vegematic by Steve Goodman
Will Rogers by Utah Phillips (Chevron)
Fuji blues by Bob Franke
Pete Seeger: Coca-Cola in "The Foolish Frog"
"L.A. Freeway" -- Guy Clark or Jerry Jeff Walker
mentions Vanilla Wafers
Viagra in the water by the Four Bitchin Babes
Cheryl Wheeler "Is It Peace or Is it Prozac"
Camile West/Four Bitchin' Babes "Viagra In the Water" Hormonal Imbalance
S. Rogers - Lies - "drips Carnation in her cup" - as in evaporated milk
Bob Dylan\ Subterranean Homesick Blues (No Doz)
Paul Simon, Kodachrome
Richard Shindell - The Next Best Western
Trout Fishing in America:
1. Old Things (bakes like Duncan Hines), release Closer To The Truth
2. I Think I Need a Bandaid, release Big Trouble
"Root Beer for Breakfast" -- Vance Gilbert mentions Hires, A & W, Barq's
Boys of the Lough: "General Guinness"
Norman Blake & Tony Rice: Martin guitars in "The D-18 Song"
John Hartford: Farland & Orpheum banjos in "Old Joe Clark"; Shoney's restaurant
New Lost City Ramblers: Martin guitar in "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again"
Norman Blake: Martin guitar, Black Diamond strings: "Hell on Church Street Blues"
Paul Simon: National guitars in "Graceland"
Mary Chapin Carpenter's "I Feel Lucky," which mentions buying "a burrito and a Barq's"
Martin Sexton "Diner" - mentions the Piggly Wiggly
Nanci Griffith "Love at the Five and Dime" - she made the Woolworth counter shine...
Kate Campbell "Moonpie Dreams" (a decidedly Southern treat)
[cars, motorcycles and trucks]
ford econoline by nanci Griffith
dodge dart by Patty Larkin
"75 Septembers" -- Cheryl Wheeler
mentions Yellow Cab, Ford
geoff muldaur chevrolet
"Chevrolet Car" ("I love my baby, crazy bout my Chevrolet"), New Lost City Ramblers
K.C. Douglas\ Mercury Blues
R. Shindell - Kenworth of my dreams
"Daddy Had a Buick": Robert Earl Keen
Richard Thompson: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Fred Eaglesmith - Pontiac - Lipstick,Lies & Gasoline
"Daddy's Oldsmobile" -- Dave Mallett
"When Sinatra Played Juarez" -- Tom Russell
mentions Pontiac
Uncle Dave Macon: Buicks and Fords in "The Dixie Bee Line"; Fords in "New
Ford Car", "Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel"
Robert Johnson: "Terraplane Blues"
Woody Guthrie: Ford in "Talking Dust Bowl"
New Lost City Ramblers: Ford, Loco-Pep gasoline in "Automobile Trip Through
Alabama"
Dixie Ramblers: "Ridin' in an Old Model T"
Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann
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