My Top 20 Robbie Fulks Songs: Where There's a Road (#3)

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Count 'em down! Here's my last one of the day. This countdown looks at my 20 favorite songs by Robbie Fulks, the great Chicago-based country/bluegrass (let that sink in for a moment ) singer/songwriter. #3: Where There's a Road Most songs about teenage angst deal with sexual maturity. Here's a song that looks at a rare side of what teenagers dream about: getting the heck out of Dodge. Written from the perspective of a man who left Georgia on his 16th birthday, heading across country with dreams of being a musician, picking up a bass in Joplin "and a hardcore band somewhere around Santa Fe." Espousing the life of a touring musician, where it's "a club to wreck and a town to burn" and "check-in at seven, doors at ten." It's not a pretty life, but it's a life of freedom. And, as the song's title states, you don't have to be a musician to enjoy the freedom: "there's always a way out where there's a road." This is one of Fulks' most popular songs. Sam Bush (who played mandolin on Robbie's version) recorded it on his Circles In Seven album, and another bluegrass band has also covered it. It's a highlight at every show he performs it at, and it never fails to lift my feet off the ground. This is total 2-70 (two windows down, 70 MPH) music. Where There's a Road Written by Robbie Fulks From Georgia Hard, 2005 Even solo on a guitar the enthusiastic energy of this song comes through: