u/SeparateDragonfly479

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I have been collecting songs with real place references since 2020. It started with songs I heard while driving, but over time I began mapping references from all over the country.

This page is the Florida section of that larger project. It includes songs that mention Florida cities, towns, counties, rivers, highways, beaches, landmarks, and regions, along with artists who have meaningful ties to the state.

Some locations are obvious, while others took a little digging. A lyric might name a town directly, refer to a beach, river, road, or neighborhood, or only give enough context to make an educated guess.

The map is definitely not complete. I am sure I have missed some good ones, and there are probably a few locations that need correcting. The full project now covers tens of thousands of lyrics, so keeping everything accurate has become a much bigger job than I originally expected.

I would be interested to hear what Florida songs, artists, or place references I should add. really looking for local bands too --just need an apple music or spotify.
https://roadygoat.com/florida/

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I have been collecting songs with real place references since 2020. It started with songs I heard while driving, but over time I began mapping references from across the country.

It includes songs that mention Atlanta and Georgia towns, counties, rivers, highways, landmarks, neighborhoods, and regions, along with artists who have meaningful ties to the state.

Some locations are obvious, while others took a little digging. A lyric might name a town directly, refer to a river or road, or provide only enough context to make an educated guess.

The map is definitely not complete. I am sure I have missed some good songs, and there are probably a few locations or artist connections that need correcting. The full project now covers tens of thousands of lyrics, so keeping everything accurate has become a much larger job than I originally expected.

There is a “Report / Suggest” button near the top of the page where anyone can submit a correction, suggest a song, or request that something be added or feel free to mention it here. I would genuinely appreciate help from people who know Georgia better than I do.

What other Atlanta and Georgia songs, artists, or place references should I add?
https://roadygoat.com/georgia/

I have been collecting songs with real place references since 2020. It started with songs I heard while driving, but over time I began mapping references from all over the country.

This page is the Alabama section of that larger project. It includes songs that mention Alabama towns, counties, rivers, highways, landmarks, and regions, along with artists who have meaningful ties to the state.

Some locations are obvious, while others took a little digging. A lyric might name a town directly, refer to a river or road, or only give enough context to make an educated guess.

The map is definitely not complete. I am sure I have missed some good ones, and there are probably a few locations that need correcting. The full project now covers tens of thousands of lyrics, so keeping everything accurate has become a much bigger job than I originally expected.

I would be interested to hear what Alabama songs, artists, or place references I should add.

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https://roadygoat.com/alabama/

🎵 Louisiana Music Map Project 🎵

https://roadygoat.com/louisiana/

I've been working on a project that maps Louisiana references in music. (I'd already built the same kind of map for Texas and Oklahoma, and Louisiana turned out to be one of the richest yet.)

I pulled lyrics from country, Cajun, zydeco, blues, jazz, swamp pop, rock, hip hop, bounce, Americana, folk, gospel, R&B, and anything else I could find, then tagged Louisiana place references to real coordinates.

Right now it includes:

• Songs tied to specific Louisiana places
• Artists and artist hometowns
• Cities, small towns, parishes, bayous, rivers, lakes, highways, neighborhoods, and regions
• Layers for parish lines, cultural regions, highways, rivers, bayous, and local story areas

The fun part is how many different parts of Louisiana show up. It is not just New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and Lake Charles. I'm seeing places like Opelousas, Eunice, Mamou, Breaux Bridge, Houma, Thibodaux, Natchitoches, Monroe, Alexandria, Bogalusa, Morgan City, Abbeville, Rayne, Ferriday, Kentwood, Avery Island, Gibsland, and a lot more.

New Orleans obviously has its own gravity, especially with jazz, bounce, R&B, brass bands, and hip hop — you can see it in the song clusters along Bourbon Street, Basin Street, Frenchmen Street, and St. Charles Avenue. But Louisiana music spreads way beyond that. Cajun and zydeco light up Acadiana, blues runs deep through Baton Rouge and north Louisiana, swamp pop shows up across the south, and country/Americana songs hit a lot of small towns, highways, rivers, and bayou country.

I'm also seeing clusters around Acadiana and Cajun Country, the Mississippi River, the Atchafalaya, Lake Pontchartrain, the Louisiana Gulf Coast, River Road, and old routes like Highway 90 and the I-10 corridor through south Louisiana.

