Places Mentioned in Songs

[shamustwin]

One of my all time favorte songs, by Jackie Lomax:

Home Is In My Head

I have drunk Virginia Water
I have dug my own Gravesend
Set my foot ashore in Newport
Travelled far beyond my Land's End
And my home, home, home is in my head

I have dived into a Blackpool
With a Maidstone round my neck
I just drifted into Southsea
With no Hull beneath my decks
And my home, home, home is in my head

Well, I lost a wheel in Barrow
Tried to cross the No-one-Cambridge
When my Liverpool grew shallow
I had to dig more Wells in Tunbridge
And my home, home, home is in my head.

Would probably make more sense to a Brit. Lomax is a Liverpudlian.
Not only does this song have a nice mysterious vibe, the wah wah guitar on the outro is about the best I've heard.
The guitar/wah wah sounds as though it's speaking.
Clapton and Harrison played on his big hit "Sour Milk Sea", but not this beauty

[doctorwho]

"Just got home from Illinois, unlock the front door, o boy..." - Looking Out my Back Door by CCR

"Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a fine sight to see ..." - Take It Easy by The Eagles (written by Jackson Browne)

I'm sure that I'll remember some others ...

[winston]

How about "Georgia"?

Aitch and I worked a bit on that song when I was in Australia and we got a very nice groove going. I just love that song. Ray take a bow man. You were great.

Funny you know, it's quite a simple song but it's probably one of the most difficult songs that I have ever tried to play. Getting it to sound natural and have it flow in a groove is the hardest part. The chord progression is fairly simple. Of course it would help if I was a natural born piano player. I really have to work at it at the best of times. I worked on the bass line last night. Even that is not as simple as one might think. It's all about playing in the pocket.

[ozover50]

We certainly did, Brian, and it was great fun. Don't play down your keyboard skills, mate......... you were in the groove pretty quickly!!

I've got to get my head around some of the chords again because as you might recall we substituted a couple for the sake of simplicity and ease. I've now worked out another configuration for the diminished chords (thanks to 'Stormy Monday') that is much simpler so I'll revisit it.

I've got to hunt around and see if I can find a nice version in C.

[winston]

I've got to hunt around and see if I can find a nice version in C.

Working on it already.


"Sweet Home Alabama" is another great song that fits this category well. Canadian Neil Young gets a mention in that song due to his thinly veiled remarks in his song "Southern Man".

[captsandwich]

"Sweet Home Alabama" is another great song that fits this category well. Canadian Neil Young gets a mention in that song due to his thinly veiled remarks in his song "Southern Man".

Neil also wrote Alabama, which Skynard took exception to. Interesting to note that Van Zant didn't disagree with Young's views, it seems he just felt that Young was unfairly painting all Southerners with the same brush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_home_alabama

Neil Young wrote lots of songs that either mention or evoke specific places: Ohio, Helpless ('There's a town in north Ontario'), Prairie Town (written with Randy Bachman about growing up in Winnipeg), Heart of Gold.
And he covered Ian and Sylvia's Four Strong Winds ('think I'll go out to Alberta).

[tamborineman]

Detroit Rock City---Kiss
Illinois---
Old Tennesee--
The Last Nail--[pennsylvania]
All by Dan Fogelberg

America by Paul Simon--Saginaw [Michigan seems like a dream to me now...]
Detroit City-- Bobby Bear
I got a gal in 'Kallamazoo'--- Glenn Miller

Surffin USA---[my old home town Santa Cruz,Ca.]

[ben_brown]

Highway 61....
I'll take the Johnny Winter version.

[shamustwin]

Sugar Mountain!
(It was) a teen gathering place of some sort in Neil Young's childhood Canada, couldn't be past a certain young age to gain admittance (you can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain).