Blogocentric Formulations

Highway Tune

"The Soundtrack of Your Life"  | DAY 1

"Highway Tune" by Greta Van Fleet

I had never heard of Greta Van Fleet, let alone any of their songs, until I saw Trailer #2   for Ford v. Ferrari in mid-September of last year. The movie ended up being one of my absolute favorites of all of last year, and both trailers for the film are exceptionally well-cut. I'm sure my enjoyment of the movie and all the racing footage played a part in the appeal of the song, as that's usually how I find new music.

Greta Van Fleet is a band from Michigan that formed in 2012, and released their debut studio album in 2017. This was the debut single off that album. It rose to the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in just 14 weeks, the fastest ascent on that chart by an original band (i.e., not a solo musician breaking away from their original group) since 2001. Their sound has been called reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and, yeah, I can kind of hear that in this song and a couple of their others that I've checked out since discovering them.

At the moment, this song is in pretty heavy rotation on my driving playlist, which is mostly high-energy songs that I like to blast during the commute when I'm tired and the audiobooks and podcasts aren't doing me any favors with keeping my eyes open. During those times I'll crank some energetic music to wake myself up. The only problem is that after seeing it set against a racing movie, I'm usually disappointed when I ultimately have to accept the fact that I'm not racing a GT40 in Daytona, but rather cruising down a Southern California freeway at a blistering 15 miles per hour. Still, I really enjoy the song and it does a great job of getting me excited to be behind the wheel of a car, even if it's just commuting back and forth between home and the office.