I've used Greg Brown's song "Brand New '64 Dodge" (from his 1994 album "The Poet Game") in classes for years now, both in poetry seminars (where it offers great material for interpretation) and in creative-writing courses (where it exemplifies the power of image-based writing to create scenes and characters that can then lift off in one surprising direction after another). This morning in a creative-writing class, I noticed for the first time how the end of the third verse beautifully introduces the instrumental break: "There's a lot for a boy to think about / As he walks along the railroad tracks." While the boy thinks, Bo Ramsey takes a guitar solo. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 15 September 2025)