Today's Tune: "Highway Song" By Blackfoot

Photo from www.tccn.ca

Trans-Canada Highway, one of the largest (4,990 mi / 8,030 km) national highways in the world, officially opened on July 30, 1962. It's actually a multi-road system, running across the Southern regions of Canada, from one end to the other. This bit of transportation history lends us the opportunity to relate a rather good 'Today's Tune' selection.

Our featured track comes from a rock band that originated in the Southern US state of Florida. Simply titled "Highway Song", it comes from the 1979 Blackfoot album, 'Strikes'.

Blackfoot - "Highway Song" 1979



Blackfoot - "Highway Song" Paris, France 2011 (New Morning club)
With current singer (Mike Estes) and drummer (Kurt Pietro)

Today's Tune: "Train, Train" By Blackfoot

Photo by Pat Huemmer, copyright © April 6, 2002 - RR Pictures Archives

On this day in 2001, there was a train on the loose in Ohio(USA), according to the New York Times.

A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.

I can't help but wonder how the hell something like that happens, and who got fired over it. With that bit of weird history in mind, the 'Today's Tune' for this May 15th is "Train, Train" (1979) by American southern rock band Blackfoot.

Blackfoot - "Train, Train" (1979)