{"id":10839,"date":"2007-12-31T17:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/31\/10839.html"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:28:38","slug":"for-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/12\/31\/for-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Melancholy travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

James Keelaghan's Somewhere Ahead<\/a> just came up on the iTunes rotation. Simple, brief, and lovely. First verse:<\/p>\n

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Somewhere ahead, when our wheels have stopped rolling,<\/p>\n

When the tires bite the gravel and travelling's through,<\/p>\n

Somewhere ahead, there'll be clean sheets and linen;<\/p>\n

Somewhere ahead, there is rest and there's you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Follow link to iTunes Store for a clip that gives the melody of the whole verse.<\/p>\n

I like James Keelaghan<\/a>'s songs a lot. He's probably best known to American audiences as the guy who wrote \"Cold Missouri Waters\" (my favorite song from Cry, Cry, Cry<\/cite>), which is how I first heard of him. He's released at least nine albums over the past fifteen years, most of which are now available in the iTunes Store.<\/p>\n

Now I'm tempted to (but won't) put together a playlist of Melancholy Traveler folksongs, or maybe Itinerant Musician songs. Fred Small's \"Willie's Song<\/a>\" jumps to mind, and Gordon Bok's \"Wild Birds,\" and I have a vague idea there are particularly relevant Stan Rogers and Bill Staines songs.<\/p>\n

If we extend it to non-musician travelers, there's John McCutcheon's \"Cup of Coffee<\/a>.\" And James Gordon's \"Frobisher Bay<\/a>\" (just to round out the entry with another Canadian folksinger). (Added later: I guess this verges on the general Homesick Songs category, which there are zillions of examples of, so perhaps best to go back to itinerant musicians per se.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, no time, must get back to magazine stuff. But feel free to suggest other songs on similar themes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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