Rolling Stone ranked “Driver’s Seat” as one of the 50 best road trip songs of all time, on a list that included driving classics by Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, and Tom Petty. The outlet noted the song featured “an acoustic guitar rhythm that never quit, even as it swerved around a Moog solo and the fragmented alienation of the lyrics.”
In an interview with Rock History Music, Roberts said he went for a walk at 2 a.m. and heard a riff in his head. He went home to work on the chords and later realized it was somebody else’s riff. “The O’Jays or somebody like that,” he said. “It was kind of a dance floor riff. So I just stayed with the rhythm guitar part and built the song on that.”
“The driver's seat, I mean, I think it just means not literally getting into a car but just taking control of your own destiny, that's all,“ he said during a 2024 appearance on the Professor of Rock podcast. “Don’t let other people, you know, decide your life. You decide your own life.”
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Surprise success
“I think everyone was surprised,” the band frontman said. “It didn’t conform to the obvious tropes, but everyone who heard it seemed to love it, so we knew we were onto something. I still couldn’t tell you what. … In some way, [“Driver’s Seat”] established an unrealistic precedent. It was a bit of a one-off.”
In an interview with Athens Calling, Roberts reflected on the legacy of his classic song. “I think it has an energy and it’s unusual in its structure, the lyric is positive,” he said. “People seem to love it."
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