Readers Recommend: songs about obstacles | Peter Kimpton
by Peter Kimpton from on (#M2CF)
Rivers to roadblocks, brick walls to tall orders, whether literal, metaphorical, psychological or cultural, raise up songs about barriers for this week's playlist
Your musical mission this week? To get across to the other side. What's standing in your way? Bars? The sound barrier? Neither, but to make it you must traverse the special RR obstacle course of topical songs and sounds. And we're off "
Standing at the first obstacle is a huge object. It is actually a very big and hairy man. His name is Steve Earle, and he highlights the first obstacle - self-belief, focus, energy: "I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself."
