My brother loves heavy metal music, it was developed in the late 1960's, early 1970's
I dont know very much about it, I think I may have heard it before.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
In 1968, three of the genre's
Hank Williams Jr. refers to the song in his own song All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down), with "I think I know what my father meant, when he sang about a lost highway".
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- Elton Britt performed the song on his 1960 album "Beyond The Sunset".
- In 1965, Bob Dylan sang it with Joan Baez off-stage in a hotel room during 1965 British tour. It can be seen in the 1967 film "Dont Look Back"