[Music] A Bit Of Americana For Your Indulgence

[lawros left foot]

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot.

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin

 

[Flounce]

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

Guilty

I’ll make amends

Nebraska
California Stars
Ohio
It never rains in Southern California

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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

 

[Si Gull]

Pixies - U-Mass.
University Of Massachusetts, please

Parental advisory....C-words

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Frank Zappa……Carolina hardcore ecstasy
Frank Zappa……Illinois enema bandit
Frank Zappa…..No not now,(string beans to Utah)

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

California, Joni Mitchell. .'California, I'm coming home '
California, John Mayall..."Going back to California..."

California Love, NWA

 

[hart's shirt]

Any extra points for the same one mentioned 4 times in a row?

Pet Shop Boys - 'Paninaro'

"Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York"

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

New York Telephone Conversation
by Lou Reed

 

[Triggaaar]

There are way too many

Dani California - ROCP: Getting born in the state of Mississippi - In Alabama she would swing a hammer - Black bandanna, sweet Louisiana - Robbing on a bank in the state of Indiana - California rest in peace - Never made it up to Minnesota - North Dakota man
Dakota - Stereophonics
Blue Hawaii - Elvis
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z - In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Hotel California - Eagles
Country Road - John Denver - West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads
My Name Is Tallulah - Tallulah had her training in North Carolina
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
California Gurls - Katy Perry
California Girls - The Beach Boys
The Tale of the Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy - In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Oklahoma - Rodgers & Hammerstein
Graceland - Paul Simon - I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Massachusetts - Bee Gees

Number 1 the day I was born (and if you’re a proper nerd you’d know my birthday is imminent)

 

[theboybilly]

To add 'Nebraska' properly (from the album of the same name) :

'From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska;
with a sawed-off .410 on my lap'

 

[GT49er]

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

.....as is Carolina.

Others: Ohio (Crosby, Stills and Nash);
Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein);
Carolina Moon (Connie Francis);
My Old Kentucky Home (Loretta Lynn, among many others).

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Any opportunity to include Sparks

 

[Triggaaar]

It doesn't have a state in it

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

 

[Is it PotG?]

It doesn't have a state in it

Where is New Mexico, my geography is shite?

 

[Triggaaar]

Where is New Mexico, my geography is shite?

I'm sorry I'm being mean - New Mexico isn't in the lyrics. Like Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication doesn't have California in it

 

[Is it PotG?]

I'm sorry I'm being mean - New Mexico isn't in the lyrics. Like Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication doesn't have California in it

I doff.my cap and gracefully accept defeat