This week we’ll continue with more great songs of the road and the long steel rails, perhaps in time to inspire your summer travel. We’ll hear great music from sources as varied as Jimmy Webb, The Delmore Brothers, Paul Simon, Asleep at the Wheel, and lots more. Follow that road … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Country Cooking / “Farewell Blues” / 26 Bluegrass Instrumentals / Rounder
Utah Phillips / “Daddy, What’s a Train?” / Good Enough / Philo
Diane Patterson / “Open Road” / Open Road / Self-produced
Gordon Lightfoot / “Me and Bobby McGee” / If You Could Read My Mind / Reprise
The Price Sisters / “Get On the Main Highway” / A Heart Never Knows / Rebel

Paul Simon / “Train in the Distance” / Heart and Bones / Legacy
John Hartford and the Hartford Stringband / “Keep On Truckin’ / Good Old Boys / Rounder
Jimmy Webb / “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” / Ten Easy Pieces / Guardian
The Delmore Brothers / “Freight Train Boogie” / Freight Train Boogie / Ace
Country Cooking / “Orange Mt. Special” / 26 Bluegrass Instrumentals / Rounder

Judy Collins / “Someday Soon” / Who Knows Where the Time Goes / Elektra
John Reischman & the Jaybirds / “Wellesley Station” / On That Other Green Shore / Corvus
Roustabout / “The Race Between the Ford and the Chevrolet” / Roustabout / Yodel-Ay-Hee
Asleep at the Wheel / “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” / Swing Time / Sony
Hot Buttered Rum / “Leaving Dallas” / Lonesome Panoramic / Self-produced
Pure Prairie League / “Kansas City Southern” / Two Lane Highway / RCA
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways