I had forgotten just how good this was. HERE is an article from 2007 by Laura Barton, about her rock'n'roll pilgrimage to Boston's Route 128 - the site and subject of Jonathan Richman's legendary song Roadrunner.
Roadrunner is one of the most magical songs in existence. It is a song
about what it means to be young, and behind the wheel of an automobile,
with the radio on and the night and the highway stretched out before
you. It is a paean to the modern world, to the urban landscape, to the
Plymouth Roadrunner car, to roadside restaurants, neon lights, suburbia,
the highway, the darkness, pine trees and supermarkets. As Greil Marcus
put it in his book Lipstick Traces: "Roadrunner was the most obvious
song in the world, and the strangest."
