As Canadian snowbirds we just finished our seasonal migration to Southern California. The route that we take is mostly along what was Route 66 (From Chicago to LA). This year we decided one of our stops was going to be Winslow Arizona. So, on Monday I found myself standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona. A very cool little place with only about 8,500 people.
The Standing on the Corner park ( Standin’ on the Corner Park - Wikipedia) was setup in 1999 in recognition of the Eagles song Take it Easy. It’s a great place for some fun photos, good food and of course good music (although some of the residents may have come to hate hearing the same song over and over again all day long.) Like everyone else in the park I took a few photos.
So If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that’s the best
Get your kicks on Route 66 and make a stop in Winslow Arizona
I’m curious what other “lyric” places people have been to?
There are so many I can think of for places I have been. Not intentionally due to the song, but places I have been.
Just a few:
Carefree Highway (Gordon Lightfoot)
“It’s flooding down in Texas” (SRV)
I left my heart, in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Dionne Warwick)
Wolf Creek Pass (CW McCall) - a favorite!
The Silverton (Train) (CW McCall)
Jackson Hole (CW McCall)
Jet City Woman (QueensrĂżche - maybe a stretch for the exercise here)
still many more in mind asI work thru my memory of lyrics.
I grew up just out side of Jasper
John Denver Wrote a song about it. Rocky Mountain Suite
Up in a meadow in Jasper, Alberta
Two men and four ponies on a long, lonesome ride
To see the high country and learn of her people
The ways that they live there, the ways that they die
Foxfire Suite - John Denver
Rocky Mtn High - John Denver
Blue Ridge Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band
Texas Flood - SRV
Last Dance With Mary Jane - Tom Petty
Small Town (among many others) - John Mellencamp - I even rode my bike past his recording studio many times
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow - Pete Seeger
I think it’d be cool to find specific unknown places quoted in songs, especially if you go there specifically because of the song. So, the corner in Winslow, Arizona is awesome. But San Francisco and New York… not so much.
There is an Irish folk song called Carrickfergus, which mentions Kilkenny. I once took a trip to Ireland…Carrickfergus was not practical to visit, but Kilkenny was!
Can you find “Wolf Creek Pass”? there is a hint in the lyrics. I have been there. Road is all new now.
How about “Black Bear Road”. I can’t find it now on Google even though I know where it was years ago.
Where Romeo would have stood under the window/balcony in Verona …I went there with my girl (and other people we new), but I didn’t want to go up and stand on it and neither did she
2 that come to mind off the top of my head are;
Summer in Dublin (posted here recently)
London calling- the clash (I have been to London more times than I can remember).
Last year I bought LPs of David Bowie’s Low and Lou Reed’s Berlin in Berlin. Also visited the Hansa Studios where David Bowie & Co. recorded the “Heroes” and Lust for Life albums and worked on Low and The Idiot.
I’ve been to Paris several times and I’m sure the city has inspired hundreds of songs. I really like this one:
Eddie @Eddie_09 , since you are mentioning Dublin as a “lyric” place I also have been to, it reminds me that Brian @brianlarsen just recently mentioned:
as yet an other song related to Dublin. And, of course, not to forget, Molly Malone, as performed by Richard @Richtrfc (copied by the "Dublin"ers - or maybe it was it the other way around? )!
Very cool! I don’t know this song but the video with two prairie boys was great.
I’ve been on the corner of Portage and Main in all four seasons so if anyone else is thinking of visiting take Richard’s advice and go in the summer.
One of what I assume is only a small handful of songs about how awful the weather can be.
No street corners in this one, it’s more of a very long line just west of Winnipeg. I hear it’s where the Great Plains begin. . . At The Hundredth Meridian
I can’t find it now on Google even though I know where it was years ago.
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