"Which us writer wrote ""On The Road"" in 1958?"
"published after ""On the Road"". ""It describes the state of mind from which all unessentials have been stripped, leaving it receptive to everything around it, but impatient with trivial obstructions. To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."" On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel,"
"On the Road (Lee Roy Parnell song) ""On the Road"" is a song written by Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Roy Parnell. It was released in August 1993 as the lead-off single and title track from his album of the same name. It peaked at number 6 in the United States, and number 12 in Canada. The song consists of three vignettes featuring various characters (a neglected young wife, an underachieving teenager whose father has voiced his disappointment in him, and a retired couple whose children have forgotten them and never visit), who all flee"
"The Road (song) ""The Road"" is the opening track of """", a 1988 live album by The Kinks. It was written by The Kinks' primary songwriter, Ray Davies. Described as ""a chronicle of the band's typical touring experiences"" by ""AllMusic""'s Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ""The Road"" mentions the singer's experiences in with ""bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons ... loser bars and the noisy rooms ... [and] the casualties who did too many lines."" This topic of touring has been addressed by Ray Davies multiple times prior to the writing of this song, from ""This Time Tomorrow"" from ""Lola Versus"
"On the Road (film) On the Road () is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel ""On the Road"" and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen. The executive producers were Francis Ford Coppola, Patrick Batteux, Jerry Leider, and Tessa Ross. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the"
"On the Road (The Country Gentlemen album) On the Road is a live album by the bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1963. It continues to offer some of the best collection of songs by the first classic lineup of the group. The album originally contained 13 songs, selection from 2 concerts in 1962 and 1963. In 2001, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album as a CD with 6 bonus tracks, recorded at Carnegie Hall on September 16, 1961.The album offers blend of folk and bluegrass music, while expanding compositions of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley as well as traditional songs to"
"The Road The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic novel detailing the journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat. A father and his"
"Killer on the Road Killer on the Road is a crime novel by James Ellroy. First published in 1986, it is a non-series book between the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy and the L.A. Quartet. It was first released by Avon as a mass-market paperback original under the title Silent Terror, and has since been republished in the US under Ellroy's original title ""Killer on the Road"", first as a mass-market paperback in 1990 and later as a trade paperback in 1999. After the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, written in the third person, ""Killer on the Road"" returns to the first-person narrative style"
"their troubled or unfulfilling lives (in a Ford Fairlane, and ""hot rod Chevy"" and an Airstream trailer, respectively) and find adventure on the road. The music video was directed by Michael Oblowitz. ""On the Road"" debuted at number 67 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 21, 1993. On the Road (Lee Roy Parnell song) ""On the Road"" is a song written by Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Roy Parnell. It was released in August 1993 as the lead-off single and title track from his album of the"
"novel ""On the Road"" (1957). In her review in ""The New York Times"", Tara McKelvey wrote ""Kerouac’s soul lives on through many people — Joyce Johnson, for one — but few have been as adept as Weaver at capturing both him and the New York bohemia of the time. He was lucky to have met her."" Helen Weaver grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Warren Weaver, was a scientist, author, and world traveler who was Director of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty-seven years. Her mother, Mary Hemenway Weaver, taught Latin and ancient history. Weaver graduated"
"project. ""On the Road"" became a regular feature on ""The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"" in 1967. Kuralt hit the road in a motor home (he wore out six before he was through) with a small crew and avoided the interstates in favor of the nation's back roads in search of America's people and their doings. He said, ""Interstate highways allow you to drive coast to coast, without seeing anything"". According to Thomas Steinbeck, the older son of John Steinbeck, the inspiration for ""On the Road"" was Steinbeck's ""Travels with Charley"" (whose title was initially considered as the name"
"narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for ""On the Road"", Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. When the book was originally released, ""The New York Times"" hailed it as ""the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is."" In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""On the Road"" 55th"
"On the Road (George Carlin album) On the Road is the eighth album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on October 3, 1976 at the Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, and released in April 1977. The album was also included as part of the 1999 ""The Little David Years (1971-1977)"" box set. The original LP included a ""libretto"" - a word-for-word transcript of the album. ""On the Road"" would be Carlin's last album for three years because he suffered a heart attack in 1978 and took some time off afterwards before he would release ""A Place"
