Road Song

Road Song
Studio album by
Wes Montgomery
ReleasedOctober 1968
RecordedMay 7 – 9, 1968
StudiosVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length29:44
LabelA&M
ProducerCreed Taylor
Wes Montgomery chronology
Down Here on the Ground
(1968)		 Road Song
(1968)		 Willow Weep for Me
(1969)

Road Song is an album by the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1968. It reached number one on the Billboard Jazz album chart and number 39 on the R&B album chart. It also reached number 94 on the Billboard Top LP's chart. It was his final recording before his death of a heart attack on June 15, 1968.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStar
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStar
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStar

In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow wrote: "The great guitarist sticks to simple melody statements (with a lot of octaves thrown in) while backed by Don Sebesky's unimaginative arrangements for an orchestra; commercially the combination was a big success… this strictly for-the-money effort can be safely passed by."

Track listing

  1. "Road Song" (Wes Montgomery) – 3:53
  2. "Greensleeves" (Public Domain, Traditional) – 2:04
  3. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 2:53
  4. "Yesterday" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:26
  5. "I'll Be Back" (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:33
  6. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Traditional) – 4:55
  7. "Green Leaves of Summer" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster, Montgomery) – 3:58
  8. "Serene" (Montgomery) – 3:10
  9. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (Pete Seeger) – 3:06

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1968) Peak
position
US Billboard Top LP's 94
US Billboard Best-Selling Jazz LP's 1
US Billboard Hot R&B LP's 39
US Cashbox Top 100 Albums 42
US Record World Top 20 Jazz LP's 1

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". November 9, 1968.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 104. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Road Song > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1028. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 147. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 259. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  7. ↑ "Record World Top 20 Jazz LP's" (PDF). Record World. Vol. 23, no. 1125. December 28, 1968. p. 76. Retrieved March 24, 2026 – via worldradiohistory.com.