Open All Night: On the Road (2001)

About this title: This installment of Rhino's Open All Night series makes it explicit that the 18 songs are designed for driving -- even though that was pretty much understood to be the intent of the other volumes of Open All Night. This time, there are some songs that explicitly address the road (Little Village's rather irritating "Don't Think About Her When You're Trying to Drive") or the night (Willard Grant Conspiracy's "Another Lonely Night," Alejandro Escovedo's "Pissed off 2 AM"), or songs that just sound really, really good while driving down lonely roads in the middle of the night (Robbie Robertson's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Don't Think About Her When You're Trying to Drive [Cooder/Hiatt/Keltne]
2. Cold Comfort [Bloom]
3. Somewhere Down the Crazy River [Robertson]
4. Dance With the Tiger [Cash/Stewart]
5. Waltzing's for Dreamers [Thompson]
6. Have a Little Faith in Me [Hiatt]
7. The Whole Night Sky [Cockburn]
8. Far, Far Away [Tweedy]
9. I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine [McCoy/McKinney]
10. Wrapping Paper [Parker]
11. Dig Down Deep [Cohn]
12. Mockingbirds [Phillips]
13. Into Temptation [Finn]
14. Beloved Wife [Merchant]
15. Another Lonely Night [Fisher/Austin]
16. Slate [Farrar/Tweedy]
17. Sante Fe [Amos]
18. Pissed off 2 AM [Escovedo]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.