THE SOUND OF AMERICA
VA - Free Highway - The Sound Of America [2001] (4 x CDs)
There is little information about this album, and I guess the tracks speak for themselves. It is from Germany.
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Track lists
CD1
1 Journey - Wheel in the Sky 4:12
2 REO Speedwagon - Shakin' It Loose 2:26
3 The Hooters - 500 Miles 4:22
4 Kenny Loggins - Footloose 3:47
5 The Charlie Daniels Band - Oh Atlanta 3:18
6 Joe Diffie - Pickup Man 3:36
7 Rick Trevino - Honky Tonk Crowd 2:46
8 Doug Stone - You Won't Outlive Me 2:43
9 Ricky Van Shelton - Linda Lu 3:41
10 Larry Boone - Watermelone Time in Georgia 3:46
11 Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind 3:12
12 Boston - More Than a Feeling 4:44
13 Kansas - Okay the Game Tonight 3:23
14 Dave Loggins - Please Come to Boston 4:07
15 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Honey Bee 2:42
16 Johnny Winter - Feedback on Highway 101 4:18
CD2
1 Redbone - The Witch Queen of New Orleans 2:43
2 The Allman Brothers Band - Gambler's Roll 6:44
3 The Charlie Daniels Band - In America 3:18
4 Joe Diffie - Good Brown Gravy 3:02
5 Big Bill Broonzy - Big Bill Broonzy - Getting Older Every Day 3:17
6 The Hooters - Don't Knock It 'til You Try It 4:15
7 REO Speedwagon - Music Man 4:34
8 Willie Nelson - On the Road Again 2:32
9 Doug Stone - Born in the Dark 3:50
10 Taj Mahal - Statesboro Blues 2:23
11 Roger McGuinn - Born to Rock and Roll 3:17
12 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever 3:39
13 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell 4:52
14 Journey - Walks Like a Lady 7:04
15 Heart - Straight on 4:52
16 Blood, Sweat & Tears - And When I Die 4:01
CD3
1 Boston - Hitch a Hide 4:13
2 Toto - Goin' Home 5:16
3 Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper 5:04
4 Alice Cooper - It's Me 4:39
5 The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia 3:36
6 Joe Diffie - Third Rock from the Sun 2:49
7 Rick Trevino - I Want a Girl in a Pick-Up Truck 2:34
8 Ricky Van Shelton - Complicated 3:03
9 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Look at Little Sister 3:08
10 REO Speedwagon - Keep Pushin' 3:57
11 The Electric Flag - Texas 4:48
12 Roger McGuinn - Rock and Roll Time 2:47
13 Journey - Any Way You Want It 3:20
14 The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff 3:20
15 The Hooters - Mr. Big Baboon 3:53
16 Ram Jam - Black Betty 3:54
CD4
1 Meat Loaf - You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth 5:02
2 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 4:07
3 Loverboy - Turn Me Loose 5:37
4 REO Speedwagon - Only the Strong Survive 3:52
5 Cheap Trick - Can't Stop Falling into Love 3:44
6 Toto - Rosanna 5:31
7 Steppenwolf - Smokey Factory Blues 4:11
8 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Hi-De-Ho 4:25
9 Kansas - Dust in the Wind 3:23
10 Joe Diffie - The Cows Came Home 2:56
11 Rick Trevino - It Only Hurts When I Laugh 2:28
12 Doug Stone - Look Where She Is Today 2:35
13 Pacific Gas & Electric - Are You Ready? 5:45
14 Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 3:58
15 Heart - Barracuda 4:23
16 The Hooters - Johnny B 3:58
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Thanks for this fine set, Butter - right on the doorstep of Independence Day in the U.S. Germany seems to have a warm and appreciative spot for American music and culture. A trip to Hansa-Park in northern Germany by me and my daughter in 1993... had us fascinated (and scratching our heads) at a section that reproduced America's 1800s Wild West, including costumed "Indians" (native Americans / first nations) lecturing the tourists... in German...
ReplyDeleteHi Aging Child,
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Enjoy the music, I always say. Some good memories here.
Your comments sort of makes sense to me. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States. They must have sold some stories back home. Would have felt strange being in Germany and lectured on America in the 1800's. Twilight zone material.
Wikipedia Says- There is a "German belt" that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia), founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry. They were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Germany by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start fresh in the New World. The arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where "Germania"—German-speaking districts—soon emerged.German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States,introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America.
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My father was a twentieth-century immigrant to the U.S. from Germany, arriving first in Tennessee as one of the first post-WWII Fulbright Scholars, coming back a few years later for his masters' degree (and to meet my mother), and again - for good - after a few more years with wife and firstborn (I was second, smuggled along, born a few months after). My mother says that while they were living in Germany, he talked on and on about the U.S.: history, culture, music, technology, etc. Yet once in the States, his main topic of conversation was Germany: he bought two VWs, had German martial music in rotation on his stereo, etc. And living in Pennsylvania (yes, by way of Philadelphia), he was delighted and intrigued with the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture.
ReplyDeleteGenealogical research by his cousin (and by me) has shown Dad wasn't the first of our family to cross the ocean: during the early years of that 1820-70 period you mentioned, a wealthy ancestor took a tour of the young United States - in 1827, likely keeping a journal... which I'm itching to locate and translate. Bizarrely, in 1835, his son died at age 23 on board an American sloop-of-war in the Gulf of Mexico. How did he die? Why was he, a young Saxon consul based out of Mexico, on the American ship in the first place? Yes, there are many stories astride the two nations, with mysteries like this among them.
...some amusing things, too. While I was in Germany in 1973, the song I heard most on the radio was Grand Funk's "We're an American Band"...
Thanks for sharing your story.
DeleteIt would be wonderful to find and read those journals.
My wife's Uncle wrote three life journals as a Merchant Navy sailor traveling around the world. His biggest and best exploits always seemed to be about family... When he finally stayed put in a new homeland he kept his diary habits and my family were included in his thoughts and stories. Its truly great to read such personal material.
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We *have* to encourage our loved ones, especially the oldest, to share their stories and recollections (write, audio-/vide-record; whatever) while they still can. Beyond the insights these little narratives give us, they also keep alive our dear ones alive long after they've passed out of our ken... so your wife and her family are greatly blessed.
DeleteA lifelong journalist, my mother began writing little vignettes of her own lifetime, twenty-some years ago. They are priceless, illuminating, intriguing, and entertaining... and to get back on-topic, I've found there's a little thread of music running through them. From jazz on the radio in the 1930s to 1940s and beyond, to songs sung by then-young siblings, and even recordings that shaped some of the earliest words she wrote as a child - e.g., Kilmer's "Trees" (Donald Novis), "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" (Annette Hanshaw, et al.), and so on.
Ahh...
Ahh indeed.
DeleteThank you friend.
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nice one love this VA - Free Highway - The Sound Of America (4 x CD's) thank you Aussie
ReplyDeleteVery good collection to drive to
ReplyDeleteIs it possible you can re-upload?
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