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With our band Cash On Delivery www.cashondelivery.org we are planning a theatre-tour that has as a concept that there is a journey from Texas to Tennessee. 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

Hmmmmm... Looks like the tour will go too far south to use "The Streets of Baltimore".

L.A. Freeway - Guy Clark
If You're Going to San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone - Charlie Pride
Oakie From Muskogee - Merle Hagggard
California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas
Sam's Place - Buck Owens
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Saginaw Michigan - Lefty Frizzell
Detroit City -- Bobby Bare
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Bakersfield Bound - Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
Colorado - Flying Burrito Brothers
Arizona - Mark Lindsay
Louisiana Saturday Night - Mel McDaniel

There are tons more, but I just got up...

I also just realized...because I just got up...that you might just need city/state names to coincide with your tour...oops.

PS This is Austin Blake Shelton or Brad Paisley
Houston Gatlin Brothers
Dallas Alan Jackson
Amarillo By Mornin' George Strait
Texas Tattoo Gibson-Miller Band
Luchenbach Texas Waylon & Willie
Paint Me a Birmingham Tracy Lawrence
Smoky Mountain Rain Ronnie Milsap
Tennessee Plates Mark Collie
El Paso Marty Robbins
Calling Baton Rouge Garth Brooks

keep'm comin', you guys are great!!
JJ

Route 66

Way down in COLUMBUS GEORGIA,friends have turned their backs on me...BIRMINGHAM JAIL, WAY DOWN IN WAYCROSS GEORGIA,[MILLERS CAVE]DYKBC.

Seattle - Connie Smith
Galveston - Glen Campbell
Boston Jail - Carl Belew
Destination Atlanta, GA - Cal Smith
Bossier City Backyard Blues - Johnny Rodriguez
What's Made Milwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis
Between Winston Salem and Nashville, Tennessee - Billy Walker
Wichita - Tex Ritter


Not to forget...I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow, Lynn Anderson


Kind Regards, Walter

Abilene (Sonny James)
The lights of Albuquerque (Jim Glaser)
Santa Fe (Bellamy Bros.)
Miami (k. Whitley)
Kansas City lights (S. Wariner)
Houston ..(no, Jeff.. the other Houston by Dean Martin)

How obscure do you wanna go Johan? (more?)

Flight 409 to Tennessee (Shelly West)
L.A. International Airport (Susan Raye)
Kirksville, Missouri (Donna FARGO)

How about Dale Watson's "Nashville Rash", or Ryan Adams' "Tennessee Sucks"...

And as long as we're going relatively obscure,The Sir Douglas Quintet (Doug Sahm) had a bunch of 'em:

Seguin
Texas Me
Oh Lord, Don't let it Rain in Texas
Dallas Alice
Westside Blues Again
(all Texas)

Nuevo Laredo
Mendocino
Monterey Sun
Tortilla Flats

Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
Tennessee Waltz
Knoxville Girl
Road To Columbus
I'm Going Back To Jackson

All My Exs Live In Texas; George Straight.
Missouri Waltz; Everyone
El Paso; Marty Robbins
Sioux City Sue; ??????
That Good Ole Idaho Spud, Stompin Tom Conners
Kansas City Here I Come; ?????????
Ain't Gonna Park My Horse In New York City; Boxcar Willy
My Illusive Dreams, Tammy W., ???????

We're going to Jackson
Nashville Cats
My old kentucky home
Waltz across Texas

Midnight in Montgomery, Alan Jackson
Texas Tornado, Tracy Lawrence
Blame it on Texas, Mark Chesnutt
Oklahoma Swing, Vince Gill
Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa, George Strait
Livin' on Tulsa Time, Don Williams
Take Me Back to Tulsa, Asleep at the Wheel

Maybe the list would be shorter jf only songs w/o a city name would be menstioned!

Kind Regards, Walter

I've Been Everywhere!!!!! Hank Snow or Lynn Anderson or who else?

"Midnight in Montgomery" Alan Jackson-the song also talks about Mobile, Alabama when Alan says "I was on my way to Mobile for a big New Year's Eve show.

Brett

Lodi,Creedence
Nightingal Sang in Berekely Square

It seems like I can think of another song about every 10 seconds. I don't know how long that can continue, but I think it would be well over 100 before I started slowing down, though I'm not actually going to put that theory to the test.
Here's a few I don't think I've seen mentioned yet:
By the time I get to Phoenix;
Country Roads;
This land is your land;
Take it easy.
-- Marc

Haven't seen these yet. Some are well known, and some are - well let's just say not exactly household names.

- Amarillo, Ooh Las Vegas, Sin City - Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, FBB, etc.
- Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins - now I think it's been done as a "country" song by someone
- Philadelphia Lawyer - Maddox Brothers and Rose, and others
- San Antonio Girl, West Nashville Boogie - Steve Earle
- South of Cincinatti, Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakum
- Moffett, Oklahoma - Charlie Walker
- Amarillo, Texas - Freddy Weller
- Milwaukee Here I Come - Porter Wagoner
- Almost to Tulsa - Buddy Charleton (instrumental)
- Kansas City Blues - Ernest Tubb
- Cincinatti, Ohio - Bill Anderson, Connie Smith
- The Galveston Rose - Hank Snow
- Chattanooga Choo Choo - what western swing band hasn't done it?
- Tupelo Mississippi Flash - Jerry Reed
- The Philadelphia Fillies - Del Reeves
- Night Train to Memphis - Roy Acuff, Webb Pierce
- Streets of Laredo - Marty Robbins and others
- The Kansas City Song - Buck Owens
- 21 Miles to Lake Charles Prison - Johnny Paycheck
- Tupelo County Jail - Webb Pierce
- Downtown Modesto - Merle Haggard
- LA County - Lyle Lovett
- Nashville Wimmin - Waylon
- The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
- City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie (ok, it's a train)
- Tulsa Queen - Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell (ok, it's a boat)
- Nashville is a Groovy Little Town - Tom T. Hall
- Long Gone John from Bowling Green - Hank Thompson, Hot Rize
- Helena Montana - Terry Allen
- Eddy Arnold - Texarkana Baby

Not exactly cities - but Tennessee by Jimmie Martin, Louisiana Man by Doug Kershaw, Kentucky Waltz by Bill Monroe, lots of others like that.

the boy from new yawk city
salt pork west virginia

I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Kansas City." or "I left my heart in San Francisco."

MOnterey,Eric Burton
Woodstock (!) Crosby Stills and Nash
San Francuso Nights,Eric Burton
L.A. Woman,Doors
Do You Know thw Way to San Jose?

Wichita Lineman, Glen Campbell (nice tune for pedal steel)

St Louis Blues
40 miles from Poplar Bluff
Little Rock Getaway