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Eureka Nevada, used to be the loneliest town on the loneliest highway in America, Hwy 50, Nevada. From "Half An Hour Away" released in 2001.

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Written and recorded 20 years ago this year (2020)... it was going to be the new 21st century then. Gary (flute), Lisa (mandolin) and I were allowed to use a local Half Moon Bay theater to record in for a day. My album "Half An Hour Away" is what we did that day with this song on it. I wrote this sing while driving from Bay Area to Boulder over Hwy 50 out thru the desolate high desert in Nevada then into Colorado. Have done that drive quite a number of times... it's the middle of nowhere in so many nice ways. I got to Boulder (20 hrs?) and took out my guitar and found the music to the tune I'd been humming while writing those words while driving. Eureka Nevada out there used to have a huge billboard sign that said "Welcome To Eureka, The Loneliest City on The Loneliest Highway in America". I loved that. After my CD was released I dropped a copy of it off in the public library and they were kind of enough to accept and archive it. In later years the town got a new mayor who wanted to change the vibe/face of Eureka and so they changed the billboard to say "Welcome to Eureka, The Friendliest City on the Loneliest Highway in America". Things were just not the same after that in Eureka at least for me.

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My life has been a 2-lane road to nowhere
And now I wonder if I am the only traveler there
And did I drive it drunk or was I sober
An empty road leaves little room
For anyone to care

And when I came between those empty boundaries
Were there fence posts or some arrows
Telling me ways to go
Or did I hide inside a dream from those who found me
What’s the difference and then how the hell would I know

Come see me in Eureka
In Nevada on a Sunday
Eight hours from Blind Valley
On the loneliest highway
We’ll both sit down and never find
A single thing to say
That’s how it is in lonely towns
On lonely old highways

I finally found where friends of mine been hiding
Way out on lone highways
In their vehicles of sin
A single wave says howdy and goodbye then
As we pass each other
Without looking back again

Come see me in Eureka
In Nevada on a Sunday
Eight hours from Blind Valley
On the loneliest highway
We’ll both sit down and never find
A single thing to say
That’s how it is in lonely towns
On lonely old highways

credits

from Nighttime Music, track released January 1, 2001
Words & Music by David Elias
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by David Elias, 2001
Mastered by Gus Skinas, 2001

David Elias: acoustic guitar, vocal
Gary McArthur: flute
Lisa Kelly: mandolin

Cover photo of Tomales Bay, Marin, California by David Elias

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