Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow

[@cramer7854]

Those lyrics have been haunting my soul for almost 40 years. It is one of the most intelligent and literate songs ever written.

[@KennyRademeyer]

Al Stewart stands alone on his own. Period. I can listen to him all day long!

[@bobbyozb]

Al Stewart...One of the best songwriters of all time.....He really is the most underrated performer of all time.

[@zendean5207]

No matter how he plays it, it is one of the most beautiful songs ever written by anyone. If you can listen to this without crying, you have no soul.

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

This is a classic folk song, performed by an artist with a great voice and a love of history. Have enjoyed Al's music for over 35 years, it is timeless!!!!

[@CatBlueBat]

Magnificent. One of my favorite Al Stewart songs. Got to see Al and Dave play this live a few years ago - but the choir here just makes it brilliant.

[@clarksouthoff3840]

My late mother, told me of my great Uncle Herman. He visited Alberta in the late 1930's.

[@robertroemhildt8663]

I have seen Al Stewart live twice. It was my first concert many many years ago, I was warned that it would never be as good as the record I had played into the ground. It was so much better. 45 years later it is still still amazing music.

[@LAStreetPreacher]

Al Stewart's voice sounds as young and fresh as it did in his youth. Amazing. The Year of the Cat was a favorite of mine in my high school days.

[@rickjohnson9558]

"They turn and listen closer....." Horrifying. I've known this song for nearly fifty years, never loses its power.

[@MikeRobWil]

There's nobody like Al Stewart. His songs, albums and concerts have been a big part of my life since the late 1970's. If you haven't seen him "live," do!

[@GildaLee27]

What a thrill to volunteer as Al Stewart's backup singer at one of his concerts!!! Lucky dogs!

[@elpolarbear]

his voice and delivery...are haunting.and the lyrics are powerful

[@timsullivan4566]

"The fire in the air, glowing red, silhouetting the dust on the breeze"

[@falcon5467]

I'll never understand how this song wasn't a bigger deal. Some future generation is going to "discover" Al Stewart's songs and be in disbelief that he wasn't a superstar for the quality of songwriting and music he created.

[@Meraloma73]

I first heard Roads to Moscow on FM radio in the mid 70's. FM radio was quite different back in the day.

[@richardfeynman8843]

I remember around the time this song came out I was reading Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s trilogy, “Gulag Archipelago”. His vivid descriptions of survival an death in the labor camps of the Kolyma and elsewhere haunt me to this day. The last lines of this song allude to the prelude to this story,

[@maruska67]

I'm so glad there are more of Al Stewart's songs. It brings back a time when I was grounded and couldn't play with my friends, so I would turn the radio and watch my friends play all day long. Those good all days. lol Thanks for sharing one of the many beautiful songs of Mr Stewart. Can't help liking that Spanish guitarist.

[@jamesg7037]

That song is so beautiful, lyrically literate, and poetic. Any recorded version of it can't help be good. Bless you Al Stewart, kind and generous soul, and stirrer of many thoughts.... Your work is appreciated, and enjoyed by a next generation of wide-eyed honest enjoyers in this house.

[@mattking1091]

I was lucky enough to have been the accompanying still photographer during an interview of Al Stewart in 1997 (?) when he was touring Canada in support of "Year of the Cat". He shared a great anecdote about this song. Due to its length, it didn't necessarily receive a lot of airplay - except in certain areas, which tended to have a lot of FM radio listeners. There were a number of those in Canada. Al Stewart and his band hadn't expected to get calls for "Road to Moscow" on that tour. To their great surprise, the first Canadian audience - in Montreal I think - were very disappointed when it wasn't played, and they made their disappointment heard! So the band learned the song as quickly as they could, and it got added to the playlists from then on.