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I seriously need YOUR help!! You, my musically intelligent and knowledgeable friends. Please, please help me educate my young’uns. We need the expertise that you have to share.
We are leaving on Sunday for our “epic trip out west”. And I have not yet created a musical accompaniment. I need songs for every step of our trip.
I need recommendations for :
Texas?
New Mexico (including Roswell)?
Arizona?
Grand Canyon?
Las Vegas?
Nevada?
California?
San Francisco?
Yosemite?
Utah?
Colorado?
Teton?
Wyoming?
Yellowstone?
Montana?
Devil’s Tower?
Dakotas?
Mount Rushmore?
Corn Palace?
Great American Road trips in general?
And so on and so forth. I’m not knowledgeable in this. I need your help.
ideas so far:
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.
Route 66.
This Land is Your Land.
But I know you can do better than that! Three songs is not enough to cover our amazing country! Help me and my girls in our quest for a knowledge of not only the sights of our great land, but of the musical accompaniment as well. Please?
I plan to post and re-post in order to get as many recommendations as absolutely possible. I *will* post and probably even play our playlists….
um, well…”On the Road” Again for here in Texas? I’d say “Born to be Wild” for California, too. Have fun!
Thanks, Lee!! I’ll see if we have them and, if not, add them to our library!
Awesome! Don’t forget “Holiday Road” from Family Vacation ๐
One of the best driving songs ever — “Radar Love” by Golden Earing!! Then there are the country tunes “All my Exes live in Texas” “Amarillo by Morning” and “Ocean Front Property in Arizona”. For California there’s a great Woody Guthrie tune, but I don’t remember the exact title. “Come Monday” by Jimmy Buffett, “Do you know the way to San Jose?” “Viva Las Vegas”, “Rocky Mountain High”, “Fullsome Prison Blues” (he mentions shooting a man in Reno), also “Friend of the Devil” by Grateful Dead (I lit out from Reno…). And of course my entire CD “Mr. Stinky Feet’s Road Trip”. I love road trips — that’s our entire life. Enjoy and keep us posted on your journey. Cheers!!
Yeah Jim! Thanks! “Do You Know the Way”?? How could I EVER forget that one!! I hum it every time I fly out to San Jose! Excellent ideas! Woo-hoo!
Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofe
Johnnie Cash’s I’ve been Everywhere is a great roadtrip song. Also, Richard Buckner is a California singer songwriter who is fabulous. Not peppy road music, more California atmosphere stuff.
Suzi Shelton has a great song called, Road Trip and although you’re not going to San Diego (it IS CA, though), I remember the Jellydots had that awesome song about it! PK
For a diversion, you could put together a playlist of songs that mention modes of transportation and the first one to both name the mode listed and see it on the road gets the point. My favs that belongs on that list: Queen’s “I Want to Ride My Bicycle,” “My Flying Saucer” by Billy Bragg and Wilco, and “The Motorcycle Song” by Arlo Guthrie. (Skimming Arlo’s mp3 list in Amazon shows a bunch of songs with traveling-type titles, btw.)
Jim Gill has a bunch of transportation songs that are probably too young for your crew — “Driving Here, Driving There,” “The Night we Made It Noise in Boise,” “San Francisco,” “Alabama, Mississippi.” Similarly young, “State Laughs” by Tom Chapin. There must be a million + 1 versions of “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain.”
Cotton-Eyed Joe, for Texas…many versions out there
I can’t think of a more appropriate song than “The Eagle and the Hawk” by John Denver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf7qEvXBW_k&feature=related
“An Evening with John Denver” is an absolutely delightful collection of live music for travelling out west, or anywhere ๐ RIP John Denver!