{"id":44043,"date":"2026-05-10T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=44043"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:12:04","slug":"meal-ticket-%e2%94%82-code-of-the-road-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-%e2%94%82-code-of-the-road-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Ticket \u2502 Code of the Road (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44044 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-code-of-the-road.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-code-of-the-road.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-code-of-the-road.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-code-of-the-road.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meal-ticket-code-of-the-road.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1977 is niet meer echt een goed jaar voor pubrock: te laat. En al helemaal niet als die ook nog eens geschoeid is op Amerikaanse countryrock, want diametraal ertegenover staat punk. Meal Ticket vecht met hun Britse countryrock dan ook tegen de bierkaai \u2013 al is het goed bier drinken in de pub met de vijf Londense jongens en een Canadees. Midden jaren zeventig bespeelt Meal Ticket, in het zog van bands als Brinsley Schwarz en Bees Make Honey, het Londense pubcircuit met hun aan Poco en The Eagles refererende <!--more-->sound.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In, tja, 1977 komt Meal Tickets debuutplaat <i>Code of the Road<\/i> uit, een waar anachronisme met zijn countryrockliedjes en teksten als <i>You know that stretch of highway linkin&#8217; Pueblo to Cheyenne?<\/i> (<i>OK Bar (Same Old Story)<\/i>), <i>See, I was making this quiet little run from Tampa through Nogales<\/i> (<i>Keepin the Faith<\/i>) en <i>For three months and a day or two she heard his songs for free, In one nite stands like Waco, and Nowhere, Tennessee<\/i> (<i>Georgia Syncopator<\/i>). Meal Ticket maakt zich het idioom helemaal eigen \u2013 zo had het geweldige <i>Last One To Know<\/i> zomaar op een Poco-plaat kunnen staan. <i>Code of the Road<\/i> \u2013 met op de hoes een wegenkaart van de omgeving van Fort Worth\/Dallas, Texas \u2013 is in 1977 zo&#8217;n beetje uit de tijd, wat dus nog meer geldt voor opvolgers <i>Three Times A Day<\/i> (1977) en <i>Take Away<\/i> (1978), maar biedt met een Britse pubrock-knipoog wel onvervalste, ouderwetse countryrock.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Code of the Road<\/i>. EMI Records, 1977. <i>Out of the Blue<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Keepin&#8217; the Faith<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Last One To Know<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>OK Bar (Same Old Story)<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Day Job<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>The Man from Mexico<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Snow<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Golden Girl<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Standing on the Wrong Corner<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>Georgia Syncopator<\/i><i>\u2502<\/i><i>The Code of the Road (Travellers Bible)<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1977 is niet meer echt een goed jaar voor pubrock: te laat. En al helemaal niet als die ook nog eens geschoeid is op Amerikaanse countryrock, want diametraal ertegenover staat punk. Meal Ticket vecht met hun Britse countryrock dan ook tegen de bierkaai \u2013 al is het goed bier drinken in de pub met de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vergeten-klassieker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44046,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043\/revisions\/44046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}