Rock 'n' Roads - Winnipeg Free Press
The songs imbedded in your brain during road trips – particularly but not always during the summer – are imbued with a sort of magic. Road songs facilitate a form of time travel, as they serve as a direct and highly personal pathway to important events in your life. Road songs become part of your soul. Midway through the summer, at the height of Manitoba road-trip season, we asked seven Free Press writers and editors to compile a 10-song road-music playlist. It may be a cliché to say, but I spent the best five months of my life living in Europe — Koper, Slovenia, to be exact — for a semester abroad in 2010. During that time we drank a lot, danced a lot and went on road trips a lot. There was also just one CD we had to take with us – a burned disc that had maybe 17 songs on it. Seventeen songs sounds like a lot, except when you think about the dozens of hours spent on the road. Do you know how many times you can listen to 17 songs on the way from Koper to Vienna. Corsita went through many trying times with us: she was hit by a wild turkey, towed in Vienna, driven near fields in Bosnia that likely still had active land mines and took us on. Source: www.winnipegfreepress.com
