Road/travel songs

[Rattlesnake Gospel]

...list 'em. Your favorites. Specifically those with the theme right there in the title, though that's not a requirement. Obvious choices would be:

Springsteen - Born to Run
Frank Turner - The Road
Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin'

You get the point. From the obvious to the obscure. I'm looking to make some epic playlists for upcoming road trips and I'd like anything and everything I can find. Plus I'm looking to discover some new tunes, so shoot.

[delboydrums]

Driving / Road Songs:

All of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Also Cadillac Ranch / Darlington County / Drive all Night / Thunder Road - Bruce (obviously)

Gets Worse at Night - Lucero

2,4,6,8,Motorway - Tom Robinson

On the Road Again - Willy Nelson

Road Trippin - Chilis

Keep the Customer Satisfied / Baby Driver / America - Simon & Garfunkel

Truckin - Grateful Dead

The Weight - The Band

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

And it Stoned Me - Van Morrison

Graceland - Paul Simon

Going to California / Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel

Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

Carl Perkins' Cadillac - Drive By Truckers

Telegraph Road - Dire Straits

Little Red Corvette - Prince





(And if on Trains / Planes: Train in Vain - The Clash / Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd)

[kickingitwithkevin]

Jun 10, 2015 15:49:33 GMT -5 delboydrums said:

Driving / Road Songs:

All of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Also Cadillac Ranch / Darlington County / Drive all Night / Thunder Road - Bruce (obviously)

Gets Worse at Night - Lucero

2,4,6,8,Motorway - Tom Robinson

On the Road Again - Willy Nelson

Road Trippin - Chilis

Keep the Customer Satisfied / Baby Driver / America - Simon & Garfunkel

Truckin - Grateful Dead

The Weight - The Band

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

And it Stoned Me - Van Morrison

Graceland - Paul Simon

Going to California / Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel

Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

Carl Perkins' Cadillac - Drive By Truckers

Telegraph Road - Dire Straits

Little Red Corvette - Prince





(And if on Trains / Planes: Train in Vain - The Clash / Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd)

I'm burning this list next trip for sure!

[orzelc]

Twenty-Five Miles -- Edwin Starr
Old 55 -- Tom Waits
Won't Be Home -- Old 97's
Papa Was a Rodeo -- Magnetic Fields
Somerville -- Pernice Brothers
Needle Hits E -- Sugar
Tell Balgeary Balgury Is Dead -- Ted Leo
Tennessee Plates -- John Hiatt
Pirate Radio -- John Hiatt
Corvette -- Golden Smog
Little Red Light -- Fountains of Wayne
Here and Now -- Del Amitri
Driving With the Brakes On -- Del Amitri
Taillights Fade -- Buffalo Tom

(Not all super-great driving songs in a pedal-to-the-floor sort of way, but songs with travel in them...)

More on the "Separated from somebody, wanting to travel to see them" side of things:

I Wanna Come Home -- the Bottle Rockets
Nightclub -- Old 97's

[delboydrums]

Ah yes, twenty five miles / papa was a rodeo / here and now / driving with the brakes on - love them, thanks for the reminders!

[tbob]

I see Simon and Garfunkel have already been mentioned but not 'Homeward Bound'. I don't drive but it's always nice to hear that tune on a long trip home.

[wealdstone]

Willin' - Little Feat
Hard Drivin' Man - J Geils Band
are two that come to mind