This thought came to me randomly but I'd be curious to hear others' opinions should you care to play along. The criteria can be your very own - could be bands or singers or guitar players or songwriters
or producers or however you want to look at it.
Would it be, say, Minnesota, from whence sprang Bob Dylan and Prince (not to mention Replacements and Husker Du, I believe); New Jersey, which produced Bruce and Sinatra; the California of Tom Waits and Brian Wilson; Texas for Willie, Buddy, Waylon and Janis; New York for the Gershwins, Ramones, Joan Baez and/or Beverly
Sills?
(And for those of you who want to get tricky (Paul Romano - THIS. MEANS. YOU.), I'm willing to allow some latitude - for example, Patti Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois, but left at an early age and made her name in New York. So perhaps, should she be one of your touchstones, you want to count her as New York. I'll leave that up to you...)
Cheers,
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ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, though nobody may ever SEE this, I am choosing Texas for the above mentioned Waylon, Willie, Janis and Buddy PLUS Rodney Crowell, Old 97s, Townes Van Zant, Guy Clark (on the strength of Dublin Blues alone), Steve Earle (though born in Virginny - his dad was in the service - he was soon back in Texas to grow up), Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Delbert McClinton and, of course, Kris K was BORN there, though the opposite of Earle - from a military family, he spent little of his early life in Texas and moved around a lot, eventually settling in San Mateo, CA.
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