“Thunderstorms and Neon Signs” December 11, 2009

Here is Wayne “The Train” Hancock‘s finest hour, and the song in 1995 that pretty much kick-started his career.

Here’s Hancock talking about one of his experiences on Route 66 in No Depression magazine in 2001:

“I’ve broken down on my way to shows and gotten there early. I was going through Vega, Texas, and my generator goes down and I pulled in the first place I see which is the Vega Motel on Route 66 and at 4:00 in the morning there’s a guy behind the desk. There’s never a guy at 4:00 in the morning so I figure he’s an insomniac.

“We get up the next day and it turns out there’s an auto parts store on either side of that motel and a garage in both of them. We got there two hours early. The next time I go through town I say, ‘Hey, let’s go through Vega. They got a cool motel there.’ The place is deserted and looks like it’s been closed for thirty years. The auto parts stores were closed too. I’ve got lots of stories like that.”