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Playlist for Road CD~Canada/Eastern Seaboard Tour
On The Road Again-Bob Dylan:Most peeps would choose the more popular Willie Nelson version but I had to choose my honey-of-all-time, RZ.How nice to have him the first thing. Yummmm.
Jack and Diane-John Cougar Mellencamp:I need an Indiana song here and this song feels so Heartland, so 50s. Drive on.
(Scheduled, but no room) Detroit Grammar-U-12 and Eminem:Detroit is a gritty city. This pairing is perfect. Makes me want to move my hands gang-style.
O Canada-Simon & Garfunkel:Old folk group does Canada.
Canada Is Really Big-Arrogant Worms:Oh yes it is. Boring too. Yet I am still attracted to it. Oui.
Hockey Night In Canada:Hehe.This one is for my Brit friends that hang in Toronto.
Blame Canada-Robin Williams:Forgive me my Canadian friends. I had to have this.
A New England-Billy Bragg:Chose this song because of the Wilco connection (Mermaid Avenue) and New England seems so rustic, so Early America, so fight for your rights. So this is for Vermont (Green Mountains), New Hampshire (White Mountains), and Maine (too many cops;the perfect amount of lobsters)
Hey Jack Kerouac-10,000 Maniacs:Natalie Merchant doing Jack.
Jack Kerouac-Haikus:Authentic Jack
Jack Kerouac-Neal Cassidy:More Jack
Everything’s Not Lost-Coldplay: This song represents Rhode Island the tiniest state in the Union and the one where we kinda got lost. I was navigator that day and I had this idea to cut across the state on secondary roads to make a faster connection to the Interstate. We ended up snaky through MAJOR roadwork. The state is only like 13 miles by 26 miles and we put on over a 100. Oops.
Connecticut-Superchunk:My friend Rob introduced me to this group and how many Connecticut songs are there???????
Autumn in New York-Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong:I was going to download Frank, then decided on this Big Band/Jazz song instead. Plus it was very chilly out east last summer.All of the pools were closed.
Streets of Philadelphia-Bruce Springsteen:Okay Springsteen is from NJ and this is for PN. Kinda a two-in-one song. Yeah B.S. you didn’t sell out to the corporations like a lot of the other bands did.
Delaware-The Promise Ring:Punk and Delaware. Okay!
Raining in Baltimore-Counting Crows:Another of my all-time fav groups. This song simply gets me there.
(I wanted to add Poe’s Hey Pretty here. Okay it’s the wrong Poe, not Edgar Allan, but too bad, I like this song. No room though.)
Crash-Dave Matthews Band:Oh Dave you do it to me. And you are from Virginia right? Hope so. I needed something Virginia here. If I am wrong I will just pretend.
West Virginia-John Denver:I’m not totally swept away by this singer but the sentiment is comforting, kinda hippie music.
Dayton, Ohio-1903-Randy Newman:I LOVE this song. I would like to think someone somewhere actually lives like this.
Take Me To The River-Foghat:I don’t know this group but St. John saw them in Lake Geneva and raved forever about them. The river theme. Ha! I live on a river in the Upper Midwest. It is symbolic of home.
Drops of Jupiter-Train:Love this song. It is about a woman needing time to travel, to connect with the world and herself. It is adventuresome and sad and giving. Perfect ending.