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This list of songs addressing travel and various places within America was the toughest, and I’m still not fully happy with it. The glut of good songs about California, New York and the South, are offset by spotty coverage of different regions, such as my own Pacific Northwest (represented here only by a defunct Portland band no one’s ever heard of, Boy Crazy). Also, I was stumped on Texas, so I included a couple of old standards that I’m not fond of. I plead ignorance. I do like the Denny Brooks song “San Antone” from the movie “Rolling Thunder,” but heck if I know where to find it. (Selected sources)

1 – America – Simon and Garfunkel
2 – Moonlight in Vermont – Sam Cooke
3 – Theres a Boat That’s Leavin Soon for New York – George Gershwin
4 – New York, New York – Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly
5 – I’ll Take New York – Tom Waits
6 – New York State of Mind – Billy Joel
7 – Theme From New York, New York – Frank Sinatra
8 – King Of The Road – Roger Miller
9 – Graceland – Paul Simon
10 – Take Me Home, Country Roads – Ray Charles
11 – Oh My Sweet Carolina – Ryan Adams
12 – I Got a Name – Jim Croce
13 – Miami – U2
14 – Georgia on My Mind – Hoagy Carmichael
15 – Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
16 – Southern Accents – Johnny Cash
17 – I Wish I Was in New Orleans – Tom Waits
18 – Black Water – The Doobie Brothers
19 – Jesusland – Ben Folds
20 – Train Song – Tom Waits
21 – Gary, Indiana – Meredith Wilson
22 – My Kind of Town – Frank Sinatra
23 – Chicago [Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version] – Sufjan Stevens
24 – Flint For The Unemployed And Underpaid – Sufjan Stevens
25 – Say Yes To Michgan – Sufjan Stevens
26 – Home I’ll Never Be – Tom Waits
27 – Oklahoma – Rodgers and Hammerstein
28 – Love You as Big as Texas – Tex Ritter
29 – Yellow Rose Of Texas – The Union Confederacy
30 – Rocky Mountain High – John Denver
31 – Route 66 – Rolling Stones
32 – Take It Easy – The Eagles
33 – Going to California – Led Zeppelin
34 – Me and Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson
35 – Ventura Highway – America
36 – Do You Know The Way To San Jose – Dionne Warwick
37 – California Dreamin’ – The Mamas & The Papas
38 – L.A. Woman – The Doors
39 – California – The Rentals
40 – California – Phantom Planet
41 – Stark Street – Boy Crazy
42 – I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash

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