records” and I agree).

It’s just a good record to listen to fully through.

It reminds me of Janelle Monet mixed with Pharrell, but at the same time….he is his own.

Love it.

Vinyl Music Playlist’s

I hope this blog post finds you well and excited to pay your local record shops a visit, or dust off whatever vinyl you have laying around at home.

There really is no right way to curate your favorite music, just like there is no right way to curate a garden or a home.

The sound, the aesthetic, the love and care you direct towards anything you do in life will always make it unique to you and that excitement will show through to others as well.

Happy patio season (soon, I hope).

Talk to you soon.

In the meantime, check out this post on Online Vintage Shops You Need to Know about.

-Nikita