Blog: Star Maker Machine

Roger Miller: King of the Road [ purchase ] When I announced this week's theme on our little collaborative's backchannel listserv, I noted that smoking and tobacco references often function as signifiers of class or social status, and as earlier entries have demonstrated aptly, it's true - though of course, as times evolve and smoking goes underground, old songs can take on new meanings, too, changing one-time rebels into more pitiful social outcasts in the eyes of the beholder. But smoking and its references can also [...]

• Roger Miller - King Of The Road
• Teddy Thompson & Rufus Wainwright - King Of The Road
• The Proclaimers - King of the Road