Road songs of hard traveling were made popular by folk singer Woody Guthrie. His style of songwriting was adopted by later folk artist Bob Dylan. The themes of the lyrics of the songs themselves were adopted by almost every musician after Woody. He gave a sense of pride to hard traveling and gave hoboes and wanderers a good name. Woody Guthrie's "Blowin Down the Road" was written with the other Dust Bowl Ballads. It was changed later to "Going Down the Road Feelin Bad" which was covered by the Grateful Dead and numerous folkies. Songs like "Kassie Jones" or "Casey Jones" echoed this folk style of altering words and tunes. The folk song is simply a skeleton for the music. Bob Dylan complained of adoring fans who booed when he refused to perform a song slightly different from the record version. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" is about an engineer who looses control of the locomotive. The other two versions of "Casey Jones" below by the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band bear little resemblance to the original save the motif of the engineer. Blues guitarists and singers Otis Rush and Little Walter depict how the automobile was adopted by blues music some time after the folkies had. Roy Acuff and Roger Miller have liminal songs in country music about travelling only to bring forth such artists as Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. The Doobie Brothers, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, the Doors, Steppenwolf, and Eric Clapton are only included to demonstrate how the songs themselves (in the example of "Crossroads" by Robert Johnson) and the ideas are handed down in each generation and movement of music. I have included Scott Joplin's "Strenuous Life" to accompany the section of the web page entitled Roughing It.