If you submitted your favourite road songs, and even if you did not, I'm counting them down on this weekend's hour long episode of 'Legends'. Speaking of the devil ...
Though they’d make their name as one of rock’s biggest concert attractions, life on the road wasn’t always sunshine daydreams for the Grateful Dead. It was 1970. The Dead had been touring the country for months on end, traveling from places like Buffalo to Dallas, and trashing the odd hotel room along the way. The road stories became a little more serious when the band shuffled into New Orleans and wound up getting as the story goes, set up like bowling pin and busted down on Bourbon Street. After getting pinched for possessing a personal pot stash, they swore they’d never return to Bourbon Street after that. Truth is some good did come out of all the adventures on the road. The Grateful Dead would be inspired to be put the trials and tribulations of their long strange trips into a song that guitarist Bob Weir would call totally autobiographical. Not only would it go down as one of rock’s greatest road songs, it would in turn become the Grateful Dead’s first notable radio hit upon its release in January 1971, Truckin’.