songs about the rambling life

[quavik]

Tracy Chapman with a fast car to anywhere:

 

[Bama fan]

All time classic

 

[quavik]

One from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band:

 

[CL82]

I didn't want to draw the penalty flag by going there, but am happy to glom onto that since you went there first.

LOL, I was hanging my hat “country roads take home” but these threads always have a pretty liberal interpretation.

 

[PoppaBear]

Happy 89th birthday Willie! And still on the road!

 

[quavik]

kind of a bittersweet song that i have enjoyed for close to 50 years now:

 

[quavik]

had to add another MM song. i really like her approach to song craft:

 

[quavik]

Mr Bojangles must have been a rambler:

 

[quavik]

This song got me through my divorce:

 

[Zorro]

I posted another version of this, but that's ok. I have been following Molly since she was about 12. She and Billy Strings are at the very apex of flat picking.

 

[Zorro]

When the trans-continental railroads were first built, there wasn't much between the East Coast and the West Coast but prairie. But the trains needed coal and water about every hundred miles or so, so the RRs built water tanks and coal dumps all along the lines. This is a Jimmie Rogers song about a rambler who got bumped off a train at one of the water stops way out there in the middle of nowhere.

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[cullaville]

The YES version of America

Yes - America

In the studio with YES as they record America, a song that was released on the Atlantic Promo album, The New Age Of Atlantic, and as a 45 rpm single. Eventu...

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[Jackcatscal]

Sort of…

 

[Hoops66]

Rambling on the sea...

 

[Plebe]

Great topic for a song thread.

A bit of a subtle but self-critical glance at being unsettled.

 

[MdStang]

One of my favorites from the late great Tom Petty.

 

[MdStang]

Blackberry Smoke. For the restless ramblers.

 

[Scud49]

Mr Bojangles must have been a rambler:

I'm sure he was, and likewise David Bromberg.

I love his live version of Mr Bojangles, and his story mid way at the break of how Jerry Jeff wrote the song:

 

[Scud49]

Truckin' down to Houston, goin' down to Richmond, goin' down to Vicksburg, now I'm rollin' into view"....sing it Taj...!

 

[Longtime fan]

I don't know if we've quite done this before, maybe? Let's call it an ode to the transfer portal. Plenty of songs about those that just don't wanna stay in one place too long. Heard this one on Pandora earlier, which gave me the idea for the thread.

I vote for " waiting for a train" by Jimmy Rogers. " " all around the water tank, waiting for a train...a thousand miles away from home...sleepin' in the rain...:

 

[Scud49]

Flying Burrito Brothers - great live version of "Six Days on the Road"

 

[VA Huskie]

I'm sure he was, and likewise David Bromberg.

I love his live version of Mr Bojangles, and his story mid way at the break of how Jerry Jeff wrote the song:

We saw Bromberg a month or two ago. He’s still great!

 

[PoppaBear]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]