This started with a couple of playlists from Jean Brendecke in 2002, with additions and mods per usual.
[USA - All States] Kent Stevenson & the Happy Medium School Children \ United States of the Blues \ Stevensongs Phil Ochs \ Power and the Glory \ Farewells and Fantasies Woody Guthrie \ This Land Is Your Land \ This Land Is Your Land Lou & Peter Berryman \ Your State's Name Here \ What Again? Hank Snow \ I've Been Everywhere \ I've Been Everywhere Odetta, Arlo Guthrie & Co. \ This Land Is Your Land \ A Tribute to Woody Guthrie [Alabama] Michael Aumen \ Alabama Jubilee \ Flatpicking Guitar Festival Craig Smith \ My Rose of Alabama \ Craig Smith [Alaska] Kate MacLeod \ Alaska \ Trying To Get it Right Johnny Horton \ North to Alaska \ Greatest Hits North to Alaska \ JOHNNY HODGES \ The Legendary JH \ Harmony Inside Passage \ SITKA SOUND \ Sitka Sound \ Sitka Sound Anchorage \ MICHELLE SHOCKED \ Short Sharp Shocked \ Mercury Ketchikan \ HEIDI MULLER \ Cassiopeia \ Cascadia
[Arizona] Cosy Sheridan \ Waltz for Arizona \ Late Bloomer Dorian Michael \ When Arizona Meets the Ocean \ The Way We Dance
{Arkansas]
Grisman & Garcia \ Arkansas Traveller \ Not For Kids Only
Sawtooth Mountain Boys \ Heading Back to Arkansas \ Blue Side of Lonely
{California]
Joni Mitchell \ California \ Blue
Acousticats \ California Republic \ Acousticats
{Colorado]
Skip Gordon \ Colorado Trail \ Lonesome Prairie Love
Al & Emily Cantrell \ Colorado Song \ A New Language
{Delaware]
Larry Kaplan \ Turn the Boat Around \ Worth All the Telling
Front Range \ Delaware \ The Road Home
[Florida] Barbara Lamb & Vivian Williams \ Florida Blues \ Twin Sisters Bill Monroe \ My Florida Sunshine \ Bluegrass Memory
{Georgia]
Texas Shorty & John Hartford \ Georgia Boys \ Old-Time Music on the Air, vol. 2
Seldom Scene \ Little Georgia Rose \ The Best of the Seldom Scene, vol 1
{Hawaii]
George Kahumoku, Jr. \ Hawai'I Pono'i \ E Lili'u
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole \ White Sandy Beach of Hawaii \ Facing Future
{Idaho]
Josh Ritter\ Idaho\ The Animal Years\ V2
Stefan Grossman & John Renbourne \ Idaho Potatoe \ Under the Volcano
Rosalie Sorrells \ Way Out In Idaho \ Folksongs of Idaho and Utah
{Illinois]
Catfish Keith \ What Fun We're Having in Illinois \ Twist it, Babe!
{Indiana]
Bob Wills \ Back Home In Indiana \ Tiffany Transcriptions, vol. 9
{Iowa]
Dar Williams\ Iowa\ Mortal City\ Razor & Tie
Greg Brown \ Iowa Waltz \ Iowa Waltz
{Kansas]
Cathy Barton & Dave Para \ Song of the Kansas Immigrants/Call to Kansas \ Johnny Whistletrigger
Nimrod Workman \ Way Out West in Kansas \ Land of Yahoe
{Kentucky]
Bill Monroe \ I'm Goin' Back to Old Kentucky \ The Music of Bill Monroe 1958-1969
Cathy Fink \ My Old Kentucky Home \ Doggone My Time
{Louisiana]
John Koerner \ Down to Louisiana \ Blues, Rags & Hollers
Clifton Chenier \ Louisiana Two-Step \ The King of Zydeco
[Maine] Larry Kaplan \ Aroostook \ Worth All the Telling Gordon Bok \ Isle Au Haut Lullaby \ Turning Toward Morning
{Maryland]
Trapezoid \ The Old Road to Maryland \ Now & Then
Erica Wheeler \ Maryland County Road \ The Harvest
{Massachusetts]
Ricky Skaggs, Ronnie McCoury, David Grisman & Del McCoury \ Boston Boy \ Mandolin Extravganza
Arlo Guthrie \ Massachusetts \ Amigo
{Michigan]
Joel Mabus \ Flowers of Michigan \ Promised Land
Lefty Frizzell \ Saganaw, Michigan \ 20 Golden Hits
{Minnesota]
Weird Al Yankovic \ The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota \ UHF
Karl & the Country Dutchmen \ Minnesota Polka \ Deep Polka
[Mississippi] Emily Kurn\ Mississippi Moon\ Things Change\ Self Leon Redbone \ Mississippi Delta Blues \ Double Time Wayne Erbsen \ Mississippi Sawyer \ Southern Mountain Classics Susie Burke & David Surette \ Mississippi Serenade \ Sometimes in the Evening
{Missouri]
Cathy Barton & Dave Para \ Missouri, Bright Land of the West \ Rebel In the Woods
Rick Thum \ Missouri \ Hammered Dulcimer Tunes
[Montana] Peter Ostrousko \ Montana \ Heart of the Heartland Wylie & the Wild West\ Montana Moon \ Ridin' the Hi-Line Patsy Montana \ Montana Plains \ From the Vaults- Decca Country Classics Glenn Ohrlin \ My Home's in Montana \ Land of Yahoe 1. James Keelaghan/Cold Missouri Waters..What a great song. has anybody ever read the book that inspired this song? A great read. Somebody should make a movie about this. 2. StoryHill/ After Dark.. A group out of Bozeman Montana 3. Jimmy Dale Gilmore/Goodbye Old Missoula 4. Front Range/ Montana Gal 5. Jenn Adams/Most Precious Days
