Folk Songs About California

[from Terry S]
Billy joel/Say Good bye to Hollywood
MarkHeard/ Another Day in Limbo
Lucinda Williams/ Here in CAlifornia
Tom Russell/Manzanar
Brad Davis/California
Merle Haggard or Emmylou Harris/California Cotton Fields
Guy Clark/LA Freeway/Old No. 1
~Dave Alvin's "King of California," "Fourth of July," "Dry River," "Out in California," "Border Radio," "Ashgrove"
~Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," "Sinaloa Cowboys"
~Lucinda Williams' "Ventura"
~Merle Haggard's "Kern River"
~Keith Gattis' "El Cerrito Place" (also recorded by Charlie Robison)
~Tom Russell's "Joshua Tree"
~Jim Ringer's "Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go"
~Mary McCaslin's "San Bernardino Waltz"
Kate Wolf - several songs
Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald:
  Money Town (Fields of Elysian) about L.A.
  Henry Joseph (Unbroken Chain) family farmers, coming from OK to the San Joaquin

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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