I Like American Music pt.17 of 50 - No Sleep 'til Brooklyn

  Brooklyn's Beastie Boys - No Sleep 'til Brooklyn

Here are a couple of other artists also based in Brooklyn

Blood on the Walls - Rize

At the age of 18 Orville Burrell moved with his family from his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica to the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  He took on the stagename Shaggy, here is his 1993 cover of a 1960 Folkes Brothers ska hit 'Oh Carolina'.
Shaggy - Oh Carolina

I Like American Music pt. 16 of 50 - Velvet Underground Covers

Staying with the New York City theme here are three covers of Velvet Underground songs.

The Kills - Pale Blue Eyes

Rainy Day - I'll be your Mirror

                                     
Those Darlins - White Light White Heat

I Like American Music pt 15 - New York City

New York Dolls -  Personality Crisis 1973

 August Darnell's alter ego Kid Creole performs a tribute to an annoying neighbor.
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Endicott

yeah yeah yeahs - cheated hearts

I like American Music - Pt 14 of 50 - Jersey

  Had to jump coasts from the recent posts as research into the music of the mountains and plains is going to take some time.  In the meantime here are three bands that would have put New Jersey on the map if it wasn't there already. 

  The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides

Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies

Titus Andronicus - Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ

I Like American Music pt. 13 of 50 - Apparently I'm not Alone

  Esquerita  was an early influential Rock n Roll artist who was like Little Richard before Little Richard was Little Richard.  His real name was S Q Reeder but everybody knew him as Esquerita...here we'll let Mick Jones(not American) in his post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite tell the story.

  Big Audio Dynamite - Esquerita

  The Pixies' frontman Charles Thompson aka Black Francis aka Frank Black paid tribute to the Ramones on his debut solo album

Frank Black -I Heard Ramona Sing

Before there was Wilco and Son Volt there was Uncle Tupelo.  They memorialized the late Minutemen guitarist, singer and unfortunate member of the 27 Club, Dennes Dale Boon

 Uncle Tupelo - D. Boon

I Like American Music pt 12 of 50 - Everyone's Public Idaho

  I tell you, I didn't expect to find three appropriate songs to do a post on Idaho.  Here are Boise's Paul Revere and the Raiders version of a 1966 anti-drug message originally written for and turned down by Eric Burdon and the Animals.
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Kicks

  Next the Treepeople also from Boise featuring Doug Martsch on guitar cover the Smtihs

Treepeople - Bigmouth Strikes Again

  Doug Martsch went on to form Built to Spill in 1992.  They are still recording and touring to this day.

Built to Spill - Wouldn't Hurt a Fly

I Like American Music pt.11 of 50 - Washington State

Tullycraft - Then Again Maybe I Don't
Tullycraft- Then again Maybe I don't

Pedro the Lion - A Mind of her own

Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling