Wicked Guilty Pleasures

I seriously debated whether or not to use this John Hiatt classic song that Mandy Moore covered. What I did NOT debate was that Mandy Moore ...

Today, we're up to Louisiana in #AmericanAutumn. And yep. Addison Rae (Easterling. It's her real name) is from Lafayette, Louisiana....

Surprise!   Taylor Swift was born in West Reading, PA, and spent a large part of her childhood in Montgomery and Berks Counties.   So yeah, ...

Pennsylvania might have been the most difficult state to make a choice of artist.   Why did I choose Live, one of the ironically worst live ...

His backing band is not really just the Destroyers. They are the Delaware Destroyers.   And indeed, born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1950, Th...

A lot of people assume that I don't like Bon Jovi. This is NOT true.  The first album by the New Jersey icons is actually a pretty solid...

The Northern Mariana Islands was always going to be the hardest day for me. You see, not a lot of popular music has come from there. Thankfu...

I've kind of been looking forward to Guam day.   Because Pia Mia was clearly the only artist I could choose, and I have been wanting to ...

Now I bet you're really confused.    The United States Virgin Islands.   Yep. And R. City are from there, hailing from St. Thomas.  Sure...

I have been holding this song back for a long while.   I go back and forth on it, honestly.  I don't always love the song, but I always ...

C'mon.  It's Rhode Island Day.  I'm not gonna not post Throwing Muses.   At this point, both Tanya Donelly and Fred Abong had le...

Yeah.  This is gonna be a two post day.  Sorry.  But I couldn't choose between two sisters again.   Belly is a fully, 100% Rhode Island ...

Well, we're up to Connecticut on our list.    And, yes, I know.  The Lonely Island are from California, largely.   But we're not her...

OK, maybe I should have done this song instead.   But I always say, give the people what they want.   And also, this song is in a live versi...

Maine was hard. Massachusetts?  Probably the easiest choice of the whole list.  You see, I grew up in a town called Enfield, CT.... which is...

Maine was one of the hardest states for me to do.  Not a lot of nationally famous musicians have come from Maine.   Patty Griffin is the ano...

New York is a big-ass state. So yeah.  Here's a second band from New York NOT from New York City.   Saratoga Springs, in fact. OK, fine,...

Anyone who thought I wouldn't be using Joywave for the New York entry hasn't been paying attention .  At all.   Joywave are from Roc...

Yes, I on purpose used a really obscure way to put these in order, mostly because I wanted to reliably mix in the territories and not put th...

Y'all were expecting reverse order of admittance into the Union, weren't you? Nope.   Today is Puerto Rico's day to shine.    An...