Highway Tune

"Highway Tune" was the first song Greta Van Fleet wrote and recorded together. The song's initial guitar riff was cited by guitarist Jake Kiszka as being written as early as 2010—seven years before the song's release as a single, and two years before the band was formed.^[3] The riff was brought to early writing and recording sessions when the band formed in 2012, and was later reformatted and demoed twice before being recorded in its final form.^[3][4] The song was initially used in an episode of the television show Shameless in January 2016.^[5] It was officially released as one of four songs on the band's debut EP, Black Smoke Rising.^[6] The song was released on March 31, 2017, as a single,^[7][8] and on the EP on April 21, 2017.^[9] The music video was released two days before the EP's release, and features the band playing in an abandoned warehouse.^[4][10]

The song has received many comparisons to the work of Led Zeppelin,^[9][11][12] including comparison to the vocals of Robert Plant.^[4][9]

The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Active Rock stations in September 2017.^[13] The Mainstream Rock chart was topped in just 14 weeks.^[14] Billboard magazine noted that, outside of solo musicians breaking away from their original band, Greta Van Fleet with "Highway Tune" was the fastest for a band to top the Mainstream Rock charts with their debut single since Tantric's 2001 single "Breakdown" and 3 Doors Down's 2000 single "Kryptonite".^[14] Loudwire named it the second best hard rock song of 2017.^[1] HelloMusicTheory ranked the song as the 8th best rock song of the 2010s.^[15]

• Joshua Kiszka – vocals
• Jacob Kiszka – guitar
• Samuel Kiszka – bass guitar
• Daniel Wagner – drums, tambourine, shaker