So Put Me On A Highway

[SB]

I luv me sum F troop.

[Timberridge]

Joe Walsh is a helluva guitar player and is one dude I would love to hang out with. Must have been some crazy shit back in the day.

[CountryFunk]

Just because

Nice find - way to dig deep NB!

[old goat]

You can have your highway songs, here's a whole highway album--Highway 61 Revisited. Sorry, can't find a decent Youtube of it. Only #4 GOAT? Seriously, Rolling Stone?

Now the rovin’ gambler he was very bored

He was tryin’ to create a next world war

He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor

He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before

But yes I think it can be very easily done

We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun

And have it on Highway 61

[KQ]

You can have your highway songs, here's a whole highway album--Highway 61 Revisited. Sorry, can't find a decent Youtube of it. Only #4 GOAT? Seriously, Rolling Stone?

Now the rovin’ gambler he was very bored

He was tryin’ to create a next world war

He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor

He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before

But yes I think it can be very easily done

We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun

And have it on Highway 61

Oh yeah... Johnny Winter baby!




but if you prefer Dylan:

[riser4]

[SumJongGuy]

[MultiVerse]

Is this the alt-country highway songs thread? One of the best came out 25 years ago today:

[CountryFunk]

[old goat]

My old truck had a bumper sticker that covered the whole rear bumper--white with black dashed line and the words "Robert Earl Keen, The Road Goes on Forever". I like the Joe Ely cover better.

[ill-advised strategy]

You take my hand, I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It's impossible to make it today

[ill-advised strategy]

[FLS]

[Rideski]

[old goat]

1940

[FLS]

Sent me up the road, thanks OG.

‘Key To The Highway’ is one of those many blues songs with murky origins and controversy about who exactly penned the lyrics. Though the song is associated with Big Bill Broonzy, it was first recorded by piano player Charlie Segar – who was known as the “Key Board Wizard Supreme” – in February 1940. A few months later, Broonzy played guitar on a version by Jazz Gillum before recording his own version in 1941 (with Gillum returning the musical favour and playing harmonica on that cover). All three claimed a hand in the authorship of the song, though Broonzy’s acoustic eight-bar-blues version (the original was 12-bar) became the standard-bearer.



The song is about an itinerant bluesman who leaves home to travel the highways after splitting from his lover. Mance Lipscomb, who recorded a version in the 50s, said that the phrase “key to the highway” referred to a person’s feet. Broonzy told historian Studs Terkel that the melody he used was the one he first heard as a young boy in Arkansas, played on the banjo by his uncle. Broonzy is credited as co-writer (with Segar), and he told Terkel that all blues writers took songs and made others from them by “changing a little bit”. Of ‘Key To The Highway’ he said: “Yeah, I wrote it, yeah. In a way – I’ll say I wrote it; and Charles Segar – he was in it too.”

More in article... https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stori...o-the-highway/

Still like that Greg Allman fellow though

[iceman]

So many good versions of that song. Here's a really good one. Great, actually.

[old goat]

I've been playing the song for 50 years

[Jong Lafitte]

JD Hogg presents the Oak Ridge Boys!



"Is there a safe way through Hazzard county?"
Daisy: "not as long as you sing that good, honey!"

huba huba!

[SumJongGuy]

Belongs in "Covers better than the original?" thread.. Tough to top Al De Miola but this drummer!

[old goat]

Since Iceman mentioned Little Walter (thread drift alert)--this is my favorite Little Walter tune--the only song my band let me sing back in the day.

[old goat]

Since we seem to have run out of highway songs, in light of current events how about--

[KQ]

Since we seem to have run out of highway songs, in light of current events how about--

Au contraire!













Should I keep going or are you all going to pick it up from here?

[Marshall Tucker]

whythankyuh
uhhh. thankyaverymuch

[Marshall Tucker]

Oh. Otay. I see the theme now.

So.
Fer. Cryin. out. loud.
Ya bunch of rubes.