this excludes songs that have the name but are about a person (ie georgia by phoebe bridgers) and songs only about cities not states (basically all the new york songs ik lol)
home (south / alabama, arkansas) - edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros
sweet home alabama - lynrd skynrd
california here we go - the garden
californiacation - rhcp
california dreamin - the mamas & the papas
folsom prison blues (california) - johnny cash
cool colorado - la femme
delaware - drop nineteens
florida kilos - lana del rey
west coast - lana del rey
west coast - coconut records
idaho - gorillaz
illinois (album!) - sufjan stevens
kansas remembers me now - orville peck
coal miner’s daughter (kentucky) - loretta lynn
michigan (album) - sufjan stevens
mississippi - toro y moi
montana - pierce edens
jersey girl - bruce springsteen
new mexico‘s no breeze - iron & wine
ohio! - the black keys
texas reznikoff - mitski
all my ex’s live in texas - george strait
take me home, country roads (appalachia / west virginia) - john denver
wild west virginia - daniel johnston
bonuses, that i don’t have saved but should be mentioned: afroman’s many wild songs about different US states, bruce springsteen & johnny cashs’ other US state songs
If you live anywhere from the rust belt to Nebraska, you will about one thing per minute that speaks to the Midwest/forgotten American town experience on this album. K-Mart parking lots, dirty spring snow piles, family mini-vans with 200,000 miles.
Such an underrated band!
perfect album, lots of harmonica, haunting, and the songs tell stories “everything dies baby that’s a fact/maybe everything that dies someday comes back”
someone snapped this at a recent show. love it because I look old as hell and I’m grateful to have been around with good friends and hobbies this long.
