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🎵 Cliff's Song of the Day 🎵

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"Life Is A Highway" by Rascal Flatts & Lzzy Hale

Listen on Apple Music (music.apple.com/us/album/life-)

For some strange reason, and maybe because I knew their new album was coming out today, today's song has been stuck in my head for a few days now. Life Is A Highway by Rascal Flatts & Lzzy Hale. It's a remake, or in this case, refueled as their new album is just old songs that are redone.

Just another one of those songs that get stuck in my head and then it just won't leave for whatever reason. Great song, so I certainly don't mind!

[Intro]
Woo
Mm, yeah

[Verse 1]
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore

[Pre-Chorus 1]
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today, yeah

[Chorus]
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're goin' my way
Well, I wanna drive it all night long

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app.crucialtracks.orgCliff Wade's Crucial Track for June 6, 2025The song Life Is A Highway by Rascal Flatts & Lzzy Hale

CISCO HOUSTON
Cowboy Ballads
U.S. 10” reissue
(Blue Cover)

Comfort music from when I was small.

As I’ve mentioned on here before, I had many Aunts and Uncles growing up as a kid, and folk, as well as classic country music (& Elvis) was very prevalent in all of their houses growing up.

Cisco Houston was among the artists that I have a very distinct memory of growing up. That wonderful, baritone voice of his, whether singing other artists’ songs (what he was more known for), or his own compositions.

He also was very close with and travelled with Woody Guthrie, and his takes on HIS songs are stellar as well.

Here, my favorites are “I Ride An Old Paint” and “Trouble In Mind”; the latter of which takes me back to my uncle’s garage, where he kept and worked on his many antique cars.

“Trouble in mind / I'm blue/ but I won't be blue always/
'Cause the sun's gonna shine
In my back door someday.”

"Mississippi" is a medium-tempo #country-#rock song by the American singer-songwriter #BobDylan that appears as the second track on his 2001 album #LoveAndTheft. The song was originally recorded during the #TimeOutOfMind sessions (demo sessions in Fall 1996; official album sessions in January 1997), but was ultimately left off the album. Dylan rerecorded the song for Love and Theft in May 2001. Described as having beauty and gravitas.
youtube.com/watch?v=GZFB6ZhtGOg

STOMPIN’ TOM CONNORS
The Unpopular Stompin' Tom
1976 Canada pressing

Killer music from a Canadian legend.

STC was a 100% badass. Every single one of his records is a slayer.

Classic twangy singer/songwriter country, rife with Canada references.

I particularly have a soft spot for “Where The Chinooks Blow” with its Hawaiian-sounding lap steel, and the lyric “I’m going back again/to Vancouver Island.”

I will end this Stompin’ Tom post in the same way I’ve ended all of my previous Stompin’ Tom posts, with hopes that I can conjure him back from the dead, and it won’t be just an idea on a sticker:

STOMPIN’ TOM FOR PRIME MINISTER.