Travelogue USA, NY-TX has a backstory.
From my post way back on June 29, 2005: “Fred [Hembeck] was involved with a bunch of folks, most of them interested in comic books, who did a bloggers’ exchange of mixed CDs, initiated by Chris ‘Lefty’ Brown. As I wasn’t blogging at the time, I couldn’t participate. But now that I am posting fairly regularly [that is to say, at least daily], I got to give it a go in the second round with these very diverse folks (May 23).
“I decided to use the first of my American Travelogue discs, but I made a few changes.” You can read the rationale in the post and also my non-review of my own CD here.
US: American Roulette – Robbie Robertson
NY: New York, New York – Ryan Adams NJ: Atlantic City – The Band PA: Allentown – Billy Joel
MD: Baltimore – Peter Case
DC: The Bourgeois Blues – Taj Mahal.
VA: Oh, Virginia – Blessed Union of Souls
Mom
NC: Take The Train To Charlotte – Fiddlin’ John Carson. This is the title of the post I wrote on February 2, 2011, when I went to see my mother. I did not know that would be the day she died.
SC: Darlington County – Bruce Springsteen
GA: Oh, Atlanta – Alison Krauss
FL: Gator On The Lawn – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
AL: Alabamy Home – the Gotham Stompers
MS: The Jazz Fiddler – the Mississippi Sheiks
LA: Down at the Twist and Shout – Mary Chapin Carpenter
TX: That’s Right (You’re Not from Texas) – Lyle Lovett
US: American Honky Tonk Bar Association – Garth Brooks, the one song I had my doubts about. I could have and probably should have used U.S. Blues – Harshed Mallows
I ended up making a few dozen of these mixed CDs, either just for Fred or for the blogger collective. And I have a bunch from Fred, Lefty Brown, and several others, even Greg Burgas, which I plan to play in the next few months. Some of the ones I made I’ll recreate here over time, but in no particular order.