Touring - Songs that describe the feeling of bicycle touring

What songs do you feel best describe the essence of bicycle touring.
My #1 pick would be Snowin on Raton -Townes Van Zandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1utGVR2w&mode=related&search=

"On the Road Again" by Willie, and "Rollin' Down the Highway" by the Doobies. Can you tell my age?

not at all, I'm 25 and think those are great songs

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/501099/blues_brothers_rawhide_theme/

What about ... "6 Days on the Road and I'm Gonna Make it Home Tonight"?

Yes I have 3 versions of Sixdays
Taj Mahal
Sreve Earle
Gram Parsons

And the line: "I'm a little overweight and my log books are way behind" sort of fits my style of cycling ... not that I'm overweight but that I always carry a bit too much stuff and my ride journal is usually a few days behind.

Plus when I get all the gear on my bicycle, I feel like I've gone from riding a sedan to riding a semi. I was joking on my most recent tour that I should have one of those "Wide Load" signs attached across the back of my panniers.

Roadtrip by Tim Finn
Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel
Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane

What songs do you feel best describe the essence of bicycle touring.
My #1 pick would be Snowin on Raton -Townes Van Zandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1utGVR2w&mode=related&search=

Better(?) yet, "To Live is To Fly". Although I have only the Cowboy Junkies version.

Yes I have 3 versions of Sixdays
Taj Mahal
Sreve Earle
Gram Parsons

And don't forget the Sawyer Brown version:p

Aaron:)

I have a whole collection of "road" songs, but a few of my favorites:

Radar Love by Golden Earing
Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane
Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider
Highway to Hell by AC/DC(my favorite sprint song when I was racing)
Just about anything by Marshal Tucker Band or the Allman Brothers

Aaron:)

My personal favorites are Key to the Highway by Eric Clapton and BB King and Hit the Road Jack for Ray Charles.

Ray

Turn the page - Bob Seger
Why Aye Man, Marbletown, Northumberland - Mark Knopfler
Slow Down - Morcheeba
Ramble On - Led Zep
Magic Carpet Ride, Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Walk the Walk - Poe
Midnight Rider - Allman Bros

"Rockin' Down the Highway" will make you tear off your headphones after hearing it for the 3rd time the same day.

"Driving My Life Away" is good. "Steep grade, up ahead, slow me down, making no time, yeah I got to keep a-rolling".

How about..
the Bicycle Trip by Bruce Cockburn (from the album "Bruce Cockburn' 1970)

Drift along
Hear the gravel crackle
Butterflies
Shades of the eternal dancer
God has buttered the land with sunlight
Sunlight
Corn grows high
Like a tall watusi
Katydid
Hums a monotonous tune
Rather hypnotically
Hmmmmmm
Overhead there's a parrot with boxing gloves
Singing like me
What a clever bird
Even knows the words
But he doesn't seem to see
Me
Making my great escape
You can just take so much of your own advice
Who needs a king
Sitting in a tree
So loquaciously
Pigeonholing everything
Pigeons have a way of taking wing
Back again
Purple thistles bristle
All around
Bane of the Eternal Dancer
Hmmmmmm
Home is just around the bend...
The end

The theme song from "Captain Kangaroo" - -
It has the perfect cadence for pedalling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58CREY

Luka Bloom's track about bicycling, "The Acoustic Motorbike" (not a fan but seems relevant...) :D

www.myspace.com/witnessthefitness

Ok, it's me. And an open-tuned acoustic guitar. The first song is called San Felasco. It's seven and some minutes with one real line: "Got a long way/to keep your head up." Somewhere between bleak and spacious and reassuring. I love it.

There's also the song Carlos. Carlos is an acoustic guitar that I brought with me from Tampa up and along the Blue Ridge Parkway three years ago. I left Carlos with the Cookie Lady. Hopefully this qualifies me for something. = )

My first choice is East Bound and Down(Theme from Smokey and the Bandit) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Yq9wxNHXc&mode=related&search=):


Ol' Smokey's got them ears on,
He's hot on your trail
and he ain't gonna rest til you're in jail
So you've got to dodge him, you've got to duck him
You've got to keep that diesel truckin'
Just put that hammer down and give hell!
Somehow, in my case, as a clyde, pulling a BOB, this passage seems to fit me especially well, especially on the first day of any tour, when my main goal(since I'm alway running late) is to try to make time as well as I can.

Better(?) yet, "To Live is To Fly". Although I have only the version.
I think Cowboy Junkies is the best version.

I'm gonna go with the feeling more than the actual lyrics...

Witchita Lineman--Glen Cambell

Catch the Sun--Doves

Ventura Highway--America

Classical Gas--Mason Williams

A Million Miles Away--The Plimsouls

The Air That I Breathe--Hollies

Times Like These--Foo Fighters

Steppin' Out--Joe Jackson

Ariane--Acoustic Alchemy

>>>Matthew, nice work! That's something I would listen to on a long lonely road.

And let's not forget ...

