It’s just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Ricardo, some friends and I are about to drive seven hours from Denver to the in southwestern Colorado. We’re picking up Heather Browne of in Colorado Springs on the way down. She promised coffee and homemade “peanut butter oatmeal choco chip cookies” … for breakfast.
There’s a lot of pavement to eat up today. I emailed Heather on Monday night and asked her to make a few CDs for the road — I’ve been going through stacks of my own over the past couple days. And that’s how this mix tape came to be. It’s 10 songs of Heather’s liking, 10 of mine, all loosely related to the road, the mountains, Americana and adventure. We’re going to listen to it this morning in the car, and we’ll be updating with stories and photos of our trip several times a day, every day, for the next five days. Follow our latest exploits on and , and check Reverb Thursday-Monday mornings for comprehensive previews, reviews and photo galleries of all things Telluride 2011. Here’s to summer.
The Road to Telluride
Side A: Fuel/Friends
1. “Let It Ride” – Ryan Adams
2. “Stop The Bus” – Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
3. “July 4, 2004” – Jason Anderson
4. “Can’t Hardly Wait” – The Replacements
5. “Another Travelin’ Song” (live) – Bright Eyes
6. “Unless It’s Kicks” – Okkervil River
7. “We’re All Stuck Out In The Desert” – Johnathan Rice
8. “Penny On The Train Track” – Ben Kweller
9. “Walt Whitman Bridge” – Marah
10. “You Are The Everything” (R.E.M) – Redbird
Side B: Reverb
1. “The Modern Age” – The Strokes
2. “Louisiana” – The Walkmen
3. “That’s Not The Issue” – Wilco
4. “Poor Man” – Old Crow Medicine Show
5. “Wide Open Road” – Johnny Cash
6. “Arms Like Boulders” – The War On Drugs
7. “Freak Train” – Kurt Vile
8. “Lost Highway” – Hank Williams
9. “The Mountain” – Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band
10. “Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane” – The Avett Brothers
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John Hendrickson is the Managing Editor of Reverb and a multimedia journalist for The Denver Post. Follow his rants on music and more on .
Heather Browne is the Colorado Springs-based editor of the music blog and a contributor to Reverb.
