For North Carolina, let’s go with:
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Doc Watson
Ben Folds
No love for Chuck Brown?
Jim Morrison had long since left the state by the time he got famous. Tom Petty too. T-Pain is a better choice, since he T is for Tallahassee. Besides, if you’re going to name a “rapper”, though, Fred Durst has sold more records than all of them.
I feel like Chuck Schuldiner deserves a place, too. He may not have sold a lot of records but he singlehandedly created a musical genre.
If you put in Dave Brubeck, you can take five.
No Texas Rushmore is legitimate without Stevie Ray Vaughan, thank you very much.
I can fill up Georgia’s without going past the 1960s:
James Brown
Little Richard
Otis Redding
Gladys Knight
Then there’s the Allman Brothers (could also go Florida there), REM, Widepread Panic, the Black Crows, Chet Atkins, and too many country and hip-hop artists to try and list.
Damn, that would be very hard.
I considered him, but frankly very few people outside of DC know who Chuck Brown is.
The list had to include Ellington, Sousa, and Gaye (probably the 2nd most well known after Sousa, and I don’t think most people know he’s from DC).
Gatton was more of a personal choice. While certainly not nearly as famous as the other three among the general population, he was someone I saw fairly frequently as a teenager (he used to play in Wheaton regularly at a nightclub one of my friends worked at), and was an immensely talented guitar player. I met him many times and while I never coaxed a guitar lesson out of him, he was always friendly and willing to chat after a show, even to a teenager who wasn’t even old enough to be at the club.
Also candidates: Ian MacKaye (came closest to making my top four), Charlie Byrd (my favorite jazz guitarist), Tom Principato (great, but not widely known blues guitarist), and Henry Rollins (grew up in DC, but made his name out West).
My first three were the same, maybe I thought of Brown because I drive past his mural at Sweet Mango every day.
Canada
Neil Young
Robbie Robertson
Joni Mitchell
Neil Peart
New Hampshire had only Steven Tyler so I expanded to Northern New England. So now it’s Steven Tyler and Patty Griffin.
My birthplace was NY State and that’s been covered.
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Morrison may have moved around a lot, but many of his formative years were here…and don’t forget the Miami incident.
Nevertheless, I think the one deserving musician not mentioned is Jaco Pastorius.
My list from my home province of Ontario -
Gordon Lightfoot
Bryan Adams
Geddy Lee
Neil Young
(There are many and it’s difficult to choose just 4)
And from my current home in Suffolk, England -
Brian Eno
Ed Sheeran
Benjamin Britten
That’s all I could come up with. Many famous musicians live here now but few, it seems, were born here.
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Please tell me Stan Rogers was in the running!
NJ
Sinatra
Springsteen
Count Basie
Sarah Vaughan
With honorable mentions to Frankie Valli, Jon Bon Jovi, George Clinton, Debbie Harry, and Thomas A. Edison.
Definitely. There were some very difficult choices.