It's week 6 on the Highway and as yet there is no sign of flagging.
We start with the Highway Queen herself Outlaw Country singer Nikki Lane. Or at least the title song of her third album from 2017 on New West Records.
We follow Highway Queen with Kings Highway by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This thing isn't just thrown together you know. The song is taken from their album Into the Great Wide Open. There is another Highway link in that we always associate this album with where we stayed on our honeymoon in Skye which we christened Tom Petty Highway
Finally for this week we have Steve Young with Alabama Highway .I saw him back in 1995 at King Tuts and there can't have been more than 30 or 40 folk in the audience. By way of compensation today's picture is of Alabama Highway Patrol vehicles in action..
We will hit more Highways next Sunday.
I saw Steve Young at a Cambridge Folk Festival in the early/mid 1980s but did not properly appreciate him until many years later.
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Delete"Switchblades of Love" is a particular favourite. To be fair to my juvenile self that was still 10 years off when I saw him.
DeleteKing's Highway was one of the first songs Sam ever noticed, because it was featured in the movie Cars, which he watched incessantly for about 2 or 3 years when he was little.
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