For each state weāll do nominations and a poll. Submit a song (can be about the state, reference it, by an artist from there or whatever, give a bit of blurb if its not obvious)
All the nominations go in a poll. Winner gets eternal glory, top 3 go on a big Spotify playlist.
Please give one nomination per post. Formatted as āArtist Name - Song Nameā and a link to the song.
Winners:
Alabama - Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Alaska - Nirvana - About a girl
Arizona - Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Arkansas - Al Green - Letās Stay Together
California - Elliott Smith - Angeles
Playlist:
Because it made polling much, much easier Iām going to keep a likes limit to make the poll. Iāll set it arbitrarily for each state. Letās do āthreeā today
Think it could qualify for about 8 of these, and pretty sure itās already featured at least once. But itās the opening howl of āIām going to Colorado, to unload my headā that I associate with the song so Iām chucking it in
I know this lot got derided as aan American Mumford & Sons initially over here but wwhen I interviewed them for DiS they were both really lovely people but also actually had a really rich knowledge about folk music. Anyway