{Nebraska]
Eric Anderson & Phi Ochs \ Plains of Nebrasky-o \ Best of the Broadside Tapes, vol 2
Tom May \ Open Spaces, Prairie Winds \ Open Spaces, Prairie Winds
{Nevada]
Bunkhouse Orchestra \ Nevada Girls \ Old-Time Music on the Air, vol. 2
{New Hampshire]
Smokey Greene \ Old New Hampshire Home \ The Friendly Voice of Smokey Greene
[New Jersey] John Gorka \ I'm From New Jersey \ Jack's Crows
[New Mexico] David Grisman \ Albuquerque Turkey \ Mondo Mando Johnny Cash \ New Mexico \ The Sun Years
[New York] Red Clay Ramblers \ Staten Island Hornpipe \ Stolen Love Country Gentlemen \ Welcome to New York \ Complete Vanguard Years PRISCILLA HERDMAN Goodnight New York - The Road Home Redwing
[North Carolina] Doc Watson \ Kinfolk in Carolina \ Then and Now Paul Smith \ North Carolina Breakdown \ Devil Eat the Groundhog Herald Angels \ My Carolina Home \ Old-Time Music on the Air, vol. 2
[North Dakota] Lyle Lovett \ North Dakota \ Live in Texas
[Ohio] Tony Ellis \ Ohio Waltz \ Quaker Girl
[Oklahoma] Woody Guthrie\ Dust Bowl Blues\ Dust Bowl Ballads\ Buddha Bob Wills\ Take Me Back to Tulsa\ Encore\ Liberty Mary McCaslin\ Oklahoma Hills\ Old Friends\ Philo Roy Rogers\ Home in Oklahoma\ Sons of the Pioneers\ BMG Tim Grimm\ Pretty Boy Floyd\ Names{Oregon] Joe Panczerwski \ Rye Valley Waltz \ Legendary Northwest Fiddler Woody Guthrie \ Oregon Trail \ Hard Travelin'[Pennsylvania] Dave Mallett \ Pennsylvania Sunrise \ Inches & Miles[Rhode Island] Cache Valley Drifters \ Rhode Island Bride \ Mightyfine.net[South Carolina] Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly \ South Carolina Blues \ Carolina Blues Willie Walker \ South Carolina Rag \ Roots of Rap[South Dakota] Chuck Suchy \ West Dakota Breezes \ Dakota Breezes[Tennessee] Ann & Phil Case\ Sunny Tennessee\ The Old Step-Stone\ Dry Run Sally Shuffield\ Tennessee\ Something in the Water\ Self Jimmie Rogers \ In the Hills of Tennessee \ No Hard Times Dean Johnson \ East Tennessee Blues \ Now That's A Good Tune Sawtooth Mountain Boys \ Rose of Tennessee \ Blue Side of Lonely[Texas] Heidi Muller \ Swing on Down to Texas \ Cassiopeia Red-Headed Fiddlers \ Texas Quickstep \ Old-Time Texas String Bands Gene Autry \ Yellow Rose of Texas \ The Essential Gene Autry[Utah] Rosalie Sorrells \ Utah's Dixie \ Folksongs of Idaho and Utah Bill Keith \ Green Mountain Hop \ Something Bluegrass William Ackerman \ The Second Great Tortion Bar Overland of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending \ In Search of the Turtle's Navel[Virginia] Mike Seeger \ East Virgina Blues \ Third Annual Farewell Reunion John Hartford \ Old Virginia Reel \ Wild Hog in the Red Brush[Washington] Judy Collins/Narration- Robert Ryan \ Roll On Columbia \ Tribute to Woody Guthrie Pete Seeger \ Old Settler's Song \ Pete Seeger's Sing Along (also known as Acres of Clams, done by Heidi Muller etc.) John Vinikow \ Washington, Washington \ Folklife 20th anniversary Riders in the Sky\ Salting of the Slug\ Silver Jubiliee\ Acoustic Disc Local songwriter Wes Weddell toured the state and released a CD in 2002 Linda Allen did a similar project some years ago. Utah Phillips has many songs about the struggle of labor in Spokane, Centralia, etc. JAMES TALLEY- Richland, Washington Touchstones (Cimarron) Heidi Muller\ Methow Suite\ Gypsy Wind\ self Korby Lenker\ Grand Coulee Dam\ The Ghost of Whiteboy\ Blue Light Battlefield Band\ Leaving Friday Harbor[West Virginia] Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin \ Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia \ Heart Songs Hazel Dickens \ West Virginia, My Home \ A Few Old Memories Phil Ochs / Hills of West Virginia / I Ain't Marching Anymore[Wisconsin] Peggy Seeger \ Up in Wisconsin \ From Where I Stand Sara Grey \ Cranberry Song \ Back in the Airly Day[Wyoming] John Denver \ Song of Wyoming \ Windsong Bill Staines \ My Sweet Wyoming Home \ Kerrville Folk Festival Bill Staines\ My Sweet Wyoming Home\ Just Play One Tune More\ Folk-Legacy[Puerto Rico] That Puerto Rican Feeling by Jose Feliciano[US Virgin Islands] "Saint Thomas" included on Bok, Muir, and Trickett First Fifteen Years Vol. 2.
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