Songs about locations

[seeker]

California Dreamin': Mamas and Papas
London Calling: The Clash
All My Exes Live in Texas: Linda Schafer and Sanger Schafer
Galveston: Glen Campbell
By The Time I Get To Phoenix: Jimmy Webb
O Little Town of Bethlehem
New York State of Mind: Billy Joel
Allentown: Billy Joel
No Sleep Til Brooklyn: Beastie Boys
Detroit Girls: Starz
Indiana Wants Me: R. Dean Taylor

[Bucc5207]

Mendocino - Sir Douglas Quintet

[wborisenok]

Chris Trapper - "Boston Girl"

[Tahitijack]

We play instrumental surf music. Our setlist includes

Hawaii 5-0
The Wedge
Diamond Head
Point Panic
Baja
Slaughter On 10th Avenue
Voyage Round The Moon
The Cruel Sea

[architype]

Route 66:

Well it goes through St Louis, Joplin, Missouri, Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty...You'll see Amarillo, and Gallup New Mexico, Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow,and San Bernadino.

Willin' by Little Feat

"Well I've been from Tucson to Tucumcarri, Tehatchapi, to Tonapah.
I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made...
I've Driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed."

[lroyb]

Streets Of Baltimore http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2w3XvgNog

Cleveland Rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1uEIdjRQU

[posternutbag]

Dixie Chicken Little Feat (not in the title, but the song is about Memphis)
Walking in Memphis Marc Cohn
Sweet Louisiana Sound Billy Pilgrim
La Cienega Just Smiled Ryan Adams
Carolina in my Mind James Taylor
Mexico James Taylor
Stars on the Water Various
Prince of Tides Jimmy Buffett (Dufuski Island and Hilton Head Island)
Everybody's Got a Cousin in Miami Jimmy Buffett
Dirty Blvd. Lou Reed
Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen

I could seriously do this all day.

[Crossroads]

Please come to Boston
That's how I got to Memphis
Bobcaygeon

[lroyb]

Galveston Tx http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2tgVAML2gE


Gotta love that Ovation electric

[perttime]

ZZ Top:
Jesus just left Chicago (... and he's bound for New Orleans)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nMFg7ws394 (Video starts with "Waitin' for the bus")

My head's in Mississippi: (I'm shuffling through the Texas sand But my head's in Mississippi.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BwKGFb0PgI

[Silly Moustache]

I'm in the UK, and we think that songs about our towns ,cities etc., sound incredibly silly, but we will happily sing songs about or including American place names with which we have no connection with no embarrassment at all.

I share this "complex" as I sing many West Texas singer-songwriters material, and bluegrass.

Eight more miles to Lousisville ? - fine

Eight more miles to Piddletrenthide (a real place) - ridiculous.

I'm Goin' to Jackson - fine (if cliched)

I'm Goin' to Bognor - no way !

Moonlight in Vermont - delightful

Moonlight in Sheffield - nah!

Why is this I wonder ? especially as many American places are named after British towns, cities and counties anyway.

BTW - the Del McCoury version of Richard Thompson's Vincent Black Lightening has the line ......
"And he pulled her on behind - And down to Knoxville, they did ride"

Wrong - it is "And he pulled her on behind - And down to BOX HILL, they did ride"

Box Hill is a famous peak of the North Downs in Surrey - south west of London. It is a tourist beauty spot, but has long been the late night haunt of young motorcyclists.

There is "On Ilkely Moor ba' 'tat" (On Ilkely Moor without a hat) - an old folk song see : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtrdqTKBNA

NOTE - THIS IS NOT ME!

[Bucc5207]

K K K K K K Katmandu - Bob Seger

- or, for Silly Moustache -

C C C C C C Camelford

[clintj]

Just thought of a few more.

Led Zeppelin, Kashmir and Bron-yr-aur
Arlo Guthrie, City of New Orleans (technically a rail line, but the geography is strong throughout)

[MikeBmusic]

Dirty Water (Boston)
Boston & St John (written by Chris Trapper I think, done by Great Big Sea)
Rocky Mountain Way
Old Cape Cod
Back in the USSR

[buddyhu]

The first one that came to mind: "Wichita" by Tim and Mollie O'Brien.

http://youtu.be/H_z4dUPK0_Q