The Sound of Lubbock

Deep in the heart of Texas is “the friendliest city in America.” Those not from the South Plains might find it hard to believe that Lubbock has more to offer than cotton, haboobs and tumbleweeds.

However, there must be something worth mentioning about Lubbock because artists such as Clay Walker, Aaron Watson and Josh Abbott Band all have songs featuring the name of the West Texas town.

This playlist is a collection of songs that mention Lubbock. Enjoy!

 

1. Texas in My Rear View Mirror by Mac Davis “I thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas in my rearview mirror, my mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her, and the vision was getting clearer in my dream”
2. Down on the Drag by Joe Ely “Down on the drag, down on the drag, where some lowdown son-of-a-bum even stole my sleepin’ bag, left me standin’ at the news stand readin’ want ads in the rag, my baby’s back up in Lubbock, and I’m down on the drag”
3. Texas Swing by Clay Walker “Dallas, Ft. Worth, Amarillo, on down to San Antone, gonna turn loose in Houston, why’all it’s good to be back home, Lubbock, Texarkana, Corpus, Austin, Abilene, man we love to play that Texas swing”
4. Lubbock Woman by Terry Allen “She’s forty, an lonely, an raw, an raunchy, an has a good heart, yeah, an has a good heart, she’s a Lubbock Woman, you got to love that woman”
5. Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston by George Hamilton IV “In Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston, or in San Antone, there’s a little girl waitin’ for me and she’s all alone, in Beaumont, Lubbock or Austin or in El Paso, she waits for me I know”
6. Hello, I’m Gone by Trisha Yearwood “She broke down in Lubbock, got it stuck in reverse, so she hitched down the highway, her little gun in her purse, got to the station, stared at the phone, found herself thinkin’ about calling for home”
7. If Dirt Were Dollars by Don Henley “I was flyin’ back from Lubbock, I saw Jesus on the plane… or maybe it was Elvis, you know, they kinda look the same, hey, look out, junior, you’re steppin’ on my bed, I said, I don’t see nothin’, he just glared at me and said”
8. The Lubbock Tornado (I Don’t Know) by Terry Allen “Well it come in from the southwest in the middle of the night, hey loomed over Lubbock, what a gawd awmighty sight, yeah it dipped down into the darkness, all crazy and out of control, hey throwed around that panhandle town till it couldn’t throw it around no more”
9. The Bloody Bucket by Grey DeLisle “The bloody bucket’s empty, just a barmaid, me and you, and I know I don’t belong here but there’s nothing left to do, on a lonesome Lubbock evening, so I conjured up a plan, to break my heart just one more time with one more lowdown, dirty man”
10. She’s Like Texas by Josh Abbott Band “Her moods can change like the weather out in Lubbock, but if you show her love, man, she’ll return it”
11. Lonely Lubbock Lights by Aaron Watson “So I’ll drive all night long, till I find where we went wrong, but there’s no love in sight, just those lonely Lubbock lights”
12. Still Love Rock and Roll by Ian Hunter “I never been to Lubbock, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee, I never washed dishes in Macon, Georgia, I wasn’t half as good and I wasn’t half as pretty as you, but I still got the feelings, embedded in my soul”
13. My Texas by Pat Green and Josh Abbott Band “You say you haven’t hiked through Big Bend, had your hair blown back by a Lubbock wind, been somewhere where they call you a friend, then you ain’t met My Texas yet”
14. Busted in Baylor County by Shooter Jennings “Come on boys, let’s hit the road! We left L.A. on Sunday, in Lubbock by Tuesday, that’s where we played our second show, where nobody knew us, so nobody noticed the songs that the band didn’t know”
15. Leavin’ Lubbock by Joel Warren “A broken heart, a highway sign, I feel this pain in my mind, it’s in the pit of my stomach, I’m leaving Lubbock”
16. Lubbock or Leave It by Dixie Chicks Although it is about Lubbock, the song does not actually mention the name of the city.