June 23, 2026
Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. - The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keen
The song is basically Texas outlaw mythology compressed into four minutes. Sonny and Sherry are not heroes in any moral sense, but Keen writes them with enough speed, grit, and sympathy that I just lean into it. It is kin to “Pancho and Lefty,” “Me and Bobby McGee,” and old murder ballads, but with a roadhouse Texas frame and a sharper, bar-band chorus.