lessee....

"Twin Falls Idaho"  - Built to Spill
"Own Private Idaho" - B52s

I never did find much in the way of satisfactory songs
about Alaska, despite living there for 6 summers, but
I always commandeered songs about the midnight sun,
which included "Faithfully" by journey and "midnight
sun", pref. the Ella Fitzgerald version.

And there's a Lyle Lovett version of "West Texas
Highway" by Michael Martin Murphey on Step Inside this
House:  "He was going down to Haskell/With a woman
down in Abilene..."
Come to think of it, Old 97s have a song on Too Far to
Care called West Texas Teardrops - not their best
effort, but on point.  And someone mentioned Michelle
Shocked's "anchored down in anchorage" already, but
she also had that song about "..learning to drive on
those west texas red clay back roads..." (And Gillian
Welch has a song called "Red Clay Halo" about the same
general location, I think.) And Ben Kweller has that
"Commerce, TX" song - though I don't actually know if
that's west texas or not. I particularly like "Texas
is beautiful" by Doleful Lions and "Waltz Across
Texas" by emmylou harris.  and...Er...Jeff Buckley's
Corpus Christi Carol?

"Thumbelina" by the pretenders starts.."Hush little
baby/don't you cry/when we get to Tuscon/You'll see
why.."

On the seattle/portland tip, Shawn Mullins has a song
about each on Soul's Core:  "Twin Rocks, Oregon" and
"September in Seattle." I know there's another seattle
song...it's rolling around in my head somewhere....

NYC?  "Rockin around NYC" by Marshall Crenshaw, of
course, but "I'll take Manhattan?" (Blossome Dearie
vers.) or "NY State of mind?" (Billy Joel) or "NY"
(Doves.)  It seems an embarassment of riches there -
and I'm drunk - so I'll just pack it in tonight.

--kelly









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