AJ Croce was only days away from his second birthday when his father, Jim Croce, passed in a plane crash—but that was only the beginning of AJ’s difficult story.

Dan Fielding should have been unbearable. John Larroquette somehow made him irresistible.

Some songs make you want to book a flight, fill the gas tank, or disappear down a highway just to see what happens. The best travel songs aren’t always about perfect vacations. Sometimes they are about escape, restlessness, heartbreak, freedom, home, or the feeling that life might finally change once the scenery does.