“Get your kicks on Route 66”
– written by Bobby Troup, recorded by Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones

“66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert’s slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I got them 66 Highway blues”
– written by Woody Guthrie, also recorded by Pete Seeger

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else”
– Billy Connolly, Billy Connolly’s Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip

“The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family, like the rest of America, succumbed to the lure of faster highways, more direct routes, higher speed limits. We forgot about taking the slow way”
– Michael Zadoorian, novelist, The Leisure Seeker

“Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure in whatever comes our way”
– Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild

“The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street”
– John Lasseter, director of Cars

“This highway, if you just think about it, is peppered with hope; it is peppered with tears”
– Angel Delgadio, co-founder of Arizona Route 66 Historical Association

“66 is the mother road, the road of flight.[81]”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Route 66, 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, opened in 1926

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New album from Ninebarrow

Posted in I Got Music, Reviews on 4 October, 2025.

DORSET’s much-loved folk duo Ninebarrow are releasing a new album at the beginning of October, a celebration not only of the vocal harmonies of the two musicians but also of the joy of choirs singing together. The Hour of the Blackbird marks a departure for Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere, who have worked with two…

Reggae changed the world

Posted in I Got Music on 4 October, 2025.

TORONTO-based singer-songwriter Duane Forrest will take the audience on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae and the global influence of Bob Marley in his show, Bob Marley – How Reggae Changed the World, at two Artsreach concerts – at Chetnole village hall on Sunday 19th October and West Stafford on Monday 20th, both…

A bluegrass revival

Posted in I Got Music on 4 October, 2025.

THE musical partnership between Leon Hunt and Jason Titley started way back in the early nineties, at some unforgettable late-night festival jams which, inevitably, led to the formation of a band, the ground-breaking and hugely popular ‘progressive’ bluegrass outfit, Daily Planet. Now the pair are back together, coming to Dorset for three dates with Artsreach…

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