Rosanne Cash – Top 10 Songs about Southern Places

I am extremely pleased not to mention honoured to bring a fascinating music Top 10 to you from the superb Rosanne Cash.  Rosanne has had an amazing musical career and most recently won the ‘Album of The Year’ at the prestigious ‘Americana Music Honors and Awards’ for her album The List

Rosanne was also the winner of the recent Top 10 Blog Top Musical Tweeter Award and I was delighted when she accepted my invitation to be a guest on the blog with a Top 10 of her own.  You can find out a lot more about Rosanne on rosannecash.com and you can follow her on Twitter @rosannecash

My top ten songs about Southern places, because I love the South and because some day I want to do a record of the same. Not in any order.

‘Biloxi’ written  by Jesse Winchester and performed by Jimmy Buffett

‘Georgia on My Mind’ written and performed by Hoagy Carmichael.

‘Big River’ written and performed by Johnny Cash.

‘Memphis In The Meantime’ written and performed by John Hiatt

‘Tennessee’  written and performed by Cory Chisel

‘Highway 61 Revisited’ written by Bob Dylan and performed by Johnny Winter.

‘Luckenback Texas’ written  by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons and performed by Waylon Jennings

‘Where The Hell is Robert E Lee’ written and performed by Chelsea Crowell (click the image for a sample)

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‘Miss the Mississippi’   written by Bill Halley and performed by Emmylou Harris.

‘Leaving Louisiana In the Broad Daylight’ written by Rodney Crowell and Donivan Cowart and performed by Emmylou Harris

Many thanks to you Rosanne for taking the time to do this Top 10 list and for doing me the honour of being a guest on the blog!

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