Gotta Travel On: songs about traveling and being on the road.

[smahala1991]

As you probably know, I will be taking a bus trip starting today. So in honor of the occasion, I am compiling this mytake full of travel theme songs. Most of these are Country songs by artists you probably never heard of and we're way before most of your time. Nevertheless they are relevant and great songs for the occasion.

Gotta Travel On- Billy Grammer

500 Miles- The Proclaimers

500 Miles Away From Home- Bobby Bare

Promised Land- Chuck Berry

I've Been Everywhere- Hank Snow

I know Johnny Cash also covered this. But, this version is the best and original.

Six Days On The Road- Sawyer Brown

Another cover of a classic song. This one is more themed to road tripping where as the original was about Truck Driving.

On The Road Again- Willie Nelson

Ride Away- Roy Orbison

Vanessa carlton- a thousand miles

Going Up The Country- Canned Heat

If you can think of more feel free to post them.

[tenukitanuki]

Enjoy your return home, there are many travel songs for all types of moving; if you were driving I could say something like Music For A Jilted Generation, a solid driving album. Bus travel is a bit more melancholy and despondent so I'd think maybe smoother lowfi jams like Tribe Called Quest, other JDilla type smoothness like all the XYZWave to blend one moment into another.

Or maybe more traditional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37l7P5V1eXUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxPwIR1VSpY

keep it country but a different one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPdLbh_F94

whole set good
maybe a bit of both?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkdsm7HGh2k

or not? it's all about the enjoyable passage of time while driving music can be both the active emphasis of being very aware, moment to moment or drifting away like you might on a plane, bus or train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUks9-but0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPMesAnsU8

or like I suggested with those smooth ultra funk beats a la JDonuts and Detroit soul. I have "The Groove" on a lot by default, hard to argue with a good bass line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUhi8nr7F4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUhi8nr7F4

[WhiteSteve]

Holiday Road from National Lampoon’s Vacation still bangs like 36 years later👍👍

https://youtu.be/cbg-OVoO8oA

[Claireluvskaren]

This might be the first question EVER, where I agree with every answer, to date, 11:40am. EDT Audust 24th. Ill add Leaving on a Jet Plane, Peter Paul & Mary, .. Traveling Man , Ricky Nelson... End of the Line . Traveling Willburys... Road Trippin, Redhot Chilli Peppers... Too many to list

[Matt57]

Another Ricky Nelson fan❤️

[Sonorous]

I'm late to the party but I like these songs though:

Summer Salt - Driving To Hawaii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZaA_MigKg

Mumford & Sons - Hopeless Wanderer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6PKlDXeU

Twenty One Pilots - Ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-0pbY9JeU

The Lumineers - Sleep On The Floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pi1LxuDHc

Lord Huron - Ends of the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MH-UmYkXiM

Coldplay - O Fly On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbDNUj8pxo

AURORA - Half The World Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKU7DfEJT4

[USedName5zO8sham3]

U need to add that song that goes, "we got a long way to go and a short time to get there... Something something.. loaded up and trucking.. we're gonna do what they say can't be done." ... Maybe Waylon Jennings I don't know...

And if course Wherever I May Roam by Metallica.

[desperatelyhungry]

Shocked no one mentioned Turn the Page by Bob Seger. The opening line is literally "here I am on the road again" lol

[SirRexington]

Not a country fan. But I've always wanted to travel cross country. I almost did right outta high school but things happened which nipped that in the butt.

[DWornock]

Those are excellent songs, but I would add the Tennessee Stud and my favorite "Cry of the Wild Goose."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48vcvo2mik

[Curmudgeon]

For the driver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BF0LMizR4

[loki35]

Gotta have 6 days on the road I think of it every time I pass a scale house

[GhettoGirl]

Try "Two of Us" from the Beatles.. our band jazzed it up a bit but their version sounds sort of English country or folksy. Good road song.
Also got Gladys Knight "Midnight Train"

[GreenPenguin]

Only old songs, you should broaden your horizon, add something new to the mix. For example: Muse - Something Human

[CaptainSmartass]

2468 Motorway by Tom Robinson Band
Autobahn by Kraftwerk

Simples...

[CocoBat]

I just open the window and listen to synthwave or something, that way I can imagine awesome highway gunfights and fighting on top of the passing trucks

[loveslongnails]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3ypuKq8WE

Love Dwight

[Portissac]

Love the choices especially canned heat and being from UK the Proclaimers great song

[Jersey2]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8

[Price511]

have you ever heard country roads

[ramb47]

I think Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin is a good travel-esque song.

[IceCastles]

Midnight Train to Georgia? I don't know.

[DesertOasisMan]

Life is a Highway- Rascal Flatts

[Chadnelson1973]

On the road again Willie Nelson

[TheAceholeSupreme666]

"I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar from 1984.