I got off on a kick of trying to put together a compilation CD of road music for an upcoming trip to the Permian Basin. What songs to include? Sounds easy, at first, but try to narrow it down to just the truck driving songs I want. Or highway songs, fishing songs, cowboy songs for the open road, Cadillac songs, devil songs, songs about going to San Antonio, try to get it down to just one hour, what’s important? “I’m a 1,000 miles from nowhere….”
REK, from Live #2 [The road goes on forever, Amarillo Highway?>
Dale Watson’s Trucking Sessions “Good Luck and good Trucking Tonight”
Blaster’sAmerican Music
Rev. Horton Heat
Hank III
The The back to back with Hank Sr.
Charlie Daniel’s Uneasy Rider [No road trip with **me** would be complete with out that one.>
Brad Paisley’s “I’m going to miss her” should segue right into REK’s “5 lbs. Bass,” right?
A couple of Junior Brown tunes just seem appropriate.
Disc One is done, the goal? Road music. Country and/or Western. Now, the problem? There’s a stack of CD’s with other, good stuff that needs to be ripped and burned, might have to make this a two CD set.
