Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: Highway 80 (She's a Mighty Good Road) [ purchase ] scroll halfway down to Drum Hat Buddha CD Dar Willia...

Joni Mitchell : Sisotowbell Lane [ purchase ] Here we find Joni Mitchell at the beginning of her career, contemplating a street scene from a...

Bob Dylan & The Band: Bourbon Street A bit more of the old Bob Dylan/The Band collaboration previously discussed here . This was record...

Rodney Crowell: Telephone Road [ purchase ] Steve Earle: Telephone Road [ purchase ] Just to be clear before we start... These are two diffe...

The Nashville Teens : Tobacco Road [ purchase ] Tobacco Road is not the song you think it is. Everything you think you know is wrong. For...

In my house, the movie Cars is a great favorite with six year old son, and therefore the rest of the family knows the movie well. Fortunatel...

Holy Modal Ramblers: Down The Old Plank Road [ purchase ] The Chieftains w/ John Hiatt: Down The Old Plank Road * *Link removed due to hot...

Mississippi Fred McDowell : 61 Highway [ purchase ] As noted earlier this week, the legendary Highway 61, also known as the blues highway, r...

Nanci Griffith : Gulf Coast Highway [ purchase ] Now this is how you write a love song. Gulf Coast Highway isn’t about a road. It’s about tw...

Tom Waits: Virginia Avenue [purchase] There are plenty of Virginia Avenues in the U.S. and for the longest time I, for some reason, thought...

Howlin' Wolf : Highway 49 [ purchase ] Johnny Winter : Highway 61 Revisited [ purchase ] Both of these US highways are odd numbered, w...

Drive-By Truckers : 72 (This Highway´s Mean) [ purchase ] U.S. Highway 72 is approximately 337 miles long and runs from Chattanooga in south...

The Zombies: Conversation Off Floral Street [purchase] I considered posting this one during Instrumentals Week but I never got around to i...

The Jam : 'A' Bomb on Wardour Street [ purchase ] Wardour Street runs through Soho, central London. When this song was released ...

Snookum Russell : Basin Street Ain‘t Basin Street No More [ purchase ] Basin Street was in the heart of Storyville, the legendary “vice dist...

Nellie McKay: Manhattan Avenue [ purchase ] Is is possible to go off-genre just minutes into your first album, in the transition from the f...

Marvin Gaye : Calypso Blues [ purchase ] Despite a strong performance by everyone this week, this really is a challenging theme. I had to le...

Neil Young: Transformer Man [ purchase ] After a disappointing Crazy Horse album, re*ac*tor , Neil switched labels and signed with Geffen R...

Jewel: Under the Water [ Purchase ] Sometimes off-genre goes terribly wrong, and you want to beg the artist to keep their day job, or in mu...

Faith No More : Easy [ purchase ] Faith No More is one of those hard-to-pigeonhole bands that peaked in the early 90s and had disbanded by ...