what is your favorite song about traveling?

[Breck]

The best of songs... wish the damn place existed tho

 

[TayNZ]

Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cross-Tie Walker - Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

[roughdraft]

this one is a bit dicey to interpret but I feel the ideas really do relate to travel and this song is so intensely beautiful

Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National



Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up
Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up
I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees
I'll never marry but Ohio don't remember me

Lay my head on the hood of your car
I'll take it too far
Lay my head on the hood of your car
I'll take it too far

I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love when I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
The floors are falling out from everybody I know

I'm on a bloodbuzz
Yes I am
I'm on a blood, buzz
I'm on a bloodbuzz
God I am
I'm on a blood, buzz

I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees
I never married but Ohio don't remember me
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love when I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
The floors are falling out from everybody I know

I'm on a bloodbuzz
Yes I am
I'm on a blood, buzz
I'm on a bloodbuzz
God I am
I'm on a blood, buzz

 

[Jimmy Beans]

@Juan Derlust Swedish Hiker, I like that. I used to think Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner lyrics were "Big Ol' Jed & Lionel" in place of "Big ol Jet airliner"

Go on, have a listen and tell me that ain't a song about his buddies Jed & Lionel who like to take him out of town to party down hard but he's like hey guys look I'll go but let's not get carried away alright, I got responsibilities n shit I gotta be back home to tend to so let's not overdo it like last time!

And I'm goin' with some hesitation
You know that I can surely see
That I don't want to get caught up in any of that
Funky shit goin' down in the city
Big Ol' Jed & Lionel
Don't carry me too far away
Oh, oh Big Ol' Jed & Lionel
'Cause it's here that I've got to stay

 

[Minnie]

every second of any trip i’m alone whether it be on side of the road, on a boat or on a track i’ve got Freight Train by Elizathen Cotten looped

 

[Laski North]

 

[beersalt]

 

[Deleted member 24782]

Dwight Yoakam - Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Jason Isbell - Traveling Alone
Chris Stapleton - Traveller

You know, songs like that!

 

[NewMexicoJim]

In no particular order:

Radar Love - Golden Earring
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie
California Dreaming - Mamas and the Papas
A Passage to Bangkok - Rush
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty

 

[Avani]

Travel Light- Jeffrey Lewis
Traveling Shoes- Roy Pilgrim
Rambling Beauty- Mischief Brew
Spanish boots of Spanish Leather- Bob Dylan (I prefer Roy Pilgrim's cover on banjo tho)

 

[Bozorg]

Here's some of my favorite train/travel songs- enjoy

Time table blues by captain appleblossom

Marie-Waiting around to die-I'll be here in the morning by Townes van Zandt

The album "the charm of the highway strip" by the magnetic fields

 

[muppi]

Vashti Bunyan train song. singer, she has a soft shadowy voice

 

[MFB]

Wanderlust King by Gogol Bordello is a good one.

 

[Joey Garbanzo]

These two!

 

[Glass Roads]

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet...

 

[Bozorg]

I almost forgot "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

 

[TurboArmatron]

I've had Chad Fontaine's "itchy feet" on my playlist lately

 

[Joey Garbanzo]

I've had Chad Fontaine's "itchy feet" on my playlist lately

His stuff is so good! RIP Chad.

 

[lochnessless]

i'm looking around at tracks i could possibly use for the StP podcast, so i'm curious what your favorite songs about traveling area. if it's independent (i.e. i can use it and not get sued) even better

wayfaring stranger

 

[ggonthego]

Moldest Mouse - Trucker's Atlas
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
Hank III - Crazed Country Rebel
Woody Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby
Tom Waits - Long Way Home
The Murlocs - Rolling On
Cotton Jones - Where You Stop for a Minute
Grandaddy - El Caminos in the West
Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider