Roads Ahead

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"Roads Ahead"
Big Sugar Roads Ahead.jpg
Single by Big Sugar
from the album Revolution Per Minute
ReleasedJune 13, 2011
Genre Rock
Length2:21
Label Bread & Water Records/Fontana North
Songwriter(s) Richard Munro Hope, Gordie Johnson, Paul John Kehayas, Adrian William Mack, Christopher Jay Read
Producer(s) Gordie Johnson
Big Sugar singles chronology
"I Want You Now"
(2003)
"Roads Ahead"
(2011)
"Little Bit A All Right"
(2011)
Music video
Roads Ahead on YouTube

"Roads Ahead" is the first single from Canadian rock band Big Sugar's 2011 album, Revolution Per Minute . The song is Big Sugar's first single since reuniting in 2010 and their first single released since 2003.

Music video

The music video for "Roads Ahead" was filmed in the band's dressing room before a show at a festival in Lloydminster. The video was directed, edited and produced by Gordie Johnson. [1]

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References

  1. "Big Sugar - Roads Ahead". bigsugar.com. Retrieved 2011-12-07.