State Songs

Infobox Album
Name = State Songs
Type = studio
Artist = John Linnell


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 45:11
Label = Rounder / Zoë
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfrxqlkldje link]
Last album = "House of Mayors"
(1996)
This album = "State Songs"
(1999)
Next album =

"State Songs" is an album released by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants in 1999. It was Linnell's second full solo album, following 1996's "House of Mayors". Four of the tracks on the album featured the carousel organ. This concept album features almost entirely tracks that are named after, and are at least partially inspired by, fifteen of the 50 U.S. states. The album is absurdist in nature, suggesting that there is another West Virginia inside of the state, that one can drive a house to Idaho, that Montana is a leg, Iowa is a witch, and Arkansas has sunken and is to be replaced by a ship of its exact shape and size.

Track listing

#"Illinois"
#"The Songs of the 50 States"
#"West Virginia"
#"South Carolina"
#"Idaho"
#"Montana"
#"Pennsylvania"
#"Utah"
#"Arkansas"
#"Iowa"
#"Mississippi"
#"Maine"
#"Oregon"
#"Michigan"
#"New Hampshire"
#"Nevada"