After breakfast, getting back to the hotel, the radio was playing, KLAQ, (Grace’s radio station), and the that Eagles’ song came on.
“Desperado – you’ve been out riding fences too long…”
Perfect for a morning in El Paso, whipsy clouds overhead, almost cool, I’m guessing low 80’s air temperature, and breakfast at the truck stop. Again. Still good food.
Sitting at my table, waiting on prospective clients to show up, I fell to into a conversation with a Libra, about a certain section of Texas. Odd coincidence? The banner across the bottom of the book’s cover? Marfa Mystery Lights highway sign – exact same area.
A couple of my buddies in Austin are in a little band. “Like that’s unusual?”
One of the songs they’ve started doing is an old Townes Van Zandt song, and the lyric that’s stuck in my mind?
“White Freightliner, steal away my mind.”
What I’ve heard, besides the lyrical idea of going down to the highway and listen to the big wheels whine? “White Freightliner” is – allegedly – a fortified wine. So when I finally got a shot of a white Freightliner, I just couldn’t pass it up. It’s for that song, that’s all, a couple of buds in Austin, with a little band, in smoky dive bar, singing an old Townes van Zandt song.
