To what are you listening?

Perhaps the best rendition, ever.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. (US UNICEF Fundraiser)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98Wsw9Dmn4

 

This song always brings back memories of my vagrant yoot, though my trips were in beat up cars rather than old trains. I always avoided the Interstates and took the small back roads to drift through the small towns and places off the beaten path. I'd exchange pleasantries with old men at gas stations, look at little homes in the middle of nowhere and wonder what their lives were like, stop and skip stones in little lakes...

When I hear this song I think of an old man somewhere in southern Utah with a sweaty cowboy hat, minding a beat up old gas station. This was in a beautiful narrow flat-bottomed valley full of orchards and green fields with steep wild mountains on both sides. I made a remark to the old guy about how pretty the valley was and he said they'd been real lucky with the rains that year. When I paid for the gas he reached down into a basket and said "Have a peach." I thanked him and drove away. I think that peach was about the sweetest piece of fruit I ever ate in my life. I remember thinking "this is the real America" and I wish I knew where that place was now. I'd like to go back and see if the peaches are as good as I recall. Maybe there's an old gas station for sale and I could buy a big hat and give peaches to strangers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ

 

Ever ride the bus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test

Ken Kesey was Manson like...A good read, 'cause I missed that era by a few years.

 

No, but I got thrown under the bus a few times.

 

The stone roses.

 

I'm counting down to an epic road trip so here's another American classic road song, though done by a Spanish band this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvMedxlc-A

 

You have summoned me from lurk...am bound to grant you 1 road trip song. Use it well.
David Lindley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3Jp_aF1Ok

 

No, I will ferry down the coast as far as Washington.

 

Hmmm. Tis nice but monsters live there. ..Can you really call it a road trip - love boat maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo

Don't catch the norovirus.

 

There is no song called: My Woman From Manila. This is as close as can get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ScDz4Vj98

Go to 3:20 if not feeling it right away.

 

It's costing me 4K to go around Canada by taking the ferry. It's just too much of a nightmare to get my arsenal from Alaska to the lower 48. I could get some of it through Canada with a mountain of paperwork, fees, stool samples, etc, but I'd still have a bunch of stuff that is absolutely verboten in Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BxVO8Ng7F4

 

Yeah, we confiscated a bunch of airsoft rifles because they looked scary. Good idea...Happy that you could defend the ship in case of pirates.
Good luck wolfman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVRRyxVKZs

 

You'll have to kiss some cod, KB- if you wish to cross. Comes with all you can drink screetch. The cod story will turn into a mermaid story.

OH, forgot the important part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKouBHarIo

 

Three Dog Night: Never Been To Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o

 

Beat Surrender.-Jam.

 

AC/DC : Gone shootin'

 

A town called Malice- The Jam.( such a happy song).

 

Frank, baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egY8rUpxqcE

 

Eric Clapton. Swing Low:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDyC_SGCmPo

 

Live a little!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPx9bkpkh8