[music, travel, books]

[wispfox]

The line in Ghost, by the Indigo Girls, which says "the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota at a place which you could walk across with five steps down" means I just added seeing the source of the Mississippi to the things I want to see, in my year of wandering.

Because of this, I'm wondering if there are any other places in the US that I should visit, based on lines from songs. Alternately, suggestions from books.

Anyone have any musical or literary suggestions for places to travel in the contiguous US?

Comments

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

There are probably hundreds of them in NYC -- I know I kept stumbling across things and going "oh, so THAT'S where this is!" -- but we can always show some of them to you on one of your visits down here. :)

Obligatory jaded ex-Floridian comment: Stephen Foster never set foot in Florida, and thus never actually saw the Suwannee. This amused the hell out of me, actually, especially the time some out-of-state guest performers at the Florida Folk Festival (which is held right by the banks of the river) started going on about communing with his spirit.

It is pretty there, though. I swam across the Suwannee and back, one year at the festival. I might go back, someday.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

There are probably hundreds of them in NYC -- I know I kept stumbling across things and going "oh, so THAT'S where this is!" -- but we can always show some of them to you on one of your visits down here. :)

Better yet, show them and sing a snippet of the approrpiate song! ('cause I might not know)