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If you're going from Lynn Lake to Thompson, you're going to be driving Tom Cochrane's Life is a Highway all night long.

The Lynn Lake-born musician was honoured Monday at the legislature with the announcement a 322-kilometre section of PR 391 is going to be named after the famous rocker.

WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Musician Tom Cochrane with Premier Pallister at a ceremony Monday on the Grand Staircase in the Legislative Building where it was announced a provincial road will be named after him.

Cochrane performed two of his hit songs, Big League and his 1991 smash single, Life is Highway, to onlookers crowded around the grand staircase of the legislature.

"If you can be humbled and flattered at the same time, I guess I am a mixture of both," said Cochrane after the highway signs were unveiled. "I am really proud to have a lot people who feel I have done Manitoba proud."

Although Cochrane left Lynn Lake when he was four years old, he said the spirit of Manitoba has never left him.

"I don't think that ever leaves your soul, it is a community that has to pull together in those kinds of environments that can be so beautiful," Cochrane said. "I was always brought up to feel like this is my home, even though I left here at a young age. I have always come back."

Premier Brian Pallister and Infrastructure Minister Blaine Pedersen, along with Lynn Lake Mayor James Lindsay welcomed the singer.

Cochrane embarks on a national tour in 2017 in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his chart-topping album, Mad Mad World, which rose to number one in Canada and number six on Billboard's Hot 100 charts. The tour includes a stop in Lynn Lake on Aug. 20.

kristin.annable@freepress.mb.ca