I'm still cleaning it up, but it's already become a pretty interesting way to see Louisiana through music -- not just where artists are from, but which places actually made it into songs. Doing Texas and Oklahoma first gave me a feel for it, but every state has its own shape, and Louisiana's is unlike anywhere else.

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I'm still looking for:

• Small-town mentions
• Local Louisiana artists
• Cajun songs
• Zydeco songs
• Bounce and hip hop references
• Blues and swamp pop songs
• Creole, Cajun, and tribal/cultural place references
• Bayou, river, lake, and Gulf Coast songs
• Anything tied to Louisiana parishes, towns, neighborhoods, or regions

What's the most Louisiana song you can think of?

🎵 Oklahoma Music Map Project 🎵

I’ve been working on a project that maps Oklahoma references in music.

I pulled lyrics from country, red dirt, folk, blues, rock, hip hop, Americana, indie, and anything else I could find, then tagged Oklahoma place references to real coordinates.

Right now it includes:

• Songs tied to specific Oklahoma places
• Artists and artist hometowns
• Towns, cities, counties, highways, rivers, lakes, and regions
• Layers for county lines, cultural regions, highways, rivers, and local story areas

The fun part is how many small towns show up. It is not just Tulsa, OKC, Norman, Stillwater, and Muskogee. I’m seeing places like Okemah, Tahlequah, Ada, Seminole, Ardmore, Lawton, Broken Bow, Guthrie, Pawhuska, McAlester, Durant, and a lot more.

Red dirt obviously carries a lot of the map, but there’s more variety than I expected. Country and Americana show up everywhere, Tulsa has its own gravity, Oklahoma City appears across several genres, and folk/old-time music hits a lot of historic towns and highways.

I’m also seeing clusters around Route 66, Lake Texoma, the Cherokee Nation area, and eastern Oklahoma.

I’m still cleaning it up, but it’s already become a pretty interesting way to see Oklahoma through music — not just where artists are from, but which places actually made it into songs.

I’m still looking for:

• Small-town mentions
• Local Oklahoma artists
• Red dirt songs
• Old folk songs
• Hip hop references
• Tribal or cultural place references
• River and lake songs
• Anything tied to Oklahoma counties, towns, or regions

im looking for somehelp with marketing my app. I have no idea where to begin

I’m looking for someone to help market RoadyGoat, an iPhone app that plays local music, town stories, roadside geology, and local sports/history as you drive.

The app is live on iOS. Users need an iPhone and either Apple Music or Spotify connected.

Pay:

$100 fixed project for marketing/community research.

What I need:

I need help promoting my app. Looking to partner with someone that can help me grow this. I am a developer not a people person. We can discuss comission based additional payments too.

Been working on this for a while. Pulled lyrics from country, hip hop, americana, indie, basically anything I could find, and tagged every Texas place reference to real coordinates.

What's in there right now:

• 6,470 songs tied to specific Texas places
• 1,375 artists
• 323 cities, everywhere from El Paso to Texarkana
• Layers for artist hometowns, county lines, cultural regions, rivers, highways

The fun part is the small towns. Stonewall, Turkey, Abbott, Tilden, Poteet, Mart, Channing. Most of them have at least one. Even Luckenbach gets its Waylon pin in the Hill Country.

Country wins by a mile (3,640 tracks) but hip hop is bigger than I expected at 1,335, mostly Houston, Dallas, and Port Arthur. Blues clusters around Navasota and the Trinity bottoms -generally East Texas. Folk skews Hill Country and the Big Bend. Not much Tejano (yet) but obviously South Texas and San Antone.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post the URL outright, so leaving it as a screenshot for now (mods, take it down if not, I understand). Couldn't figure out a way to embed the interactive version on Reddit either. If y'all know any songs about Texas places I missed, drop them in the comments and I'll add them.

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I built an app that plays music from local artists while you drive and shares stories about the specific places you're passing through.

Corsicana is on my list. I'm trying to get real coverage here, not just filler content, and smaller towns in the area matter a lot for what I'm building.

If you're from here or know the area, what should people know?

Looking for:

• local artists or bands (must be on Spotify or Apple Music, small ones are fine)
• local history, folklore, things people around here just know
• places people from Corsicana are proud of
• anything unique or specific to this area

More specific is always better. If you know a small nearby town really well, that's actually more useful than just Corsicana.

Already have a lot built out but this part of Texas still has real gaps. Thanks for anything you can share.