What Ever Happened to Songs About the Road?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.04.04 | 9:45 PM ET
“The road is disappearing,” writes Dan Neil in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times. “Fading from popular music is the body of imagery, the poetic conventions that evoke the Mythic American Road.” Neil’s terrific essay—he recently won the Pulitzer for criticism—traces the history of the road song and, unfortunately, it’s available only to subscribers on the Times Web site. Also included in the package: Times music critic Robert Hilburn’s picks for the top 25 road songs. Among his choices: (18) Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Sweet Hitch-Hiker,” (7) Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” (3) Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” and (1) Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
