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Best 'on the road' / 'touring' songs?

Posted on 5/15/13 at 9:51 am
Posted by WikiTiger
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 9:51 am
My votes:

1. Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay

2. Bob Seger - Turn the Page

3. Metallica - Wherever I May Roam



What you got?
Posted by L Boogie
Texas
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:01 am to
Highway's Home- Will Hoge

Casualties- American Aquarium

And from a crew member's perspective, there's this one:
Roadie- Tenacious D



Posted by TFTC
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Member since May 2010
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:09 am to
quote:

Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay


The whole "Running on Empty" record is apout being on the road touring... and it was recorded on the road... bus, hotel rooms, on stage, etc.

It could actually go in the "concept album" thread above this one, too..
Posted by rutiger
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:14 am to
black crowes- wiser times

grateful dead- going down the road feeling bad
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:22 am to
Jackson Browne is one of my all time favorite artists. Whenever at a paino bar I always request this. Not a ton of people seem to know The Load Out though. And a really surprising amount only seem to know Stay. I always thought the two were pretty much the same song.
Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:24 am to
well, they are kinda treated as such... more people know Stay because it's a cover...
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:26 am to
I never knew it was a cover.
Posted by Dire Wolf
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:31 am to
quote:

grateful dead- going down the road feeling bad



not a dead song but i like anyway
Posted by rutiger
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:36 am to
quote:

Posted by Dire Wolf quote: grateful dead- going down the road feeling bad not a dead song but i like anyway


I know this, the deads is my favorite version though.
Posted by Dire Wolf
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:38 am to
for sure
Posted by TexasTiger1185
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:45 am to
Truckin'

Literally about being on the road, about real places/things, and initially was designed to be continued through the years. Add on more verses about more things that happened to them. That obviously didn't happen, but still.
Posted by MrCoachKlein
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 10:55 am to
Boogie took mine, but I'll add Best of Me and Bread & Water by Bingham
Posted by WikiTiger
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:19 am to
quote:

I never knew it was a cover.


Great original, check it out: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs - Stay (1960)
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:26 am to
thanks,

and I don't really know what you mean with the title?

does it have to talk about driving or touring?

Anyone one song that always appears on my road playists is Bill Wither's - World Keeps Going Around. Really enjoy all of his stuff actually.
Posted by TyOconner
NOLA
Member since Nov 2009
11375 posts
Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:28 am to
quote:

1. Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay


I love this song. No matter how many times I hear it, I cant change it.
Posted by rutiger
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:29 am to
simon & garfunkel- america
Posted by WikiTiger
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:32 am to
quote:

and I don't really know what you mean with the title?


My original intent was to discuss songs about being on the road as a musician, but it's ok if people open it up to other types on songs about road trips and what not. No set rules here.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:34 am to
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home

Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
Posted by TigerPanzer
Orlando
Member since Sep 2006
9476 posts
Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:35 am to
Canned Heat, "On the Road Again":
LINK
Why they have a body was commercial before the song is beyond me. Canned Heat was practically the Hell's Angels house band.
Posted by MrCoachKlein
Member since Sep 2010
10310 posts
Posted on 5/15/13 at 11:40 am to
B.W. Stevenson- Texas Morning

Nothing better on the road at dawn
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