EXPLORATIONS: SONIC HIGHWAYS
Corey Bell, Stage Traveler & Blogger
The Blue Ridge Parkway:
Mountain Twilight, Smoky Dawn, & Sunshine in the Trees
A Playlist from
Sonic Highways: Musical Immersion on the Roads of America
**It's Blue Ridge Parkway Week at Stage Traveler! Along with the following post, I will posting special articles, videos, images, and other goodies related to my favorite local/national byway! Stay tuned to our Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and of course right here on the site to catch all the sights and sounds. LezzzGo!
Part 1: Mountain Twilight
- “Into the Rainbow Vein” – Boards of Canada
- “White Winter Hymnal” – Fleet Foxes
- “Joga” – Björk
- “Holocene” – Bon Iver
- “All We Ask” – Grizzly Bear
- “Only Pieces” – Here We Go Magic
- “Burial” – Miike Snow
- “Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs Off the Sky)” – Radiohead
- “Winter’s Love” – Animal Collective
- “In The Devil’s Territory” – Sufjan Stevens
- “Blue Bird” – The Rosebuds
- “Roads” – Portishead
- “Crystalised” – The xx
- “The Birth and Death of the Day” – Explosions in the Sky
- “Halcyon + On + On” – Orbital
- “Let Go” – Frou Frou
- “Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion” – Oliver Tank
Part 2: The Smokey Dawn
- “Agnus Dei” – Rufus Wainwright
- “Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois” – Sufjan Stevens
- “Humming” – Portishead
- “How to Disappear Completely” – Radiohead
- “The Great Gig in the Sky” – Pink Floyd
- “Depak Ine” – John Talabot
- “Zebra” – Beach House
- “Hoppípola” – Sigur Rós
- “Bluish” – Animal Collective
- “Music to Walk Home By” – Tame Impala
- “White Sky” – Vampire Weekend
- “Amber” – 311
- “Over the Hills and Far Away” – Led Zeppelin
- “Under African Skies” – Paul Simon
- “Blue Ridge Mountains” – Fleet Foxes
- “Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals As I Run” – Sufjan Stevens
Part 3: Sunshine in the Trees
- “Wide Eyes” – Local Natives
- “Amor Fati” – Washed Out
- “Telephasic Workshop” – Boards of Canada
- “Myth” – Beach House
- “What Would I Want? Sky” – Animal Collective
- “Where I’m Going” – Cut Copy
- “True Loves” – Hooray for Earth
- “Sidewalk Safari” – Chairlift
- “1901” – Phoenix
- “Star Guitar” – Chemical Brothers
- “Last Night at the Jetty” – Panda Bear
- “Country” – Empire of the Sun
- “Remind Me” – Röyksopp
- “Stay Close” – Delorean
- “We Are the Sleepyheads” – Belle & Sebastian
- “Keep the Customer Satisfied” – Simon & Garfunkel
- “Apocalypse Dreams” – Tame Impala
- “The Shrine/An Argument” – Fleet Foxes
- “Cello Song” – Nick Drake
- “Tee Pees 1-12” – Father John Misty
- “Road to Joy” – Bright Eyes