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Brought out an album and hit the road (4,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

made tracks

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'brought out an album and hit the' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'road' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'road' could be 'track' (track is a kind of road) and 'track' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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