Growing up one of my favorite things was to watch The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross on PBS. Along with learn­ing the proper tech­niques of the fan brush and how to cre­ate happy trees, rocks and clouds, I imme­di­ately fell in love with the trance-like rhythm of Bob’s calm­ing voice. Bob would take the time to give his view­ers the step-by-step instruc­tions in cre­at­ing one of his mas­ter­pieces all the while inject­ing his life philoso­phies such as “We make happy paint­ings, if you want sad things then watch the news” and “Art is too free to be defined by dis­tinct rules, so if you want to paint a big olé’ oak tree go right ahead.”

Bob died in 1995 and the show has been off the air for quite some time. So, unfor­tu­nately, I have haven’t been able to get my Bob Ross fix since my VCR ate my tape of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross until Kari sent me BobRoss​.FM . You can now lis­ten to a con­ti­nous stream of episodes using Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Real player or oth­ers. There is noth­ing more relax­ing after a rough day then lis­ten­ing to the sweet, calm­ing sounds of Bob Ross. Not only do you get to hear his voice you can hear the stroke of his paint brush and the scrape of his palette knife against his, most likely, oval can­vas. So next time The Man gets you down pop on your head­phones and relax to the sounds of Bob paint­ing his ideal world of happy trees and rocks using the lovely hue of Van Dyke Brown.