The Great Escape

Hi everybody!

Road tripping is one of my favourite activities, and each one is defined by the people and music that are along for the ride. A few summers ago, my friend Alec introduced me to a band called The Refreshments. They have two albums that were released in '96 and '97 and they are quite possibly the greatest 90s rock albums ever. These guys are from Texas or Tenessee or someplace down south and every one of their songs is a road tripping song. Driving through the countryside on a sunny day with the windows down and tunes cranked really can't be beat. Epic moments have been had while listenig to The Refreshments and while "Banditos" isn't my favourite, the music video is awesome.

So there's pretty much a million songs I could post on here this week and I was thinking of just uploading my entire music library but I guess I can be selective. Any good roadtrip should start with a viewing of One Week, just to get you pumped up about traveling, not so much about cancer. With that done some very happy and carefree songs should be compiled. Some of my favourites are Eve 6's "Open Road" or Flogging Molly's "Within a Mile of Home". And of course there is always this gem by good old Gob, who back in the 90s were just crazy. This music video is awesome and its under 2 minutes long.

Finally, if on a road trip and your CD player/cassette player/8-track player dies, hopefully you still have a functioning radio. While roadtripping through strange places can result in some pretty weird music genres, including that aweful form of music called country, hopefully you can find something to your liking during some channel surfing. It's unlikely that you'll find this song by The Bouncing Souls but it should give encouragement that there is a song out there that you can "Sing Along Forever" to.

(for unknown reasons - probably stupid embedding functions - the actual video won't show up here. Youtube has it so go there and watch it, its awesome. Driving around in a motor-home, scanning radio channels, crowd surfering, etc.)

So yah, there are some road tripping songs. And on your way home you can always throw on some John Denver or Belle & Sebastian.

C Dot