No idea why this crossed my mind when on the cusp of sleep last night, but it did… How many US states appear in the names of musical artistes/ensembles? I haven’t bothered Googling a list of US states yet, but I can recall (before falling asleep) thinking Mississippi John Hurt, Utah Phillips, Randy California, Tennessee Ernie Ford…
Any more?
Texas
Kansas
Hannah Montana(?)
Utah Saints.
Then I’m stuck.
Alabama Shakes
New York Dolls
I think this counts:
Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo)
Virginia Astley
Georgia Satellites
Ohio Players
Alabama 3
Grover Washington
North and South Dakota Fanning. (Counts as 2 points.)
‘The Dakotas’ is more succinct.
No Dakota
Flo Rida
and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Randy California
Normil Hawaiians
Stan Ridgway
Er…?
New Mexico Radio?
Yeah, let’s go with that.
I thought New Mexico was likely to be one state without a band…
The Kentucky Headhunters
Michigan & Smiley
Mississippi John Hurt
The Kentucky Colonels
Alaska
(Something of an obscurity, so to silence any doubters: https://www.discogs.com/Alaska-Alaska/release/923656)
Not to be confused with the almost as obscure one with the same name formed by Bernie Marsden
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band
Very good!
It’s a shame there’s not a band called the Foregone Conclusions, or something like that.
Did Minnesota Fats make any records…?
Kansas
Louisiana Red
Ohio Players
Georgia Satellites
I have a feeling all those North East states are going to be tricky.
“Alabama’s grand – the state, not the band!”
Check the line at about 40 seconds in:-
The reMain(e)s …. well, it was worth a try.
I’d a hope that there was some obscure blues singer called Ida Hope (or something similar) so that I could bag “Idaho”, but as it turned out, I’d no hope.
Hey… there is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Western Michigan University called Mary Land. Does she count?
(P.S. That’s it. I’m stopping now.)
Ohio Express
Not an act, but a few mentioned here:
Atlanta Bliss, Prince alumnus.
Don’t know why that’s gone as a reply to Mr Digit.
Black Oak Arkansas
Apparently there is a group called The Maine.
Boston
(Original authors of Smells Like A Feeling or More Than Teen Spirit, or whatever it was called)
(except Boston isn’t a state)
North Mississippi Allstars
Carolina Chocolate drops
If there isn’t someone called Stan Francisco there bloody well should be. …
Read the title of the thread properly Dave……
There’s
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
And
The Texas Tornados
Mississipi Fred McDowell
Mississipi Sheiks
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
The Kentucky Colonels
Dinah Washington
Illinois Jacquet
Good one – I was wondering if we’d get an Illinois.
How about America. That’s got all of them covered.
Then there’s nasally challenged grunge hitmakers Nevada.
And who could forget the California Raisins…..
and those stunning hitmeisters The Alaskan ex-pat Glaswegian Heidbutters.
Anyway apropos of nothing that Sufjan Stevens is a lazy twat. He was going to make an album for every USA state. To date he has only done a couple.
What you playing at with those soppy songs of family,?Get on with your day job young man,
Louchie Lou and Michigan (sorry)
David Essex
Anne Peebles
The Cardigans
Lindsey Buckinghamshire
Sorry, geography never my strong point (he lied)
Susan Hampshire
Lincoln Park
Jim Moray
Dearly departed Keith Flint
Big COuntry
There’s a Chinese rapper called Wyo Ming.
Actually, that’s a lie.
Indeed it is a lie, she plays bass:
Bloody hell!!
What a website this is!