VA — Hot Rods & Custom Classics: Cruisin\’ Songs & Highway Hits (1999)
MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks, cue, log) | Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Pop Rock, Surf | 3h 47 min | 522 MB / 1.02 GB
Here\’s an educated guess that road tapes are the second most popular type of homemade mix cassette. (One suspects that old off-road standard—the bedroom mix—would clock in at No. 1.) Hot Rods & Custom Classics is Rhino Records\’ big daddy of road mixes: four discs housed in an elaborate box that includes a scrupulously assembled 66-page booklet, a catalog of hot-rod accessories, a strip of decals, and even a set of fuzzy dice for your own resto rod. Musically, this collection is all over the road, rag from selections that seem like they were written with one foot on the accelerator (Johnny Bond\’s \»Hot Rod Lincoln,\» Chuck Berry\’s \»Maybelline,\» War\’s \»Low Rider\») to more tangential tracks that might force you to pull into a rest stop (Hank Williams\’s mournful \»Lost Highway,\» Rod Stewart\’s \»Gasoline Alley\»). Spanning multiple genres and five decades, Custom Classics is enlivened by film and ad snippets, including a public-safety message from high-speed-crash victim James Dean on, naturally, safe highway driving. —Steven Stolder
CD 1
1. Intro — New Car Attitude (0:22)
2. Ronnie Dee — Action Packed (2:12)
3. The Duals — Stick Shift (2:28)
4. Tex Rubinowitz — Hot Rod Man (2:27)
5. The Stray Cats — Hotrod Gang (2:45)
6. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps — Cruisin\’ (2:11)
7. Golden Earrring — Radar Love (5:02)
8. David Lindley — Mercury Blues (3:32)
9. Chuck Berry & Hit Combo — Maybelline (2:18)
10. Robert Mitchum — The Ballad Of Thunder Road (2:29)
11. Duane Eddy (His \’Twangy\’ Guitar & The Rebels) — Forty Miles Of Bad Road (2:03)
12. Paul Revere & The Raiders — SS 396 (2:27)
13. Dinah Shore — See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet (1:22)
14. The Beach Boys — Little Deuce Coup (1:38)
15. The Collins Kids — Hot Rod (1:49)
16. Howlin\’ Wolf — Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy) (2:46)
17. Hank Williams — Lost Highway (2:39)
18. Junior Brown — Highway Patrol (2:33)
19. Bill Monroe — Heavy Traffic Ahead (2:50)
20. Mr. Bear & His Bearcats — Radar (2:34)
21. Johnny \’Guitar\’ Watson — Motorhead Baby (2:34)
22. Denny Freeman — Led Sled (2:40)
23. Rev Off — Steve Werthr\’s 1951 Mercury Custom & Mike Young\’s 1960 Chevrolet \’Exotica\’ Impala (2:11)
CD 2
1. Doobie Brothers — Rockin\’ Down The Highway (3:20)
2. The Rip Chords — Hey Little Cobra (1:59)
3. Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonies — Hot Rod Queen (2:16)
4. Johnny Bond — Hot Rod Lincoln (2:44)
5. Ramblin\’ Jimmie Dolan — Hot Rod Race (2:08)
6. Intermission — Drag Race (1:04)
7. Curtis Gordon — Draggin\’ (1:47)
8. Johnny Fortune — Dragster (2:28)
9. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps — Race With The Devil (2:01)
10. B-52\’s — Devil In My Car (4:28)
11. George Thorogood & The Destroyes — Ride On Josephine (4:21)
12. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cat — Rocket \’88\’ (2:46)
13. Little Walter & His Jukes — Key To The Highway (2:43)
14. War — Low Rider (3:05)
15. Thee Midniters — Whittier Blvd. (2:28)
16. Billy \’The Kid\’ Emerson — Every Woman I Know (2:42)
17. Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three — One Piece At A (4:01)
18. Albert King — Cadillac Assembly Line (4:22)
19. Maurice King & His Wolverines — I Want A Lavendar Cadillac (2:53)
20. Baker Knight & The Knightmares — Bring My Cadillac Back (2:25)
21. Sammy Masters & His Rocking Rhyth — Pink Cadillac (2:18)
22. Nervous Nervus — Transfusion (2:23)
23. Dave Edmunds — Crawling From The Wreckage (2:51)
24. Jan & Dean — Dead Man\’s Curve (2:28)
25. James Dean — 1955 Interview (3:07)
CD 3
1. The Collegians — Let\’s Go For A Ride (2:13)
2. Canned Heat — On The Road Again (3:21)
3. John Hiatt — Drive South (3:47)
4. Big Boy Grovers & Band — I Gotta New Car (2:37)
5. Chuck Berry & His Combo — No Money Down (2:55)
6. Dave Edmunds — Dear Dad (1:48)
7. Leon Smith — Little Forty Ford (1:43)
8. The Grand Prix — \’41 Ford (2:00)
9. Phrane — \’64 Ford (3:29)
10. The Green Hornets — Stolen Car (2:40)
11. The Ramones — Go Lil\’ Camaro Go (2:02)
12. Bo Diddley — Road Runner (2:44)
13. The Playmates — Beep Beep (2:41)
14. The Delicates — Black & White Thunderbird (2:11)
15. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps — Pink Thunderbird (2:31)
16. The Customs — \’54 Corvette (1:37)
17. The Routers — Sting Ray (1:53)
18. Nelson Riddle — Route 66 Theme (2:08)
19. Jan & Arnie — Gas Money (2:22)
20. Rod Stewart — Gasoline Alley (5:02)
CD 4
1. Wilson Pickett — Mustang Sally (3:05)
2. Arlen Sanders — Hopped-Up-Mustang (3:12)
3. Dick Dale & His Del-Tones — Wild, Wild Mustang (1:41)
4. The Quads — 409 (2:03)
5. The Spaniels — Automobiles (2:18)
6. Mose Allison — V-8 Ford Blues (2:12)
7. Sonny Boy Williamson — Pontiac Blues (2:39)
8. Ronnie & The Daytonas — G.T.O. (2:29)
9. Carol & Cheryl — Go Go G.T.O. (1:36)
10. Buddy Randell & The Knickerbockers — Bite Bite Barracuda (2:06)
11. Honey Boy Allen — Ford V-8 (2:23)
12. Chuck Berry — No Paticular Place To Go (2:41)
13. The Shutdowns — Four In The Floor (1:46)
14. Jimmy Carroll — Big Green Car (2:32)
15. The Four Teens — Spark Plug (2:18)
16. The Medallions — Buick 59 (2:34)
17. The Fugitives — Freeway (2:18)
18. Pure Prairie League — Two Lane Highway (4:04)
19. Dave Dudley — Six Days On The Raod (2:11)
20. The Flying Burrito Bros. — Wheels (3:49)
