An eight-hour road trip with my dad who likes country when I like classic rock

This’ll get you started:

01. Drive-By Truckers - “Rebels” (The Fine Print)
02. Levon Helm- “Dance Me Down Easy” (American Son)
03. Lynyrd Skynyrd - “T is for Texas” (One More From the Road)
04. Marty Robbins - “Devil Woman” (Devil Woman)
05. Dwight Yoakam - “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Just Lookin’ For a Hit)
06. Murder By Death - “Spring Break 1899” (Red of Tooth and Claw)
07. Neil Young - “From Hank to Hendrix (unplugged)” (Unplugged)
08. Old 97’s - “Mama Tried” (Hitchhike to Rhome)
09. Keb Mo - “Folsom Prison Blues” (Kindrid Spirits: A Tribute to Johnny Cash)
10. Steve Earle - “Hardin Wouldn’t Run” (Kindrid Spirits)
11. Jason Isbell - “Shotgun Wedding” (Sirens of the Ditch)
12. Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson - “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” (VH1 Storytellers)
13. Dierks Bentley - “Somewhere in Mississippi” (Somewhere in Mississippi)
14. The Rolling Stones - “Dear Doctor/Factory Girl” (Beggar’s Banquet)
15. The Band - “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (live)” (The Last Waltz)
16. Molly Hatchet - “Sweet Dixie” (No Guts… No Glory)
17. Elton John - “Country Comfort” (Tumbleweed Connection)
18. Ween - “You Were the Fool” (12 Golden Country Hits)
19. Kris Kristofferson - “Me and Bobby McGee” (Kristofferson)
20. Jerry Jeff Walker - “I Spent All My Money Lovin’ You” (Contrary to Ordinary)
21. Delbert McClinton - “Mama’s Little Baby” (Acquired Taste)

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