What's Your Favorite Road Song?

Have you ever listened or read the lyrics to "The Sound of Silence?" This is just my opinion, but Paul Simon was a very good song writer and producer. As I have read, Art Garfunkel only wrote one song while they were a duo and that one was, "Bridge Under Troubled Waters." This is supposedly what caused their break-up. Art has a very good voice for the type of music he sings. I enjoy listening to all of Simon and Garfunkel or just Paul Simon songs. They are more like folk singers.

One other item I want to add; the song, "Dead Skunk In the Middle of the Road" is an oldie. I remember going out and buying the music to this song, so that I could learn to play it on my fiddle for my Mother. She heard the song a long time ago and became fascinated with it. It made her laugh. My Dad and I used to play together when he was alive. I played the harmonica back then, my Dad played the fiddle (I learned from him starting at age 5), and my uncle played the guitar. We never had a drummer. We played Bluegrass, which was my Dad's and Uncle's favorite, for family get-togethers or if we just felt like singing on a Sunday afternoon. It was a great time. The best of times.

Sorry for the interruption here, but I was just reminiscing. Have you ever heard or saw something that gave you a moment of pause?
 

What fascinating memories oldman, I'd love to have been a part of those days, bluegrass and mountain singing, fabulous!!

I do know all the words of Garfunkel songs as well as Paul simon songs. I remember when I was a teen we used to have Simon and Garfunkel 8 tracks especially Bridge over troubled water, in our old jalopy that we teens ran around in, and we'd sing those songs at the tops of our voices as we drove around the country lanes on Sunny hot summer days. Especially loved Baby driver and the Boxer...ooooh the fun memories of those days :D


 
hollydolly said:
What fascinating memories oldman, I'd love to have been a part of those days, bluegrass and mountain singing, fabulous!!

I do know all the words of Garfunkel songs as well as Paul simon songs. I remember when I was a teen we used to have Simon and Garfunkel 8 tracks especially Bridge over troubled water, in our old jalopy that we teens ran around in, and we'd sing those songs at the tops of our voices as we drove around the country lanes on Sunny hot summer days. Especially loved Baby driver and the Boxer...ooooh the fun memories of those days :D

This was my Dad's favorite.

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Long before my time oldman, but I do know who grandpa jones was thanks to country family reunion shows which brought all the older Blue grass and country singers together to reminisce and sing their old songs.

I was just too young to know any of them, but I've since fallen in love with music that I'd never heard when I was young, but sadly most of those people have died.

I love Jean Sheperd , the osborne brothers, Gene watson, Boxcar willie and loads more and this man... Mac Wiseman..


 
A song that always makes me smile is Show me the way to Amarillo.

In this video it's not sung by Tony Chrystie, but by the Royal Dragoon Guards when they were on a peace keeping tour of Iraq, they decided to do a spoof of the song, to keep everyone's morale up!

It's great fun and never ceases to make me smile..

 
hollydolly said:
I know this song by Josh turner has a deeper meaning than travelling but I love this song so much I thought I'd add it anyway..

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The term road was a shortened version of railroad, so this was a good selection! I always liked Rodger Miller's "King of The Road", which was about trains. But your "Long Black Train" brought to my mind the poem from Lincoln's funeral train: "The Lonesome Train" http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/education/lonesome.htm
I remember Eleanor Roosevelt's voice reading a portion of it :

A lonesome train on a lonesome track --
Seven coaches painted black --
A slow train, a quiet train
Carrying Lincoln home again;
Washington, Baltimore,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Coming into New York town,
You could hear that whistle for miles around
Crying, Freedom! Freedom!!
 
hollydolly said:
A song that always makes me smile is Show me the way to Amarillo.

In this video it's not sung by Tony Chrystie, but by the Royal Dragoon Guards when they were on a peace keeping tour of Iraq, they decided to do a spoof of the song, to keep everyone's morale up!

It's great fun and never ceases to make me smile..

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HAHA! That was SO well done!! Still good for morale! Thanks Hollydolly! :)
 
hollydolly said:
Long before my time oldman, but I do know who grandpa jones was thanks to country family reunion shows which brought all the older Blue grass and country singers together to reminisce and sing their old songs.

I was just too young to know any of them, but I've since fallen in love with music that I'd never heard when I was young, but sadly most of those people have died.

I love Jean Sheperd , the osborne brothers, Gene watson, Boxcar willie and loads more and this man... Mac Wiseman..


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OH!!! I do know Mac Wiseman and what a Bluegrass player he is. He has played for some of the biggest bands in the business, not to mention that he also done well on his own. He must be about 90 years old now. Dumb question; does he still perform?
 
om,he is 89 by now, and the link below has a video.

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/09/23/a-boundless-voice-at-87-mac-wiseman-is-still-a-bluegrass-musical-maverick/

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Yes Oldman as meanderer said above Mac is still alive and 90 next year. Although confined to a wheelchair now he still plays along with his buddies, and this year 2014 he was inducted into the Country music Hall of Fame!

 
Ina, you know what... that has been said to me before on different occasions on other forums. One American said to me that I knew more about America than any Brit he'd ever known and he'd known quite a few from being in the military.

I think I might have been an American in a past life lol, but I've never visited your beautiful country not in this life anyway.. :D
 
Talking of Jimmy Brown meanderer and Ina , one of my all time favourites (bearing in mind I didn't get to know about these until a few years ago) is this one..



..and here they are almost 50 years later still sounding wonderful.

 
That's a beautiful song. I saw Barry some years ago in Las Vegas. After Barry was introduced and came out on stage, he made a statement that I had also heard Billy Joel say at his concert in Central Park, so maybe they stole the line from each another. But anyway, Barry said, "One of my critics have always said that I am a very good songwriter and maybe I should just stick to that because as singer I am not. So, I thought about this for a long time and I decided that if I was going to write the songs that I was also going to sing them because I am the only person that knows where to place the emphasis on certain words in the song. Anyone else would just sing the song by just singing the words without any emphasis." If you listen closely to Barry singing, you can actually hear him emphasizing certain words." Billy Joel said the same things about his singing, but not verbatim.

 
Another of Barry's road songs. Some would say a better version than Paul's.

 

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