Some mornings I wake up and know I'm on the right road. This was one of those mornings. My first words this morning were the lyrics to Nat King Cole's "Route 66." My thoughts were of the road, the Mother Road of North America.

Many past mornings I awakened very near the road itself. My ranch is on a hill, my dirt gravel lane empties into Route 66 as it winds from Winona, through the ponderosa pine forest, toward Flagstaff. The high snow covered peaks, called sacred mountains by the Navajo and Hopi, dominate the road, and reveal the road as it is, insignificant layers of asphalt.

Nat King Cole's 1950s recordings of "Mona Lisa" and "Unforgettable" were my lullabies.

He also composed and recorded the now infamous song "Route 66" that has help to crystalize an idea, a concept for our own music video.

When I see Glen Heggstad's photographs, (StrikingViking in Ride Tales), and reflect upon how different they are from the post election media images of Iran, I understand the importance of those differences.

No one has written a ballad about the Pan American Highway, we can do this
and more much more. We can share our experiences through a music video.

Ideas welcome. xfiltrate....


YouTube - NAT KING COLE ROUTE 66

YouTube - Tribute to Route 66

YouTube - Southern Road Trip - USA

YouTube - Route 66

YouTube - Grand Canyon and Old Route 66

YouTube - Take It Easy-The Eagles (Live)

YouTube - Route 66 - USA



YouTube - The Eagles & Linda Ronstadt -Desperado

YouTube - Take It Easy

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Come now, ladies and gentlemen. What consonance of mental images regarding stunning vistas and broadening experiences would be complete without a little Pink Floyd?

YouTube - Pink Floyd "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" Syd Barrett Tribute

And This:

YouTube - Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Live! Isle Of Wight

xfiltrate

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One of my ALL TIME favourite songs is that ...

Some other cool tunes of the Era..

Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth

YouTube - Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth (good sound quality!)

And the Rolling Stones - Gimmi Shelter

YouTube - Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

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Did some trips.
Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
Can't say anymore.

As the pendulum swings the other way, here's something completely different. Back to motorbikes:
YouTube - George Formby - Riding in the T.T. Races


Plus some real adventure motorcycling action(!)
YouTube - George Formby, No Limit, The Race.


And something from the PanAmerican Highway. I cycled a little of it back in 2001.
Heading north into Ciudad Juarez and the border with Texas:

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It is a very dark, windy, wet and stormy night on the north coast of of Spain. I can see the lights of A Coruña out across the water, but my thoughts are of Africa and the Sahara. I was researching ancient "Algerian" caves and cave drawings and found this music on YouTube. It centered me and made me smile. I hope you enjoy it too. The guy really knows how to ride a camel!

Tuareg Music (Niger) - YouTube


ride hard, ride free

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Thank you all for contributing in this and creating this thread for some of the music/artists I have been introduced to, by you.

I would like to contribute the fine guitarist and writter Richard Thompson.

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - YouTube

enjoy

I'm just in the middle of reading "Hotel California" by Barney Hoskins. It's about the L.A. music scene in the late Sixties/early Seventies centred upon Laurel Canyon. CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt all feature in the book along with other characters like David Geffen, Ned Doheny, Henry Diltz et al. Good stuff.

The old blues stuff on this thread is excellent. Who plays???
Here's some of mine.

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Socks, I truly enjoyed your contribution. The guitar looks like my
Simon Patrick guitar, but I could not make out the brand name.

I am a great fan of Jack kerouac esp "On the Road" the city of lights etc
hammer on. Jack's Mother was my Grandmother's neighbor in St Petersburg, Florida. Now there's a one of a kind brand for you!

I remember Dr. Jerry Wagner (my English prof at USF) paying a taxi to transport Jack Kerouac from his Mother's house in St Pete to Tampa where he used to sit on the bar at the Wild Boar and pontificate. He was either drunk or on drugs or both every time I saw him. I was underage, but used to sneak into the Wild Boar, a Tampa bar that was burnt down by Tampa's vice squad soon after Jack Kerouac died. RIP

Starbeck nice guitars how about some more music?

You guys ever get over to Spain, I am up on the northern coast.


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ere you go to all of you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGLB...eature=related

The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider - YouTube

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Some of my favorites
Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher, Walk On Hot Coals, Live On The Whistle Test - YouTube

Rory Gallagher : A Million Miles Away - YouTube

Rory Gallagher - Lonesome Highway - YouTube

Rory Gallagher - Too much alcohol - YouTube

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America is a nice continent,not a country.All people who lives in this continent are americans.Discover it in peace!

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Thanks for the Gallahger tunes he is one the greatest guitar players I have listened to, and here are two more....

This thread was established as Wabash Blues for the HU, music for the Bar
My Grandfather Harry George an Velma Truett , recorded a cover of the old time tune Wabash Blues for Colombia Records, see first post,
and, Harry and Velma also recored their original "Ghost Dance" in 1927

for Colombia Records, in those days the artist sold all rights to Colombia for

$50.00 USD and that was that,

GHOST DANCE by Truett and George 1927 - Unusual Guitar duet - YouTube

but somehow Grandpa's Ghost Dance is still

being covered by artists of the day like John Jorgenson

John Jorgenson - YouTube

Jorgenson ain't bad either....

Grandpa Harry and Velma went on to invent TRUJO banjos and guitars and
eventually sold out to Gibson Guitar company. Like Gallager, Grandpa died young (34) while driving home from a gig somewhere in Oregon.

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No bankers!


Well, I like it. And it'll be nice to keep the thread going.

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I hadn't seen this thread before, it was born when I was living on a mountain in Galicia without electricity, glad Mr Crankpin revived it.

Mentions of 'All Along the Watchtower,' and Kerouac - two of my favourite things in the world!!

Africa and Ee-ti-oppi-yah have also been mentioned, so I thought I would post the song that most reminds me of the amazing new flower.

Garnett Silk-Hello Mama Africa - YouTube

It was being played everywhere when I was there, I can't hear the song without wanting to stuff my face full of injera.

Birdy

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”


Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around - YouTube

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain? - YouTube

'I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”


Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction - YouTube


“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”

Birdy