Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and looking for a good used car
1) Mercedez Benz, Janice Joplin 1:48
2) Pink Cadillac, Jerry Lee Lewis with Bruce Springsteen 3:55
Portrait of a Motor Car by Carl Sandburg
IT’S a lean car … a long-legged dog of a car … a gray-ghost eagle car.
The feet of it eat the dirt of a road … the wings of it eat the hills.
Danny the driver dreams of it when he sees women in red skirts and red sox in his sleep.
It is in Danny’s life and runs in the blood of him … a lean gray-ghost car.
3) Bright Side of the Road, by Van Morrison, 3:48
4) Car Wash for Peace, by Jimmy Fallon 2:14
Driving Around After Rain
by Michael Kriesel
Windows down to
smell the gravel
beer between my legs
and all I want
to be when I grow up
is left alone
5) Copperhead Road, Steve Earl 4:30
Can You Feel the Native American in Me by M. L. Smoker
We pull into dirt driveway in Lara’s blue Celica. The car came from her 18 money last year and it’s got only one dent on the side from a white girl in Wolf Point who slammed the door of her boyfriend’s Ford pick-up into the passenger side of Lara’s then new car. Lara was pissed, got out to kick the girl’s ass but they sped out of the Town Pump’s parking lot too fast. That girl was scared. Lara came back to the car and we laughed at that dent, but most of all we laughed at that fear. Driveway to uncle’s house, we’re bumping Tupac, get out, step into sweat lodge. Got a sick auntie. Take in a towel, leave out hip-hop beat, add in hand drum. Our uncle forgives us this time for being late and we are more sorry for this than we were for quitting the basketball team or for getting pregnant last year.
6) Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen 2:45
7) One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash 4:01
Travis
by Greg Brown
8) Blue Car, Greg Brown 4:12
9) Ford Econoline , Nancy Griffith 2:14
From Hunter S. Thompsons Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 12 Hellish Speed
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him ... and then he will start apologizing, begging for mercy.
This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to do -- when you're running along about a hundred or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your trail -- what you want to do then is accelerate. Never pull over with the first siren-howl. Mash it down and make the bastard chase you at speeds up to 120 all the way to the next exit. He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker-signal that says you're about to turn right.
This is to let him know you're looking for a proper place to pull off and talk ... keep signaling and hope for an off-ramp, one of those uphill side-loops with a sign saying "Max Speed 25" ... and the trick, at this point, is to suddenly leave the freeway and take him into the chute at no less than a hundred miles an hour.
He will lock his brakes about the same time you lock yours, but it will take him a moment to realize that he's about to make a 180-degree turn at this speed ... but you will be ready for it, braced for the Gs and the fast heel-toe work, and with any luck at all you will have come to a complete stop off the road at the top of the turn and be standing beside your automobile by the time he catches up.
He will not be reasonable at first ... but no matter. Let him calm down. He will want the first word. Let him have it. His brain will be in a turmoil: he may begin jabbering, or even pull his gun. Let him unwind; keep smiling. The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle -- while he lost control of everything.
10) Manifesto No. 1, Shooter Jenkins 3:08
11) Moonlight Mile, Rolling Stones 5:55
My Daughter Tells Me She is No Longer a Virgin
by Julia Levine
12) You Can Sleep While I Drive, Melissa Etheridge 4:01
13) Fast Car, Tracy Chapman 4:57
cars, how they roll us through our lives, down back roads, off to new adventures
Peace
14) Low Rider , by War 3:13
Comments
Exceptional show! The inclusion of an excerpt by HST was a real nice touch. And, of course, "One Piece At A Time" is as American (in a good way) as you can get.
Two comments...how hard was it to NOT include "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"?
The other aspect is that I used to own a beautiful 1965 Ford Econoline van...that ride can still tell stories all the way from the auto graveyard! And no, I have never met Julia Levine, or her daughter.
And the last thought, which will be covered on another KDRT show, is the ghost of Neal Cassady and his profound ability to handle old cars...at high speed!
Nice work MM!
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