# Who is on your state's Mt. Rushmore of musicians? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033 "2014-03-18T22:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/41 "2014-03-19T20:45:05Z")
Washington State: [ul] [li]Jimi Hendrix[/li][li]Kurt Cobain[/li][li]Bing Crosby[/li][li]Quincy Jones[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/42 "2014-03-19T20:52:28Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Wisconsin would have Les Paul for sure > > Liberace? I’ll go with those two as a start: Les Paul Liberace Steve Miller Woody Herman Honorable mention: Al Jarreau, Butch Vig (mostly as a producer), Robin Zander, Bobby Hatfield, ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/43 "2014-03-19T21:21:41Z")
Oregon: Curtis Salgado, blues master and inspiration for the Blues Brothers Esperanza Spalding, jazz bassist and singer Thomas Lauderdale, founder of Pink Martini Lee Dorsey (born in NOLA, moved to Portland at age ten), [Ya-ya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LnpErE6f4), and [Working In The Coal Mine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnX7uRTaEWg) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/44 "2014-03-19T22:01:00Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Of course I did, which is why there weren’t any groups/bands on the foursomes I actually DID name. Well, you did say that “there are tons more” that you “could easily have added”. So if the implied continuation of “could easily have added” is “if this were a different poll asking a different question”, then yeah, I guess you have a point. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/45 "2014-03-19T22:03:06Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > The OP doesn’t specify performers. I want to find a way to include Henry Mancini; if not, Ted Lewis. I would certainly allow Mancini. The OP should have clarified that the Mount need not be limited to performers. (I had to Google Ted Lewis) 🙂 mmm ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/46 "2014-03-19T23:34:15Z")
**OHIO** Stiv Bators Rick Derringer Trent Reznor Joe Walsh ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/47 "2014-03-19T23:41:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’m not from Liverpool, but I’ll take a stab at it. > > Billy J. Kramer > Aynsley Dunbar > Tony Sheridan > Cilia Black > > How’d I do? 😃 What?! How could you have forgotten Gerry Marsden? Or the great Holly Johnson?! I’m from New York, so this is a tough one, but here are mine: Paul Simon Irving Berlin Ella Fitzgerald Billy Joel Ella was born in Virginia, but moved to NY in very early childhood. Sadly, I think adding Bob Dylan would be bending the rules. And John Lennon would be breaking them. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/48 "2014-03-19T23:44:58Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > My California foursome: > > Jerry Garcia > Brian Wilson > Eddie Van Halen > Harry Nilsson Remove Harry Nilsson and put in Dave Brubeck. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/49 "2014-03-19T23:45:01Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Missouri: > > Charlie Parker > Scott Joplin > Chuck Berry > Pat Metheny I don’t think Joplin qualifies based on the OP’s ground rules (he moved to Missouri as an adult), so I’ll replace him with Grace Bumbry. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/50 "2014-03-19T23:49:14Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > I’m from New York, so this is a tough one, but here are mine: > Paul Simon > Irving Berlin > Ella Fitzgerald > Billy Joel :smack: For some strange reason I thought Berlin was a NY native. In his place, I’ll put in George Gershwin. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/51 "2014-03-20T01:23:35Z")
New Jersey: Sinatra Springsteen Frankie Valli Whitney Houston But this leaves off so many good ones. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/52 "2014-03-20T01:49:12Z")
Florida: Ray Charles Tom Petty Ronnie Van Zant Vanilla Ice ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/53 "2014-03-20T02:09:27Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#): > > Florida: > > Ray Charles > Tom Petty > Ronnie Van Zant > Vanilla Ice I strongly disagree with your last choice (a one-hit-wonder whose career was a total joke). There are dozens of other more successful rappers (Flo Rida, Pitbull, T-Pain), not to mention Jim Morrison and Gloria Estefan. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/54 "2014-03-20T02:46:49Z")
Build your own mountain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/55 "2014-03-20T03:05:01Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I strongly disagree with your last choice (a one-hit-wonder whose career was a total joke). Sir, need I remind you that Vanilla Ice was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze? ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/56 "2014-03-20T04:15:45Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > Washington State: > > [ul] > [li]Jimi Hendrix[/li][li]Kurt Cobain[/li][li]Bing Crosby[/li][li]Quincy Jones[/li][/ul] There you go. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/57 "2014-03-20T06:20:21Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#): > > Florida: > > Ray Charles > Tom Petty > Ronnie Van Zant > Vanilla Ice From John Nova Lomax’s [Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas](http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/08/a_musical_guide_to_post-secess_1.php): > [@](#): > > Vanilla Ice was the first Texas rapper to make it big, we are sad to report. Although he initially claimed he was from the mean streets of Miami. In fact, he was straight outta Richardson. If Florida wants to claim him, feel free! We Texans will be busily carving faces into several peaks of the the Davis Mountains. (A part of Texas that is **not flat**!) Blues, Country, Rock, Tejano… And one peak reserved for The Late Great Doug Sahm–who Played It All. (Hey, I notice one Louisiana list that omitted Clifton Chenier. Since he lived in Houston while he was inventing Zydeco–can we claim him, too?) ---
**Author:** ![NiceGuyJack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/niceguyjack/32/3069_2.png) [@NiceGuyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NiceGuyJack)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/58 "2014-03-20T07:00:33Z")
**A** gnetha **B** enny **B** jörn **A** nni-Frid Guess which country?:o ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/59 "2014-03-20T10:46:44Z")
> [@NiceGuyJack](#): > > **A** gnetha > **B** enny > **B** jörn > **A** nni-Frid > > Guess which country?:o This is a tough code to crack, but I think I’ve got it. The last letter of each name spells A-N-D-Y, so I’m thinking you live in North Carolina, where The Andy Griffith Show is based. What do I win?? mmm ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033/60 "2014-03-20T11:51:56Z")
Rudy Vallee, Trey Anastasio (and the other members of Phish), and Grace Potter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-states-mt-rushmore-of-musicians/684033.md?page=4)