An A-Z of American Cities - C

 

No Chicago for you this week as that would be far to easy.Apologies then to Wilko, Sujan Stevens, Doris Day, Paper Lace and countless others

When Kevin Montgomery was singing about Cherokee City on his album 2.30 am where the girls are too rich and they're way to pretty it is not clear whether he is referring to Cherokee City, Arkansas (population 73), or Cherokee City, Iowa (population 5099).Whichever one it is it's going in.

In the comments last week Alyson suggested Last Train to Clarksville and Chattanooga Choo Choo.Hmm The Monkees versus Glen Miller? Clearly, there was  always only going to be one winner and it was one that I already had lined up.  Georgia then  as opposed to Tennessee and to the city of Clarkesville and it's population of 1991.

Dwight Yoakam featured last week so rather than featuring him two weeks in a row here are Freakwater  covering his song South of Cincinnati, a song taken from Rough Trade Shops Country 1 compilation. In the state of Ohio it is considerably bigger than the two above with a population in excess of 300,000.

Finally from another compilation Texas Boogie .. a collection of Texas songs (which has plenty of material for this series). We are off to Corpus Christi a coastal city and the largest in Nueces County, Texas which is marginally larger population wise than Cincinatti.Another cover with Johnny Rodriguez doing the honours on the Robert Earl Keen song Corpus Christi Bay.

The letter D next Sunday with Dallas and Denver being excluded.

Kevin Montgomery - Cherokee City

The Monkees -Last Train to Clarkesville

Freakwater -South of Cincinnati

Johnny Rodriguez - Corpus Christi Bay