[Music] A Bit Of Americana For Your Indulgence

[el punal]

A little exercise here for you to have a go at. Come up with any songs that have the name of a U.S. state in the title or in the lyrics. The proviso being that you name the song and the artist(s) who performed it, and the line naming the state. A couple of examples to go on with :

California Dreaming - The Mamas and Papas

Get Back - The Beatles (JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona)

You get the drift, over to you.

 

[Marlton and Hove Albion]

Georgia - Ray Charles
Massachusetts - Bee Gees
New York - Frank Sinatra

 

[AmexRuislip]

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nebraska - Bruce Springstein

 

[Flounce]

I first heard this song when young and thinking of America as a dream place to go to. A few mentions of places but I remember that I thought the New Jersey Turnpike sounded romantic. Imagine my disappointment when decades later I went through it

 

[Marlton and Hove Albion]

I first heard this song when young and thinking of America as a dream place to go to. A few mentions of places but I remember that I thought the New Jersey Turnpike sounded romantic. Imagine my disappointment when decades later I went through it

A depressingly straight, expensive and boring road. Garden State Parkway less straight, less expensive and slightly less boring the further south you go.

 

[Pevenseagull]

'Say Yes! To Michigan ' and 'Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois ' - Sufjan Stevens.

 

[Whoislloydy]

Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton
Hotel California - The Eagles
New York Sate of Mind - Billy Joel

 

[Is it PotG?]

Indiana Wants Me, fantastic song.

Ohio is for Lovers, even better.

 

[Flounce]

Amarillo
Route 66
San Francisco (wear some flowers in your hair)
Let’s Go To San Francisco
I left my heart in San Francisco

 

[KZNSeagull]

Indiana - The Chameleons
Private Idaho - B52s

 

[Is it PotG?]

The beautiful Anchorage by Michelle Shocked

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The beautiful Anchorage by Michelle Shocked

?

 

[el punal]

Amarillo
Route 66
San Francisco (wear some flowers in your hair)
Let’s Go To San Francisco
I left my heart in San Francisco

I know Route 66 has quite of few states named in the lyrics but do your other choices have?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I thought this already was North Sacramento Chat the amount of times we see 'License' used on here, not to mention 'Defense' last week. Next you'll be calling films 'movies' for fark's ache.

As you were.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

 

[WATFORD zero]

The first band that came to mind - The Band

Mississippi, Louisiana, California - Up on Cripple Creek
Tennessee - The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down
Philadelphia - Atlantic city

 

[Morvangull]

'Memphis Tennessee' Chuck Berry
'Whichita Linesman' Glen Campbell

 

[boik]

Seem to have a lot of cities here when the OP asked for states.

 

[Weststander]

Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glen Miller & his Orchestra (Tennessee is in the lyrics).

 

[Is it PotG?]

Seem to have a lot of cities here when the OP asked for states.

Since when has a thread title been adhered to? Usually it starts asking for one song or whatever before a list is provided before post # 5!