Folk Songs About Bicycles and Cycling

[compiled by FLKCZARINA - Susan Forbes Hansen]

Lynn Harrison: Bicycle Bell 
(http://www.lynoleum.com/mp3/BicycleBellLynnHarrison.mp3) 

Luka Bloom:  Acoustic Motorbike 
Jud Caswell has one on his second CD  about a man who repairs bikes (I am 
have 
Cayouche: Mon Bicycle, Ma  Musique                                          
                                                             
Bruce Cockburn- The Bicycle Trip (Bruce  Cockburn)
TRACY JANE COMER \ Yellow Bike \ Quietly There \ Porch  String
ROBERT CRUMB & CHEAP SUIT SERENADERS \ Pedal Your Blues Away \ Number 3 
Krista Detor: So Goes the Night (Chocolate Paper Suites)
Bob Franke's  "Fuji Blues," on his "For Real" album 
Jo Freya & Pete Morton - Little Bike - Jo Freya&  Pete  Morton
Friction  Farm's new CD 
Richard Garvey & Polly Edwards: A Bicycle Built For You
GEEZINSLAW BROS \ The Bicycle Wreck \ Kooky World of  \ Col
Kathy  Kallick: My Awesome Dude (What Do You Dream About?) 
John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris: Mr. Gubbins' Bicycle (Shreds & Paatches)  
Leo Kottke- Busted Bicycle (6 & 12 String Guitar or The Leo Kottke 
Anthology)
 
Chuck LeMonds: Big White Bike

HEATHER  LEV: Learning to Ride a Bike in NYC (On Train to Babylon) 
Simon Mayor & Hilary  James -  My Bike - Children's Favorites From Acoustics
Metric Foot Band  - Mr. Gubbin's Bicycle - Devotion to motion  
Ralph  McTell - Girl on A Bicycle - Streets of London

Fats Domino's "Rockin' Bicycle."
Same theme as "Daisy," but brought up to the 1950s.

Maura O'Connell / Broken Bicycles / Real Life Story  
Glenn Ohrlin:  The Gol Darn Wheel (Cowboy Songs), Philo LP 
Kristina  Olsen: Folding Bicycle (spoken word) 
Oxymora:  Gypsy Bicycle (Thundering Silence),  Falling Mountain Music 
Jim Page:  Ghost Bikes (Ghost Bikes) 
Tom Paxton:  Ride My Bike (I've Got a Yo-yo)
Daryl Purpose: Mr. Schwinn 
SUZZY & MAGGIE  ROCHE \ Training Wheels \ Why the Long Face \ Red House 
Linda Ronstadt & the  Stone Poneys- Bicycle Song (Evergreen Vol. 2)
Carrie Rodriguez / Seven Angels on A Bicycle / train wreck records 
Adam Michael  Rothberg / Ride My Bike / another spin 
Tommy Sands- I'm Going  Back on the Bicycle (Singing of the Times)
Tannis Slimmon- My Bike (Lucky  Blue) 
Vicki  Swan & Jonny Dyer - Pushbike - Thumb Twiddling
Cary Swinney:  The Bike Ride (Martha)
The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band\ The Bicycle Wreck\ Barnyard Frolic

Katherine Wheatley - Bicycle - Straight Line
Susan Crowe - Boy on a Bicycle - Greytown

Tom Waits- Broken Bicycles (One from the Heart); also by Christine 
Collister (Blue Aconite)
Doc Watson- The Preacher and the Bicycle (On Stage)
Craig Werth: The Spokes Man

[misc.]
Bill Furner\ The Bike Race
Maura O'connell/broken bicycles/real life story/warner bros
The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band\ The Bicycle Wreck\ Barnyard Frolic\ RME

[from Harlon Joye]
The Bicycle Wreck \ GEEZINSLAW BROS \ Kooky World of  \ Col
Training Wheels \ SUZZY & MAGGIE ROCHE \ Why the Long Face \ Red House
Learning to Ride a Bike in NYC \ HEATHER LEV \ On Train to Babylon \ Ordinary 
Magic
                                     Music
Mr. Schwinn \ DARRYL PURPOSE \ D P \ Self
Yellow Bike \ TRACY JANE COMER \ Quietly There \ Porch String
Pedal Your Blues Away \ ROBERT CRUMB & CHEAP SUIT SERENADERS \ 
                        Number 3 \ Blue Goose

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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