There are things I know only because of songs, poems, or other works that reference them. Reading Gregory Stapp's poem "There are no sidewalks in Tucumcari, New Mexico" in the "Eunoia Review", I thought of Lowell George's song "Willin'", from Little Feat's 1971 album "Little Feat": "And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari / Tehachapi to Tonopah." I knew of Tucson, Arizona, before I ever heard the song, but I still know nothing about the other three cities. Stapp also mentions Route 66, which many of my friends in Basel only know about because of Bobby Troup's 1946 song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (originally recorded by Nat King Cole). (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 8 March 2025)
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| Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico, photo by Lars Plougmann, Creative Commons License |
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