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- Date Released: July 27, 2009
- Genre: Blues
- Label: The Viper Label / Southern Record Distributors
Down n’ dirty open road songs
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We Say...
Americans have always had a romance with the notion of getting in the car and hitting the highway. The lure of the road ends relationships, starts new lives, and invites new promises. The highway is part of the American identity. And one of life’s great pleasures is jumping into the car, gunning it, lowering the top, pumping the volume way, way up and just going and going and going.
Here’s something that will enhance the trip. Lost Highways: American Road Songs 1920s-1950s veers all over the map. It covers blues, country, early rock & roll, gospel, jump, rockabilly and even some stuff that’s beyond categorization. Bookended by Clarence Garlow’s riotous “Route 90,” and, appropriately, the Soul Stirrer’s sublime “The Last Mile of the Way,” the cumulative effect is similar to what you might have gotten if you’d turned on the radio while driving cross-country during the 1950s. You go “Down the Line” with Buddy and Bob (who avoid a speeding ticket by producing a picture of their girl); Gatemouth Moore smoothly glides through “Highway 61” while Big Joe Williams sees us past the Delta on “49 Highway Blues.” Motoring west, Nat King Cole is our escort on “Route 66.” All great road trips have plenty of unexpected surprises along the way. Expect to find them on Lost Highways.
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Route 90
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2:41 |
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| 02. | |
Down The Line
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2:20 |
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| 03. | |
Down The Road Apiece
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3:00 |
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| 04. | |
Key To The Highway
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2:43 |
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| 05. | |
Route 66
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3:02 |
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| 06. | |
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
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2:58 |
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| 07. | |
The Lonesome Road
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2:36 |
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| 08. | |
Stay On The Right Side Of The Road |
2:44 |
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| 09. | |
Highway 61
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2:37 |
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| 10. | |
Crossroads Blues (Version 1)
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2:40 |
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| 11. | |
Driving This Highway
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2:55 |
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| 12. | |
Rocky Road
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3:02 |
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| 13. | |
Haunted Road Blues
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3:10 |
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| 14. | |
Wide Open Road
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2:24 |
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| 15. | |
49 Highway Blues
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3:08 |
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| 16. | |
State Street Boogie
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2:15 |
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| 17. | |
I’ve Been Down That Road Before
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3:12 |
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| 18. | |
End Of The Road
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1:50 |
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| 19. | |
Highway No. 61 Blues
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2:50 |
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| 20. | |
The Last Mile Of The Way
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2:59 |
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20 Total Tracks, 55:06 Total Length
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