Songs About U.S. Route 66

11 songs reference U.S. Route 66 · 3760 miles · Highways & Routes.

U.S. Route 66 ran about 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica before it was decommissioned in 1985. 'Get your kicks on Route 66' turned the highway into shorthand for the open road itself, and the songs never stopped coming even after the road came off the map.

These are the tracks that name Route 66, and the towns along the old alignment they call out.

The highway as RoadyGoat maps it; pins mark songs placed along it.

The Songs

main street USA (rt. 66)
red dirt rangers · OK
80%
Hard Travelin’
The Seldom Scene · US
“I've been hittin' that 66, way down the road”
78%
Let Them Horses Run
The Kruse Brothers
“Some roadhouse off the 66 where no one knows my name”
78%
Hot ’lanta
38 Special
“I been burned like a stick on Route 66”
78%
Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone
Charley Pride
“Here I am walking down 66”
78%
Carrying Your Love
David Morris
“Route 66 ridin'”
78%
West Coast Junkie
Billy F Gibbons
“Rollin’ my Camino down Route 66”
78%
(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone
Doug Sahm
“Here I am walkin down 66”
25%
Big Butt Billy
Willi Carlisle
“These past decades the highway's been my home Stopped into Ariston off Route 66”
24%
Better Than Anything
Al Jarreau
“Better than Route 66”
22%
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Nat “King” Cole
“Get your kicks on Route 66”
22%

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