Readers recommend: songs about itinerants, nomads and migration

Gypsy to Bedouin, mass movements to travelling singers, blues, folk, or rock on the road, suggest songs springing from or inspired by a life of no fixed abode“Man’s real home is not a house, but the road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot,” said the writer, Bruce Chatwin. His acclaimed 1987 travelogue novel, The Songlines, set about to explore the culture and traditions of Indigenous Australians, and proclaimed that language itself began as song. Songlines, also known