Texas Road Trip
2001
- Road Trip - Gary P. Nunn
- Swervin' In My Lane - Robert Earl Keen
- Fun All Wrong - Roger Creager
- Runaway Cadillac - Jack Ingram
- Goin' Home To Texas - Ed Burleson
- Driving Myself Crazy - Owen Temple
- Texas Time Travelin' - Cory Morrow
- Damn Good Time - Chris Wall
- Travelin' Jones - Jason Boland & Stragglers
- Miles And Memories - Dub Miller
- Heartbreak Highway - Clay Blaker
- 18 Wheels Of Loving - Cooder Graw
- I-35 - Max Stalling
- 42 Miles - Cross-Canadian Ragweed
- Heartaches And Highways - Rodney Hayden
- Hill Country Here I Come - Tommy Alverson
- Headin' Out West - Mark David Manders
- Panhandle Sunset - Luke Olson
- Rolling - Phil Pritchett
- Road Song Medley - Kevin Fowler
The gypsy lifestyle required for musicians to make a living is a topic that is closely associated with country music. Few topics have inspired as many country songs as the road has. The closest the rest of us get to life as a traveling musician is the tradition of the road trip.
There are a handful of necessities for any good road trip. First, you need a car. Next, you need a rowdy group of friends (it never hurts to have at least one friend with his parent's credit card). The last and most important ingredient for any road trip is music. You've got to make sure you've got a stack of your favorite road trip CDs. However, there will come a time on any road trip, most likely somewhere between Abilene and San Angelo, that all your friends will fall asleep and leave you with driving duty. Not to worry, Compadre Records can help you out. They've assembled some of their favorite Texas road tunes that are sure to make the mile markers speed by, not to mention wake up all of your passengers.
Texas Road Trip features many of the Lone Star State's favorite sons. These guys can sing road songs with authenticity because they spend every night in the honky-tonks of Texas. Texas music legend Gary P Nunn kicks off the comp with his hard driving "Road Trip." Robert Earl Keen's "Swervin' In My Lane" compares a doomed romance to the perils of dealing with bad drivers on the highway. Not only does Jack Ingram include his previously unreleased "Runaway Cadillac" on Texas Road Trip, he pontificates about music and the road in the liner notes. "Music is to road trips what beads of sweat are to beer bottles," he writes. Jason Boland, Cory Morrow, Cooder Graw, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and others join this who's who of Texas music.
Hopefully, this music will inspire you to load up your friends and head on down the road. If you aren't lucky enough to live in Texas, come see how it's done in the Lone Star State. So enjoy the ride, keep it between the ditches, and don't forget your copy of Texas Road Trip.
