On the Road Again

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On the Road Again is a country song written by Willie Nelson for the 1979 film Honeysuckle Rose . While the film fell into disuse, the song became not only one of Nelson's greatest hits, but also a crossover hit in country and pop.

Emergence

Nelson recorded the piece, which is about life as a band musician, in Los Angeles in the fall of 1979 . In addition to Nelson (vocals, acoustic guitar), Michey Raphael (harmonica), Johnny Gimble (guitar), Jody Payne (guitar), Bee Spears (bass), Rex Ludwick (drums) and Paul Englisch (drums and percussion) worked as musicians. With.

Achievements and Awards

The piece not only reached number one on the Billboard country charts , but also number 20 on the pop charts. It also ranked seventh on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts.

In 1981 the song won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song . Nelson was also nominated for his vocal performance. It was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Movie Song category. Joe Nick Patoski wrote in the booklet for the compilation One Hell of a Ride that On the Road Again had become the “national anthem for wanderlust”. In Rolling Stone's list of the 500 best songs of all time, the title ranks 471.

Use in film and television

The piece has been used in several films and television series such as Forrest Gump , South Park and Shrek . In the 2002 episode Mr. Monk and Willie Nelson of the US crime series Monk , Nelson played the song with his band.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Roland: The Billboard Book Of Number One Country Hits. New York City / New York: Billboard Books; London: Guinness Publishing Ltd., 1991, pp. 270 f.
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 426.

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