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Road Songs
A few things jumped out at me this morning while reading the fish-wrap. Gas thieves suck the farmers dry caught my attention. The second was naming a stretch of Highway 178 the Kern County Deputy William "Joe" Hudnall Jr. Memorial Highway. We have road blues today. Too bad. All this got me thinking that politics and the gas crunch have really put a crimp into a serious American pastime, cruising in the automobile. In days of yore great tunes flooded the airwaves with songs about cars and the road. Chuck Berry has a bunch of my favorite tunes in this sub-genre of road worship. No Particular Place To Go, You Can't Catch Me, Nadine and Maybeline. A person cannot help but feel good listening to these true classics. The Beach Boys put out a bunch of car and cruising tunes with Shut Down, 409, I Get Around, Little Deuce Coup and Little Old Lady From Pasadena coming immediately to mind. The Beatles had Drive My Car and Why Don't We Do It In The Road?. Steppenwolf made a career out of Born To Be Wild. The Byrds had Easy Rider. Foghat had a couple of great road tunes with Highway Killing Me and Drivin' Wheel. Rambling Man, Key To the Highway, Making Thunderbirds, and I Can't Drive 55 are a few other road classics. Even Jimi Hendrix did Highway Chile. Maybe you've got a few great road songs to share with the world today to get the bad-news beast off the billboards. "There's too many Datsuns in this town." -NY- 3 comments from 3 users
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posted by
bakoblue
on Jun 27, 2008 at 02:48 PM
You forgot Prince's "Little Red Corvette", although it wasn't technically about a car ;o) "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" Bob Seger's "Roll Me Away" Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" Tom Waits' "Ol' 55"
posted by
sagefever
on Jun 27, 2008 at 03:51 PM
Woody Guthrie's "lets go riding in the car"... posted by
adampayne
on Jun 27, 2008 at 05:02 PM
Those are great choices from the both of you. I certainly didn't forget them, glad you started a thread. Sprigsteen had a complete album with nothing but streets and car racing imagery called Darkness On The Edge of Town. The following stanza is from Prove It All Night, which is on that album and aptly describes the American fascination of cars, roads and love. "On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving cross the Waynesboro county line I've got the radio on and I'm just killing time Working all day in my daddy's garage Driving all night, chasing some mirage Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge."
Hope springsteens eternal. Hope some more bloggers add to the party, cause politics is really boring these days.
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