"write regularly. Building upon previous drafts tentatively titled ""The Beat Generation"" and ""Gone on the Road,"" Kerouac completed what is now known as ""On the Road"" in April 1951, while living at 454 West 20th Street in Manhattan with his second wife, Joan Haverty. The book was largely autobiographical and describes Kerouac's road-trip adventures across the United States and Mexico with Neal Cassady in the late 40s and early 50s, as well as his relationships with other Beat writers and friends. He completed the first version of the novel during a three-week extended session of spontaneous confessional prose. Kerouac wrote"
"On My Way (Louis Armstrong song) ""On My Way"" is a Louis Armstrong song that appeared on the album ""Louis and the Good Book"" in 1958 and was issued with ""I'll String Along with You"" as a single in 1959. It features a solo section with Louis and Trummy Young. A variant of I'm on My Way (traditional song), Armstrong's version starts with ""On My Way"" or ""I'm on My Way"" (or similar phrases in various versions) and then goes into a chorus ""On my way now, got on my traveling shoes..."". The song is no relation to ""Oh, Lawd,"
"Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road is a compilation album by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. The centrepiece of the record is a 28-minute recitation by Kerouac from his book ""On the Road"" that was recorded on an acetate disc in the 1950s but thought lost for decades, and had only recently been rediscovered at the time of release. Other tracks feature Kerouac singing renditions of Jazz hits from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s alongside songs and poems of his own composition. The album closes with a cover of Kerouac's track ""On the"
"On the Road (Jimmie Johnson) On the Road is a self-published coffee table book written by the NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra, with photographs taken by Missy McLamb. It was released in September 2012. ""On the Road"" covers a behind-the-scenes look at NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and his family during the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup, in which he attempted to win his sixth Sprint Cup Series title, having won the championship during five consecutive seasons between 2006 and 2010. Johnson ultimately finished sixth in the final point standings, his worst points finish since joining the"
"The Road (2009 film) The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic drama film directed by John Hillcoat from a screenplay written by Joe Penhall, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name by the American author Cormac McCarthy. Principal photography took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Washington, and Oregon. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. ""The Road"" received a limited release in North American cinemas from November 25, 2009, and was released in United Kingdom cinemas on January 4, 2010. The film received generally positive reviews"
"Somewhere Along the Way ""Somewhere Along the Way"" is a popular song. The music was written by Jimmy Van Heusen under the pseudonym Kurt Adams, the lyrics by Sammy Gallop. The sheet music was published in 1952. The original recording by Nat King Cole was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2069. It first reached the ""Billboard"" Best Seller chart on May 23, 1952 and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at #8. The song became the opening track to Nat's 1952 album ""8 Top Pops"". Cole re-recorded the song in stereo for his album ""The Nat King"
"On the Road Again (Canned Heat song) ""On the Road Again"" is a song recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967. A driving blues-rock boogie, it was adapted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Unlike most of Canned Heat's songs from the period, second guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. ""On the Road Again"" first appeared on their second album, ""Boogie with Canned Heat"", in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a single in April 1968, ""On the Road Again"" became Canned Heat's first record"
"the more progressive bluegrass sound. On the Road (The Country Gentlemen album) On the Road is a live album by the bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1963. It continues to offer some of the best collection of songs by the first classic lineup of the group. The album originally contained 13 songs, selection from 2 concerts in 1962 and 1963. In 2001, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album as a CD with 6 bonus tracks, recorded at Carnegie Hall on September 16, 1961.The album offers blend of folk and bluegrass music, while expanding compositions of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley as"
"I'm on My Way!"", a song sung by Ella Fitzgerald the previous year (1957) on the ""Porgy and Bess"" album by Fitzgerald and Armstrong. That song begins: ""Porgy and all, I'm on my way to a heav'nly lan. On My Way (Louis Armstrong song) ""On My Way"" is a Louis Armstrong song that appeared on the album ""Louis and the Good Book"" in 1958 and was issued with ""I'll String Along with You"" as a single in 1959. It features a solo section with Louis and Trummy Young. A variant of I'm on My Way (traditional song), Armstrong's version starts"
"Found (1986-1989)"" and ""Picture Book"". Despite citing the song as a highlight from both """" and ""Lost & Found (1986-1989)"", Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that ""like the rest of [""""], the song wasn't anything special."" The Road (song) ""The Road"" is the opening track of """", a 1988 live album by The Kinks. It was written by The Kinks' primary songwriter, Ray Davies. Described as ""a chronicle of the band's typical touring experiences"" by ""AllMusic""'s Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ""The Road"" mentions the singer's experiences in with ""bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons ... loser bars and the noisy rooms"
"an engaging reader/performer himself."" Unterberger goes on to say that Kerouac's singing is ""unexpected, and amusing if not brilliant"". Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road is a compilation album by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. The centrepiece of the record is a 28-minute recitation by Kerouac from his book ""On the Road"" that was recorded on an acetate disc in the 1950s but thought lost for decades, and had only recently been rediscovered at the time of release. Other tracks feature Kerouac singing renditions of Jazz hits from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s"
