The 50 States: Florida

Next up on our tour of the USA is Florida. Florida, you are warm. You are surrounded by sand and water. You are the mecca of rednecks and old people. I once took a long vacation (3-months) to you. Unfortunately, however, you do not have that many good songs written about you -- you do, though, have lots of ehhhh alright songs.

Made a state in 1845 florida is the one that brought us such things as space flight, the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival, Gatorade, suntan lotion, refrigeration, riding lawn mowers, a river that flows north instead of south (St Johns River), alligators (FUCK OFF), an ATM machine for rollerbladers, 700 million cigars per year, the worlds largest strawberry shortcake, the sports fishing, shark, and dive capitals of the world, the longest river sailboat race in the world, Disney World, gun-toting-convenience-store-clerks, Pat Boone, Fay Dunaway, AJ McLean, Jim Morrison, Sidney Poitier, Janet Reno, David Robinson, and suspicious voting activities.

Never the less, we love you Florida!

• A New Found Glory - It Will Never Snow In Florida
• Mike Seeger and Paul Brown - Down to Tampa
• Superchunk - Floridas on Fire
• Against Me - Sink Florida, Sink
• The Jayhawks - Tampa to Tulsa
• Lightnin' Hopkins - Going Back to Florida
• Miami Sound Machine - Hot Summer Nights
• Grandaddy - Florida
• Elvis Presley - Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
• Troubled Hubble - Floribraska
• Bob Seger - Florida Time
• U2 - Miami
• Muddy Waters - Deep Down in Florida
• Eric Clapton - Mainline Florida
• Will Smith - Miami
• Fudgie and FuFu - God Bless America, Especially Florida and Texas
• Randy Newman - Miami
  
• Lyndrd Skynrd - Jacksonville Kid
• Barbecue Bob - Jacksonville Blues
• Blind Arthur Blake - Tampa Bound
• Booker T & The MGs - Sarasota Sunset
• Coolio - Miami Life
• Cult of Sue Todd - Burn Florida
• St. Louis Jimmy - Floria Hurricane
• The Park Bench Rant - Supermarket in Sarasota
• The Microphones - Florida Beach
• Whiskeytown - Jacksonville Skyline