Peter Mulvey on the road, 2006

I had a great time a few months back hitching a ride for a day with rock troubadour Pete Mulvey while he was on tour in upstate New York. The resulting piece, a slice of life on the road, aired last night on NPR's All Things Considered. You can hear the piece at the NPR site. (Don't ask me what the headline "Indie Music Is Retail," as seen on the NPR site, is supposed to mean--those words definitely did not come from me.)

The song heard in the opening, called "Abilene (The Eisenhower Waltz)," can also be heard in full on the Web broadcast All Songs Considered.

More on Peter Mulvey, one of the great voices of the singer-songwriter scene, at his site.