Back when it first came out C.W. McCall had a release called Black Bear Road, that I heard on the radio while down in Texas. it’s about the perils of a family drive over, a rough road, in a rented 4WD vehicle, in the Rockies.
I thought it hilarious and taped it off of the radio so later my dad in Kansas could hear it. I was surprised that he found it so funny he started writing down the words. That’s when he told me that the road in the song is real, and he even showed me a picture of my mother standing beside the warning sign mentioned in the song/ They had been over it in a motorcycle.
I had “Black Bear Road” on vinyl as a kid; the album included “Convoy”. Unfortunately, I didn’t have “Wolf Creek Pass”, which would have warned me about driving that road in winter. Scariest thing I’ve ever done.
