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Locations in Lyrics
51 location references across 24 songs
Songs & Places
Gulf Coast Blues
Gulf Coast
"These Gulf Coast Blues away"
Imagine Houston
Houston, TX
Gallo del Cielo
Rio Grande, TX
San Antonio, TX
San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Clara, CA
San Francisco, CA
Columbus, NM
El Paso, TX
"Then he crossed the Rio Grande with that roosted nestled deep within his arm"
West Texas Waltz
West Texas
Detroit, MI
"West Texas Waltz"
Dallas
Dallas, TX
"Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night?"
Tennessee’s Not the State I’m In
Tennessee
Mississippi River, TN
Nashville, TN
Memphis, TN
"Tennessee is not the state I'm in"
Tennessee's Not the State I'm In
Tennessee
Nashville Is A Catfish
Nashville, TN
Letter to L.A.
Los Angeles, CA
"Letter to L.A."
Dallas (Live At Antone's; Austin; TX / January 22 & 23; 1999)
Dallas, TX
Gallo Del Cielo (Live At Antone's; Austin; TX / January 22 & 23; 1999)
Austin, TX
Letter to Laredo
Laredo, TX
Because of the Wind
Amarillo, TX
"Have you seen my Caroline / Up in Amarillo"
Hard Luck Saint
Floydada, TX
New York City, NY
Texas
Texas Panhandle, TX
Texas High Plains, TX
Highway 84, TX
Muleshoe, TX
"Roughneck in the Floydada black oil fields"
Down on the Drag
Houston, TX
River Fever
La Grange, TX
Nacho Mama
Pedernales River, TX
Wind’s Gonna Blow You Away
Red River, TX
For Your Love
Rio Grande, TX
95 South
Portland, ME
Boston, MA
New Jersey Turnpike, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Newark, NJ
Elizabeth, NJ
Carolina Pines
North Carolina
South Carolina
"95 South from Portland Maine"
She Never Spoke Spanish To Me
Mexico
Monterey
Texas
"I met her in old Mexico"
Me and Billy the Kid
New Mexico
"He rode the hard country down the New Mexico line"
All Just to Get to You
the plains
St. Paul, MN
Wichita Falls, TX
Baton Rouge, LA
California Shore, CA
Hopi territory
desert sands
Rio Grande, TX
"I have stumbled on the plains"
Fingernails (Live in London)
Texarkana, TX
Louisiana
Alabama
"Till the swallows get back from Texarkana"
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Region: West Texas / Permian Basin
Conference: Texas
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