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West Memphis Arkansas - Al Bruno

A**hole From El Paso--Kinky Friedman

Kentucky Hills of Tennessee--Commander Cody

New Oleans - Toby Keith > < Calling Baton Rouge -Garth Brooks < > Sunnie side of Houston - Leo J.Eiffert,Jr.

The Girl in Saskatoon - Johnny Cash 196?

Anchorage...Michelle Shocked.

Arkansas Traveller

Beaumont Rag

Home In San Antone--Bob Wills

Tulsa Straight Ahead--Asleep at the Wheel

Way Down Texas Way-- " "

Boogie Back to Texas-- " "

Miles and Miles of Texas--Bob Wills, A.a.t.W.

Dallas by Vern Stovall
Amarillo by Ray Sanders
San Diego by Charlie Walker
South Of Round Rock, Texas by Dale Watson

"Streets of Bakersfield"

Hey Stu... I played on "Anchorage".

"New York, New York!"

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oops, I didn't notice that Johan asked for country songs...sorry!

Chicago: "My Kind of Town" -Frank Sinatra

"San Ber'dino" -Frank Zappa

edit:
oops, I didn't notice that Johan asked for country songs...sorry!

Chicago Breeze - Forrest Tucker of F Troop.> Leo J.Eiffert,Jr.

Here's some more: Song/Author (not necessarily the performer)
NOTE: Some of these may have been mentioned previously (there's no accounting for my senility)

Uncertain, Texas - Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell
Montgomery in the Rain - Steve Young
El Paso - Marty Robbins
San Angelo - Marty Robbins
What Made Milwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis
Columbus Stockade Blues - Doc Watson
Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
Leland Mississippi Blues - Johnny Winter
Sunday In New York - Peter Nero
Autumn In New York - Vernon Duka
April In Paris - Vernon Duka
Midnight In Milpitas - Tom Hobson, Jorma Kaukonen
Cincinnati Flow Rag - Reverend Gary Davis aka Blind Gary Davis
Red Stick (this is english for Baton Rouge) - don't know who wrote this, but Jeff Newman used to perform this song.

Here are some where the term word "city" is in question:

Last Night In Manhattan - Corey Christiansen
Scrapple From The Apple - Charlie Parker
The Philadelphians - Randy Johnson
Heartbreak, Tennessee Johnny Paycheck

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Oklahoma City Town by Curtis Wayne

Birmingham Turnaround : Keith Whitley ~ great country song by a great (sadly departed) country singer.

"Bossier City", performed by David Allan Coe, written by B. J. Bourgoin

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

How 'bout some cities beyond the US border:

Girl From Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes

Midnight In Moscow (performed by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen)

Acapulco 1922 (performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)

Tijuana Bible (written and performed by Tom Russell)

Fifty-Five Days At Peking - Dimitri Tiomkin/Paul Francis Webster

One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head

and last, but not least:
Bombs Over Baghdad (performed by Outkast)



Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Johan, if you really get lost. "I Belong To Glasgow" and "London Bridge Is Falling Down" or little Jimmy Osmond's "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool"

Let's not forget:

GEORGIA on My Mind

and

Rainy Night in GEORGIA

Cities?

Arch.

...Waycross, Georgia on My Mind
Rainy Night in Valdosta, Georgia

Johan Jansen wrote:... We like to play (country)songs that are somewhere connected to cities or regions or states. example: San Antonio Rose, Georgia, Memphis Tennessee, Sweet Home Alabama
Please, help me out with some songs.
Thanks a lot!!
Johan

Archie Nichol wrote: Cities?

Arch, you should pay more attention, Sir!
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'umble apologies, Jim. I read only the thread title.

Arch.

Think this kinda sums it up.
http://ericssonglists.blogspot.com/2006 ... ities.html

Um, yeah. Case closed, winner declared, game over.

That's quite a list!

...but wait a minute..."Amarillo Brillo"? That just ain't right!