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Cities mentioned in The Grateful Dead song “Truckin’” and their roles in the history of music
The Grateful Dead song "Truckin'" ("American Beauty", 1970) memorializes their drug arrest in New Orleans on 31 January, 1970: "Busted down on Bourbon Street / Set up, like a bowling pin". That background also informs an earlier line in a list of cities the band visited on tours: "Houston, too close
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