Blitzen Trapper ’s 2011 record album American Goldwing gets its namesake from Honda ’s huge , heavy , highway - devour touring motorcycle . And it ’s fitting , because there ai n’t many albums that live up to the terminal figure “ road medicine ” the way this one does .
There ’s not much to canvass here : riffs with just the right amount of crush ; lyrics that babble out about whiskey , woman , combat , and hitting the route ; and just enough sliding board guitar to evoke a gentle wind of nation , before country moved to a McMansion and started plastering RealTree and Remington stickers on everything .
This is the kind of medicine that inspires impromptu road stumble , last - second border runs , liberate full - throttle blast out of the city and into the open stark dark . The mostly - latent expression of what Hunter S. Thompson called the Linkhorn gene , that repressed desire for the freedom of the route and fell survive .
We might not all be able to do that Linkhorn call , but with the right soundtrack , we can at least get the atmosphere right . [ Blitzen Trapper ] [ iTunes ] [ Amazon ] [ Spotify ]
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