American Road
The American Road winds across the historical, cultural, and musical landscape of this big country. Like hot spices in a stew pot of rhythms, melodies, and lyrics from the cultural blood of black slaves, European immigrants, and Latinos, the vibrant, pulsing soul of America is in her music. The road curves down the lonely hollows in the hills of the Appalachians, stops at gin-soaked roadhouses and funky bars as likely to burst with violence as well as sex, pauses at the doors of churches full of gospel choirs seeking repentance, drives by t-shirt shops selling UFO memorabilia, county courthouses where injustice lives, past houses of poor people, rich people, and people with only tonight’s bottle to live for. 
The American Road tells of promise and failure, hope and ruin.

Sometimes the road is curved, sometimes it’s straight
Sometimes it’s dirt, sometimes it’s paved, 
Sometimes it’s a road where freedom walks, 
Sometimes it ends at a burning cross

The American Road is telecasters and little amps, it’s mandolins, accordions, drums, and bass. It’s a Hammond B-3, all stops. It’s boogie-woogie piano; it’s harmonica. It’s three part harmonies. It’s bluegrass, it’s blues, it’s western music, it’s honky-tonk, it’s the voices of the roots of American music all wailing together in high spirits on a Saturday night. It is music we all know in our bodies and souls.

The American Road is our voice, it is our music. It tells of the desert, of the city, of the fields and farms, of lonely souls and hot lovers. We are all the American Road. This is our music.

Big Dance And Fight

Santa Fe

Loneliest Highway

The Girls Of Summer

I Will Follow You

Life You Gotta Love It

Somewhere In America

Circle Of Friends

Rich Man

Mama Your Shirt's Too Tight

My Home Town

American Road

Alex Call is the writer of 867-5309/jenny, by Tommy Tutone, Perfect World by Huey Lewis, Little Too Late by Pat Benatar, Mr Moon by Elvis Costello, and many others. He was the lead singer in Clover, the San Francisco country-rock band whose other members included Huey Lewis and John McFee (Doobie Bros). Clover made four albums for Fantasy and Phonogram and Alex was a solo artist on Arista Records. He is also the author of " 876-5309/jenny, the song that saved me" on Charles River Press. 
American Road is Lorin Rowan of the Rowan Brothers and Buddy Woodward of The Dixie Beeliners.

Alex Call ~ American Road

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