Glad to hear Craig Johnston's songs of the U.P. of Michigan mentioned.

"Maine" gets frequently mentioned in songs such as "John Henry" but probably because we're in one corner of this great country and we're an easy rhyme!

I don't think that anyone has mentioned Bill Morrisey's New England mill town songs such as "Snow Outside the Mill." One of my all time favorite songs was composed by a California young woman who hitch-hiked into Bar Harbor one summer, worked as a waitress, and came up with "Winter & I" in memory of her landlord. What a haunting song, celebrating the Maine that's left after the summer folks have gone south!

Gosh, there are so many lumberjack songs I could mention, ice cutting songs, songs from the Grand Banks fisheries, even a few that I've composed such as "Bailey's Mistake."

Say, Wesley, were you just trying to provoke some response? What part of this country are you from?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble