Sentence examples for road song from inspiring English sources

6 – (4:23) Desert Wind* Slower tempo road song, nice.

Mahalia Jackson's "Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go" was the first road song I learned by heart.

"Before this World," his first record of new material in thirteen years, begins with "Today Today Today," a nominal road song.

One, with lyrics about cities that "all start looking the same," was a half-baked road song, with a groove that strangely evoked Jimmy Buffett.

When Douridas started spinning a test pressing of "Loser," it became the station's original "pull your car off the road" song, and led to Beck's being signed by Geffen Records.

Most shockingly of all, there's even a singalong road song of quite charming aspect, "The Symphony", which finds him barreling along in almost euphoric mood: "You can see the road ahead in your dreams/ The engine's more a sigh than a scream/ Your ghosts look more like angels from there," etc.

I asked Mr. Hiatt, who has made some two dozen albums, about his favorite road songs.

Here are supermoons and existential road songs, dead junkies and suboptimal love.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs…" Given the insistently improvised and homemade texture of his music, it is tempting to think Waits spends a good deal of his time out here in the sticks tinkering with farm machinery in his yard or fixing his truck.

Whereas train songs and road songs speak to moving forward, or getting away, or finding a new place or perhaps a place that's just a little easier, a little safer, "Why We Build the Wall" is a song in which the character who is speaking does the opposite: constricts, delineates, encloses, and cuts off.

Set to the eloquent polyphony of an early 20th-century New Orleans jazz band, classics such as Careless Love and Just a Closer Walk With Thee (the latter also featuring a rasping Taj Mahal) join bluesy road songs such as Joliet Bound, a New Orleans swing account of Louis Armstrong's Ice Cream and a boogieing Kidman Blues.