It's not often realised, mostly because it isn't true, that the classic motoring anthem Route 66 is based on an old Roman song. In fact, despite the enormous number of very splendid roads built by the Romans, not a single example of a generic 12 bar blues about the joys of using any of them is known to have survived from the ancient world. This, then, is an ode to the Appian Way, one of the most famous roads of the lot, in the hope that it might reconstruct something of the songs one would have heard when travelling through Italy 2,000 odd years ago (and I've tried to play in as Appian a way as possible).

Via Appia

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