The right music can make any trip more satisfying.
Picking the perfect song playlist for your travels can make any trip more enjoyable-whether you're chilling on an airplane listening on your headset or zooming down the freeway in a convertible with your stereo blasting. Here are some songs sure to keep you "rockin' down the highway."
Instructions
1. You can't take to the road without the Allman Brother's "Rambling Man," the classic 1973 travel tune about a guy who can't settle down. And it's better than ever if you happen to be sitting in the "back seat of a Greyhound bus"-even if you're not "rolling down Highway 41."
2. Even if you've never been near the American south, "Sweet Home Alabama" is a superb song, especially for those traveling back home. I just hope Neil Young will remember to include this on HIS travel playlist!
3. When it comes to Beatles' tunes, "The Long and Winding Road" might leap to mind, but "Two of Us" is more upbeat and equally appropriate. And the lyrics have some of the best lines ever from the Fab Four, including of course: "You and I have memories/
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead."
4. Another great traveling tune, particularly for car trips, is Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream." If this song doesn't get you pumped on the open road, check your pulse-because you might not have one.
5. Likewise, Springsteen's "Thunder Road" is both rocking and meaningful, a song that makes you want to put the pedal to the metal and hit the highway if you're not already on it. And who could possibly turn down the request of "Show a little faith, there's magic in the night?"
6. You don't have to be "busted flat in Baton Rouge" to relate to the classic road anthem, "Me and Bobby McGee," penned by Kris Kristofferson and performed by Janis Joplin among others. Few songs if any touch so strongly on the escapist nature of travel, epitomized by the line, "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
7. An iconic travel jingle ideal for a cross-country getaway, "Route 66" was written by Bobby Troup and sung by many, including the immortal Nat King Cole. The catchy number references plenty of map points on the famed roadway from L.A. to Chicago to Gallup to Amarillo-and is a fun song to sing along to as well.
8. Originally crafted by Aussie songwriter Geoff Mack, "I've Been Everywhere" is known better in the States from the Johnny Cash version, which he revised with plenty of U.S. destinations in the fun and rapid-fire lyrics. How can you not like a song that includes-in the first verse alone-Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa and Oklahoma?
9. A bouncy number that is both catchy and poignant, Paul Simon's "Graceland" was actually based on a road trip he took with his son to the iconic Memphis mansion. It can be hard to get this song out of your head, but luckily it's so good you won't even try.
10. Call it cliche if you must, but your playlist isn't complete without the Willie Nelson standby "On the Road Again." Few songs, if any, truly capture the bottom-line allure of travel in such a way, especially the passage "Goin' places that I've never been/Seein' things that I may never see again."
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