"The Lonesome Road ""The Lonesome Road"" is a 1927 song with music by Nathaniel Shilkret and lyrics by Gene Austin, alternately titled ""Lonesome Road"", ""Look Down that Lonesome Road"" and ""Lonesome Road Blues."" It was written in the style of an African-American folk song. The lyricist and composer were both extremely popular recording artists. Gene Austin estimated he sold 80 million records, and Nathaniel Shilkret's son estimated his father sold 50 million records. Joel Whitburn lists recordings by Austin, Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, and Shilkret (see list of recordings below) as being ""charted"" at Numbers 10, 12, 3 and 10,"
"slog."" Jake Coyle from the Associated Press stated that ""[a]dapting a masterpiece such as ""The Road"" is a thankless task, but the film doesn't work on its own merits"". The DVD and Blu-ray versions were released on May 17, 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on May 25, 2010 in the United States. The Road (2009 film) The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic drama film directed by John Hillcoat from a screenplay written by Joe Penhall, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name by the American author Cormac McCarthy. Principal photography took place in Pennsylvania,"
"was changed by the publication of Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"" in 1957, as it sketched out the future for the road movie and provided its ""master narrative"" of exploration, questing, and journeying. The book includes many descriptions of driving in cars. It also depicted the character Sal Paradise, a middle class college student who goes on the road to seek material for his writing career, a bounded journey with a clear start and finish which differs from the open ended wandering of previous films, with characters making chance encounters with other drivers who influence where one travels or ends"
"The Perilous Road The Perilous Road is a novel, published in 1958 by William O. Steele. The book is set in Eastern Tennessee during the time of the American Civil War. In 1959, ""The Perilous Road"" was awarded the Newbery Honor. Chris Brabson is a boy whose family lives in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee during the Civil War. His family encounters hard times when cavalry soldiers of the Union Army come and take most of his family's food and their one and only plow horse leaving them little supplies to sustain the winter. Chris vowes to get even with"
"on Earth"" which became an immediate ""New York Times"" best seller, was reprinted in paperback in July 2016 and has been translated into five languages. From 1964 to 1966 Podell was co-leader of the Trans-World Record Expedition, which made the longest, direct, non-repetitive automobile trip around the world. His book about this expedition, ""Who Needs A Road"", is still in print after 48 years. In December 2012 Podell completed a five-decade mission to visit every country in the world and became, it is believed, the first American to achieve that goal. His book about this quest is titled ""Around the"
"Road"", which was published in 1958, won the Newbery Honor in 1959. ""Winter Danger"" earned the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. He was married to another author, Mary Quintard Govan. He died in 1979. William O. Steele William Owen Steele (December 22, 1917 – June 25, 1979) was an American author from Tennessee. William O. Steele was born in 1917 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was the son of Core and Sue. He spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home. This led to an interest in the history of the area and of its"
"On the Jellicoe Road On the Jellicoe Road is a young adult novel by Australian novelist Melina Marchetta. It was first published in Australia in 2006 by Penguin Australia under the title ""On the Jellicoe Road"", where it was awarded the 2008 West Australia Young Readers Book (WAYRB) Award for Older Readers. It was later published in the United States in 2008 under the abbreviated title ""Jellicoe Road"" by HarperTeen and went on to win the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association. The story is set around the life of Taylor Lily Markham, the 17-year-old leader"
"on the road."" According to Kristine Layfield, the CBC executive director of network programming, it was fortunate that the show had aired on January 7, 2008, whilst the Writers Guild of America-led strikes continued in the United States, as it would give the audience something different from watch, especially if CBC Television benefited from the strikes to gain more viewers. James McGowan had said that he eagerly agreed to be cast as the show's protagonist after meeting with Raymont and Tracey because ""Their humanity really influences this show ... it's their convictions that are at the heart of the whole"
"One's on the Way ""One's on the Way"" is a song made famous by country music singer Loretta Lynn. Originally released in 1971, the song was the title track to her 1971 album and became one of her best-known hits. It was written by Shel Silverstein. Country music writer Tom Roland described ""One's on the Way"" as a ""humorous piece on motherhood,"" wherein a stay-at-home mother in Topeka, Kansas (pregnant with the latest in a family of several children) contemplates her hectic lifestyle and compares her conditions to the glamor-based lives of Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. The song also"
"It was later made for television by renowned director Alan Clarke and starred many young actors who later became well-known including Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady and Lesley Sharp. Road was produced in New York by Lincoln Center Theater at La MaMa Etc. in 1988, with a cast including Joan Cusack and Kevin Bacon. Road (play) Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986. The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in"