I en anden artikel har vi givet et fuldt soundtrack, der indeholder 50 sange – ingen af dem er dog beskrevet nærmere, og derfor vil vi komme med et bud på de 10 bedste roadtrip sange, der er skrevet.
LÆS DESUDEN: Det perfekte roadtrip soundtrack
10. The Load Out / Stay
Jackson Browne
The Load Out / Stay afrunder Brownes fremragende album, Running on Empty, der handler om livet som musiker, når man rejser rundt og spiller. Måske er The Load Out den sang, der afspejler dette bedst af dem alle, men ikke desto mindre bliver det kun til en tiendeplads i denne omgang. Teksten er dog fantastisk og man nikker 100% med til den, mens man kører.
Now we got country and western on the bus
R and B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
We’ve got rural scenes & magazines
We’ve got truckers on the CB
We’ve got Richard Pryor on the video
We got time to think of the ones we love
While the miles roll away
But the only time that seems too short
Is the time that we get to play
9. Outlaw Blues
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylans udgivelser fra 1965-1966 er definitionen af cool. Han var fuldstændig ligeglad med alt, og de fantastiske sange kom ud på lynhurtig tid. En undervurderet sang fra Dylans side er Outlaw Blues, der dejligt nok passer perfekt til en længere tur på vejen.
Ain’t gonna hang no picture
Ain’t gonna hang no picture frame
Well, I might look like Robert Ford
But I feel just like a Jesse James!
8. Semi Suite
Tom Waits
Tom Waits’ stil egner sig måske ikke helt vildt til et roadtrip, men denne sang handler i store træk om en lastbilschauffør. Det er ikke en af hans mest kendte sange, men bestemt en af de bedre – og det er svært at stoppe med at synge med, når sangen afspilles, mens man kører.
The only place a man can breathe …
And collect his thoughts
Is at midnight flying away on the road…
But when you hear his engines
You’re lookin’ through the window in the kitchen and you know
You’re always gonna be there when he calls …‘Cause he’s a truck drivin’ man
Stoppin’ when he can
7. The Road
Jackson Browne
Brownes anden optræden her på listen – og han har flere sange højere. Mange af hans sange er dedikeret til musikere on the road, og The Road er blot én af dem.
Well it isn’t for the money
And it’s only for a while
You stalk about the rooms
And you roll away the miles
Gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars
You’re right about the moon
But you’re wrong about the stars
And when you stop to let ’em know
You got it down
It’s just another town along the road
6. Running on Empty
Jackson Browne
Running on Empty burde måske rangere højere, men da Browne allerede har en sang liggende højt, lader vi andre kunstnere komme til. Denne sang er dog fremragende og handler lige netop om det at køre fra sted til sted – Browne skrev sangen, da han var i gang med at indspille sit fjerde album og kørte frem og tilbage til studiet.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up 101
I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on
5. Song to Woody
Bob Dylan
Dylan lavede adskillige sange, der passer godt til et roadtrip, men en af de bedre – og mere ukendte er hans “Song to Woody”: En hyldest til idolet Woody Guthrie. Dette er skrevet i hans unge dage, inden succesen for alvor kom – og Dylan giver i høj grad udtryk for, at han glæder sig til at rejse rundt!
Here’s to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
And to all the good people that traveled with you
Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the windI’m leaving tomorrow, but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday
The very last thing that I’d want to do
Is to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too
4. The Weight
The Band
Sangen handler om en mand, der er rundt for at besøge en række forskellige personer. Det er et klassisk rocknummer, der ofte betragtes som The Bands bedste sang.
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line,
My bag is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time,
To get back to Miss Fannie, you know she’s the only one,
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.
3. Doolin-Dalton
Eagles
Doolin-Dalton er ikke en sang om livet på vejen, men den lever rigtigt godt op til livsstilen. Den handler om en bande i det vilde vesten – og hele albummet Desperado følger efter i samme stil. Selvom man sagtens bare kan sætte albummet på, er Doolin-Dalton den bedste sang. Og efter vores mening den, der passer bedst til et roadtrip.
Go down Bill Dalton, it must be God’s will,
Two brothers lyin dead in Coffeeville –
Two voices call to you from where they stood,
“Lay down your lawbooks now, they’re no damn good.”
2. On the Road Again
Willie Nelson
Nelson er den ultimative road-musiker – han har været rundt at spille i flere årtier, og er kendt for altid at komme i sin bus, når han laver shows i USA. On the Road Again er en af hans mest kendte sange, og den egner sig 100% til et roadtrip.
On the road again, going places that I’ve never been,
Seeing things that I may never see again,
And I can’t wait to get on the road again.
1. Shaky Town
Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar og Jackson Browne
Shaky Town er en rigtig sang om det at leve på vejen. Kootch og Browne var musikere, der konstant var på farten, og sangen passer perfekt ind i deres ånd. I stedet for at forklare lader vi Browne selv tage over. Han fortalte om sangen ved en koncert for nylig:
This is a song from the Running on Empty album. A song that was written by my good friend, Danny Kortchmar. Kootch. Danny Kootch wrote the song. We had been staying up every night trying to write songs about the road and after about a week or two he finally played me this song that was already written… and I said that’s it. That’s the song. It’s a truck driving song. It’s not an easy thing to write if you’re from Scarsdale. But the truckers that would drive on my tour, and would be driving my tours since then, and before…
Anyway, this is a truck driving song written by Danny Kortchmar, called Shaky Town. That’s what they call Los Angeles, Shaky Town.
Sådan fortalte Browne inden bandet startede og fulgte op med at synge sangen…
I’ve witnessed those one night stands…
must’ve played in a thousand bands…
but I’m just here tonight, tomorrow I’ll be gone.
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