Car Songs

[quavik]

One for the road (pun intended)

 

[Waquoit]

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[bantamlaker]

 

[FedupFred]

 

[Scud49]

Little Feat, Gringo:

Red Cadillac at sunset slowing down
For another look at that border town....

 

[Bama fan]

 

[FedupFred]

 

[Plebe]

This is a great idea for a topical song thread, @meyers7 !

Automobiles are in the very DNA of rock and roll and, more broadly, American popular music.

"Rocket 88", often credited as the very first RnR record, is in fact about none other than a car.

 

[meyers7]

About driving all night to get to my baby. (never realized they were Dutch)

Radar Love - Golden Earring

 

[Bonpland]

Willie Nelson On The Road Again. Jackson Browne The Late Show..."let's just say an early model Chevrolet"

 

[SCNCHuskie]

 

[RegisteredUconn]

My Holden

 

[RegisteredUconn]

Not sure it's a car song but there's a heavy car culture influence.

 

[Zorro]

 

[HHH]

One for the Indiana category, from “The Music Man”. Sung by a young Ron Howard:

 

[HHH]

One for the racing category:

 

[HHH]

And one for the car category, a cover performed by an obscure band “from Los Angeles, California” of a Tom Waits song about a 1955 Buick (Waits apparently felt the cover was “a little antiseptic”). The line “The cars are all passing me, the trucks are all flashing me” always reminds me of a trip I once took down i84 in a car my wife’s grandmother had gifted to us because it had been sitting unused for a few years. During this trip I discovered three things:

• Tires can look fine on the outside but be rotten inside.
• i84 has "Minimum Speed 40" signs posted.
• God has a sense of humor.

Half-way into my maiden voyage in this car down i84 I discovered that doing anything over 40mph resulted in the car shaking and shimmying. Thinking that it must be something mechanical, I continued on my way at 40mph (with cars passing and trucks flashing), but turned off the radio so I could hear if the car made any bad noises. As I approached home and became less concerned, I turned the radio back on. And the song that was playing? Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55”. As Paige would’ve said, “That’s God!”

 

[CL82]

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

BORN TO BE WILD Steppenwolf

 

[BRS24]

Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home ... it was on my car playlist when iPods had to mimic a 6-CD player in the car.

 

[Ozimoto]

Don't believe this one has been posted yet...

 

[Cornell Lt]

My latest road jam

 

[meyers7]

My latest road jam

I'm assuming you drive really slow.

 

[Bama fan]

Here is one by The Impalas:

 

[Bama fan]

The Belairs