Tag: travel
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Road Happy
Well, given the theme of this post, I wanted to work in a Willie Nelson song with the word “Road” in the title… …but it felt too early to use “On the Road Again”, so I went with “Road Happy”. Fooled ya! “Road Happy” was a song that Willie co-wrote with Dolly Parton for the…
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Baja Oklahoma
Welcome back everyone! I’m not sure how many days into a new year you’re allowed to say “Happy New Year”, so let’s just say “Welcome to 2026!” Since you’re reading this post, you may have figured out that we are back out on the road again! And since you most likely saw the post was…
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Watching the River Flow
“Watching the River Flow” was a song that Dylan wrote back in 1971. Leon Russell produced and played piano on the track, and it was released as a single, not as part of an album (although it ended up on “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II”). But to explain why I went with “Watching the…
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A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall
Man – “Hard Rain” is such a great song! The truth is, we haven’t had any huge rainstorms on our trip, but we are up in Washington state now, where we’ve seen the drizzles and mists that you’d expect, and that was good enough for me to use one of my favorite Dylan tunes for…
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If Dogs Run Free
On the album “New Morning”, Bob Dylan put out a song that is strange by even his standards – it’s called “If Dogs Run Free”, and it’s kind of some odd 50’s sounding jazz piano tune with a lady doing scat in the background. If you haven’t heard it, why not check it out here?…
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Edge of the Ocean
For this post’s title, I went with one of the songs from Bob Dylan and the Band’s sessions back in the 60’s. Bob Dylan has written more words than there are. Over the last 15 or 20 years, there’s been a whole side business of finding stuff that Dylan recorded that wasn’t officially released and…
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Hot Fun in the Summertime/Warmth of the Sun
Okay… I know I said I’d use Dylan song titles for the blogs during this stretch, but with the loss of two amazing and tragic musicians the other week, I decided to go with a Sly and the Family Stone/Beach Boys mash up title for the new blog post. If you haven’t seen it, I…
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‘Cross the Green Mountain
Hello all! I hope all is good in your neck of the woods! For this week’s title, I chose kind of an obscure Dylan track – this was found on the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 release, and it’s a song that Dylan wrote for a Civil War movie called ‘Gods and Generals’. I hope Tom…
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Drifter’s Escape
Well hello again friends! Thought that I’d forgotten about you? Why of course not! After heading home for a couple of months to take care of some health stuff, we are back out on the road! I will say – in my last post, when we got home at the start of March, I mentioned…
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Home
So, one thing that always cracked me up about Tom Petty was that while most of his albums were under the banner of ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’, he also put out three ‘solo’ albums just under his Heartbreaker-less name… but on all three of those albums, the musicians he worked with were pretty much…
Where’s Nico? 