Feeling A Musical Home

What’s one personal image about your town or city that reminds you of being at home?

“Home is where the heart is.” (Pliny the Elder)

Sometimes when I travel long distances on those road trips for months at a time, I experience sudden feelings of homesickness. Strong memories of being back home in Florida typically accentuate then when I’m driving and playing music along the way. But not just any kind of music! It might for instance be a stirring protest song like Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banned” rendition to remind me how I fought injustice during turbulent times happening while attending University in Tampa during the Vietnam War era. Or perhaps I’ll feel stronger in hearing a Michael Jackson tune such as “Beat It”, which invokes reminders of my past struggles to teach inner city kids in downtown Miami.

So consider how a traveling band might similarly decide to title themselves with a city, state, or country whose past emotional impact on them inspires their creative musical talents. For wherever they play near or far, their performances become filled with “catchy” song lyrics and impressive stage components that provide clues to their passionate attachment to that special place.

In fact, I’ve determined there may be hundreds of bands currently operating in the United States that operate under such place name titles.So let’s look at little deeper into the reasoning for seven bands being so geographically associated. First study carefully some attached photos below. Following each image, look at the information about the band’s name, musical genre and one particular song of interest here. Finally, click on the link that follows for each of them, to observe some visual clues and song lyric meanings presented. See if you can guess why each location can be conceivably considered each band’s special musical home.