Well, cowboy songs were, very generally, all over the western part of my U.S. map. Granted, I hadn't put many of those in Oregon and Washington. Those states were full up with "Portland County Jail", "Acres Of Clams" and some of Woody's songs--"Roll On Columbia" etc. Only one of those might've been sung by people all the way "From California to the New York Island" though. ;-)

The map, like the songs, didn't have to be totally accurate to get the idea over that there were different strokes songs created by different folks in certain places. The occupations of those people were reflected in the songs too. Fishing jobs were most likely by the oceans--but some were from the Great Lakes too (although very few whaling ballads came from Chicago or Lake Michigan ;-) -------- My friend Scott Alarik does do an amazing rap about GREAT LAKES WHALING but that's about Minnesota and Lake Superior. And we all know what to expect from those guys.

Art Thieme