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

"Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night

Luka Bloom's track about bicycling, "The Acoustic Motorbike" (not a fan but seems relevant...) :D

I'm a huge fan. Every time he graces our shores I go to a gig, I suggest anyone that likes folk music should. Great song too, now that you've mentioned it I can't get it out of my head.

"pedal on, pedal on, pedal on for miles, pedal on"

I have a Few...

Truckin-,just cant get the line "What a long and strange trip its been" outta my head. And

Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad

Promised Land

Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountian

China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider

Help is on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower

Not Fade Away

He's Gone

Tons of Steel

Touch of Gray

Cassiday

Cold Rain and Snow

The Wheel

Estimated Prophet

Throwing Stones

Wave That Flag

And the Entire 5/8/77 Show from Cornell Univ.

"Jus A Freaky Ole Deadhead,Doin Sumphin Different" This is what I tell Folk that ask if I am riding across country

Beach Boys, "I Get Around"; and, of course, Grace Jones, "Warm Leatherette," for those of us who cannot afford the very best.

Franz Schubert, "Das Wandern", from Die Schone Mullerin.

While not a song, the first movement of the Mendelssohn Symphony #4 often pops into my head when pedaling. It was used in the film Breaking Away.

And yesterday while trudging through a metric century with a companion who never varied his cadence, Leroy Anderson's "Syncopated Clock" came to mind.

When days get rough on a ride, I think of John Denver's "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones"

Sloowww riiiddeee

Carole King's So Far Away and Home Again are guaranteed to work if you need a good cry somewhere along the way. Dang, now I'm all verklempft!

if you can work around certain words Subsitute "BIKING" christoper cross "sailing"

What songs do you feel best describe the essence of bicycle touring.
My #1 pick would be Snowin on Raton -Townes Van Zandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1utGVR2w&mode=related&search=

On my world there were several songs that I kept singing, depending on my mood and weather conditions....

"Both sides now" by Joni Mitchell (happy times or sad!)

"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd (when doing a lonely, foggy mountain climb)

"Sad Lisa" by Cat Stevens (when I am really grinding up a hill)

"Land of Make Believe" by the Moody Blues.

there are others, but these were the big four on my world tour.

roughstuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-8SLuvMvE

Roll Me Away - Bob Seeger

Couldn't find a good example.

This fleeting glimpse i often get on a bike tour.

"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

George STRAIT - Peace of Mind
http://artists.letssingit.com/george-strait-lyrics-peace-of-mind-3xfq3fr

I go anywhere that ol' wind blows
Down a blacktop road, anytime
No strings attached, no ties to tie me down
So why hang around, when I can fly.


Ricky SKAGGS - Casting My Shadow In the Road

"I've Been Everywhere"

It was orginally written with a list of Australian places, and was subsequently adapted to include North American places, and another version was written to include even more Canadian places. There are other versions as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere


However, for the Australian, North American, and Canadian versions, I can say ... I've been almost everywhere. :D

Bike shorts get dirty while touring. Sometimes you have to go to the laundry mat. Other times you sing about it...but continue to smell like $hit

http://bustheband.com/busblog/MP3s/Laundry%20Mat.mp3

Road to Nowhere -Talking Heads

500 Miles -Peter Paul and Mary

1) Turn the Page (The Metallica version, although the Bob Segar version works too)

2) Alive, by Edwin, if you arent a Canuk, you probably won't know it, so here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxaAfaCln8

I don't know any songs that describe the essence of bicycle touring, but there are often spngs that fit a particular tour. The theme song for my New Zealand tour was "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp. For my Alps tour it was "Just Over This Mountain", by The Skydiggers.

"Amarillo Highway" and "The Road Goes on Forever (and the party never ends)" by Robert Earl Keen.

Both are suitable for high-volume bellerin' while riding.

This fleeting glimpse i often get on a bike tour.

"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

hey hey hey another Floydhead. I sing that part alot as well...especially when I am climbing, high in the mountains on a chilly, drippy day....can't beat it.

roughstuff

"I've Got To Break Free" by Queen

Queen - Bicycle Race

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

Metallica - Wherever I may roam

And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one

RHCP - Walkabout

High dessert skies are what I spy
So flyÑyou've got to wonder why
The stingrays must be fat this year
Moving slow in my lowest gear
The digirido original man with a dream
I believe the Aborigine
On a walkabout

"Amarillo Highway" and "The Road Goes on Forever (and the party never ends)" by Robert Earl Keen.

Both are suitable for high-volume bellerin' while riding.

+1 on Robert Earl Keen. Add "Rollin' On" to his list.

A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

Sunshine on my Shoulders.

no touring yet but I want to play

sweet home alabama...skinard...where I ride right now
free bird...skynard..for when I ride other places someday
take me home country roads....john denver...for the end of a ride/trip.
free fallin..tom petty...riding off the mountain.
seasons in the sun...westlife?...not sure why
http://www.petalia.org/Songs/seasons_sun.htm
five hundered miles away form home...bobby bare...not yet (more like 15 (30 RT) so far)

Two songs that stuck in my head one day, while climbing a pass in a rain/hailstorm where...

Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles

And it worked!