Step on it!: Dan DeLuca's summer road trip playlist - Philly.com
That means it's still road-trip season, still time to get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway, as Steppenwolf sang in "Born to Be Wild," a song identified with 1969's Easy Rider but also featured in my favorite road movie, the 1985... This month, I guested on Dan Reed's drive-time show on WXPN-FM (88. 5) to play five tracks that fit his chosen theme: songs about cars. (I was also there to shamelessly plug the biweekly music-geek talk show he and I do called The Dan and Dan Music Podcast. Four of the five - by Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Chuck Berry, Bruce Springsteen, and the Tom Robinson Band - appear in the playlist annotated below, which you can listen to on a Spotify playlist at philly. Car songs have been at the heart of American music for decades, going back to what many consider the first rock and roll song recorded, Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats' 1951 "Rocket 88," and further into classic country and blues. When not obsessed with L-U-V, pop music is often about escape, or confinement, or showing off your shine, and songs about cars tell an essential part of the story in a country where freedom is more frequently expressed by turning the keys in the... The playlist below includes only songs that are actually about driving or at least use vehicles as a central metaphor. Source: www.philly.com
