Best Road Trip Songs

[Moot]

I just got the new 3GS iPhone and need to load some new music. I'm thinking maybe the 50 best cross country road trip driving songs. What should be on that list?

[STARFIGHTER]

Dead skunk in the middle of the road

[GUNTER1100]

Radar Love, by Golden Earring. Just try to NOT pull full throttle while that one is playing.

[jkersh1]

Probably not what you're looking for but Dvorak's Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World" is perfect for traveling in the expanses west of the Mississippi.

[hoog62]

The New World Symphony was part of the classical loop that Southwest had paying during the red eye from Vegas to Orlando a couple years ago. Listened through the loop twice, I enjoyed it so much.

[oldrango]

Well, I'm a red-neck :cboy: so YMMV, but I always start my trips and end them with "On The Road Again" by Willie Nelson. There's a line that goes something like "makin' music with my friends," and I substitute the words "ridin' scooters with my friends"....and I can't wait to get on the road again.

[bmwriderm]

Just about anything from Van Morrison

[davemoore]

Doors "LA Woman", John Andrew Parks "Planet Texas", anything by Incendio (Spanish-Flamenco acoustic guitar) ...

[STARFIGHTER]

Arlo Guthrie
Highway in the wind

[SilverBuffalo]

Well, I'm a red-neck :cboy: so YMMV, So you listen to both kinds of music,....Country and Western!

I've been working on a list myself it's long and Red-neck oriented!
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01 Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
02 Roger Miller - King of the Road
03 The Allman Bros. Band - Ramblin' Man
04 John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
05 Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere
06 Asleep at the Wheel - Get Your Kicks on Route 66
07 Hank Williams - Lost Highway
08 Kathy Mattea - Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses
09 Alan Jackson - Drive (for Daddy Gene)
10 Brooks & Dunn - Red Dirt Road
11 Merle Haggard - Movin' On
12 Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
13 Hank Snow - Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
14 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
15 Jerry Reid - East Bound and Down
16 Alan Jackson - Mercury Blues
17 Clint Black - Nothin' But The Tail Lights
18 Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
19 Lee Ann Womack - A Little Past Little Rock
20 George Strait - Amarillo by Morning
21 Highwaymen - Highwayman
22 Montgomery Gentry - Speed
23 Bobby Bare - Detroit City
24 Jo Dee Messina - Heads Carolina, Tails California
25 Rodney Crowell - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
26 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs
27 Trisha Yearwood - On A Bus To St. Cloud
28 Merle Haggard - White Line Fever
29 Bobby Bare - 500 Hundred Miles Away From Home
30 Martina McBride - Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road
31 Asleep At The Wheel - Hot Rod Lincoln
32 David Ball - Riding With Private Malone
33 Ricky Skaggs - Highway 40 Blues
34 Terri Clark - A Little Gasoline
35 Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road
36 Junior Brown - Highway Patrol
37 Little Feat - Willin'
38 Julie Roberts - Break Down Here
39 Steve Wariner - Drive
40 Keith Urban - Where The Blacktop Ends

I have all of these songs in a folder (131mb)
If you want them pm me and i'll send them to you in a zip file

[lnowell]

Dead skunk in the middle of the road

Whew - that's an oldie - an a good choice. Never would have thought about that one.

My wife and I were going somewhere in South GA several years ago and I was telling her about that song (after passing an area that a skunk passed - whatever) - and it came on the radio. Talk about wierd.

[dwsdad]

Free's "All Right Now"

yeah, I'm old................

[gr8fulfred]

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Grateful Dead - Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Robert Earl Keen - The Road Goes on Forever (and the party never ends)
Jesse Fuller - Beat it on Down the Line
Fred Eaglesmith - Livin' Out on the Road
- Indian Motorcycles
The Trailer Park Troubadors - It Ain't Home til You Take the Wheels Off
Corb Lund - Truck got Stuck

[Moot]

All great selections. My taste tends a bit toward Hans' taste. I have about 90% of your Top 40, Hans. Here are a few on the list I created this weekend of a similar character (and a few that may be a bit adventurous for you, Hans):
1. LA Freeway – Guy Clark
2. Desparados Waitin’ For a Train – Guy Clark
3. White Freightliner Blues—Townes Van Zandt
4. Houston Means – Larry Gatlin
5. Amarillo By Morning – George Strait
6. The Bumper of My SUV – Chely Wright
7. Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody
8. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind – George Strait
9. The Road to Hell – Chris Rea
10. Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels
11. Texas Bound and Flyin’ – Jerry Reed
12. White Line Fever—Merle Haggard
13. Highway Café – Tom Waites
14. Highway Junkie – Randy Travis
15. Roll On big Momma – Moe Bandy
16. Six Days on the Road – Dave Dudley
17. Seven Bridges Road – Eagles
18. Waltz Across Texas – Earnest Tubb
19. Baker Street – Gerry Raferty
20. All My Ex’s Live in Texas – George Strait
21. Wrong Side of Memphis – Tricia Yearwood
22. When You Leave Amarillo – Bob Wills
23. Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
24. La Grange – ZZ Top
25. Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts
26. Against The Wind – Bob Seger
27. Never Been To Spain – Three Dog Night
28. Already Gone – Eagles
29. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
30. Georgia On My Mind—Ray Charles
31. Hotel California – Eagles
32. Lookin’ Out My Backdoor – CCR
33. Luckenbach Texas – Waylon Jennings
34. Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
35. Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin
36. Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
37. Riding With the King – Eric Clapton and BB King
38. Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
39. Tumbling Tumbleweeds – Sons of the Pioneers
40. You Can Sleep While I Drive – Mellissa Ethridge

[SilverBuffalo]

(and a few that may be a bit adventurous for you, Hans)::) :) haha, funny guy, don't underestimate this ol redneck!
There's a few that I haven't heard yet but none that I'm afraid of,

Although I prefer country my father was a marching band musician back in his youth (Sousa phone)
I used to hate his music growing up, but with age I have learned to appreciate all good music

My wife just shakes her head sometimes cause I'll be listening to John Phillip Sousa, Beethoven,
then Bo Didley and right into Moe Bandy and Dave Dudley.

[pickerbiker]

Anything with Mark Knopfler. Great road music.

[jayjacobson]

I just got the new 3GS iPhone and need to load some new music. I'm thinking maybe the 50 best cross country road trip driving songs. What should be on that list?
Well, if you like a little old school rock, "I can't drive 55!" Also, a lesser know Tom Waits (Eagles) song: "Ol' 55." How about some shit-kicker? "I love a rainy knight," by Eddie Rabbitt.

[rwbloch]

Here's my list from two years ago; a few more have been added since then.

http://mymultiworld.blogspot.com/2007/06/riding-music.html

[Lonewuff]

The CD from Top Gun always gets me revved. ;)

[c00k1e]

I know when the pillion is enjoying the ride as she starts 'The ride of the Valkyries'

[blankshot]

That's a plus one on "Hot Rod Lincoln"

I'm not into Country that much but it does remind me of good times with my parents so "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" is always in there some where.

Cheers

[motorhead]

C.D. sets, tho all great road music ...

The best of Bread
Carlos Santana - ANY
Neil Young - Harvest
Anne lenox - Medusa