- The dustiness of the verse.
- The high, lonesome chorus.
- Larry McMurtry wrote the bridge.
- Bobby recorded the vocal atop a horse. (Not a real horse: Bobby slapped a saddle on Precarious.)
- Heyday of Only A River brought to a close by the invention of barbed wire, and the Range Wars.
- Hasn’t been in the Super Bowl since 1995.
- I said so.
- The song is on what Bobby has been referring to as his “Cowboy Album” for a decade now; ipso facto: cowboy song.
- Hat.
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Nice tune. A confused geography only a Grateful Dead or a Deadhead could come up with. I hope the album has a companion trucker song about Route 77.