List of Songs About California - Other Locations, Cities, and Streets

Other Locations, Cities, and Streets

Title Artist(s)
"16th Street" (San Diego) Invictus
"26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" The Four Preps
"96 Miles to Bakersfield" George Lindsey
"Albatross + Ivy" Limbeck
"Alone in Santa Cruz" the Ataris
"Back to the 101" (or simply "101" in the U.S.) Albert Hammond, Jr.
"Back to Salinas" Mary McCaslin
"Bakersfield" Social Distortion
"Bakersfield" Tom Russell
"Big Sur" Adam Franklin
"Big Sur" King of Woolworths
"Big Sur" Magic Castles
"Big Sur" Mason Jennings
"Big Sur" The Thrills
"Billy the Mountain" Frank Zappa
"Bixby Canyon Bridge" Death Cab for Cutie
"The Blondes of Santa Barbara" Saint Milkweed
"Booyaka 619" (current theme song of wrestler Rey Mysterio) WWE
"Brand New Orange" Limbeck
"Bubble Toes" Jack Johnson
"Call of the West" Wall of Voodoo
"Caltrans" Doo Doo Wah (a song about California Department of Transportation road crews)
"Cambria" Jason Bennett
"Catalina" The Descendents
"Celluloid Heroes" The Kinks
"City of Deygo" Mike Nasty
"Coronado II" PolarisPolaris
"Cucamonga" Frank Zappa
"Deckchairs and Cigarettes" The Thrills
"(Don't You Go To) Goleta" Camper Van Beethoven
"Don't Mess With the Mayor" (Carmel) The Medflys
"Don't Wait on Me" The Statler Brothers (references San Diego)
"Dream Life of Rand McNally" Jason Mraz
"El Camino Real" Alfred Reed
"El Caminos in the West" Grandaddy
"Far Away Eyes" The Rolling Stones (references Bakersfield and L.A.)
"For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
"Freeport Boulevard" (Sacramento) Jackie Greene
"Friend of the Devil" Grateful Dead
"Folsom Prison Blues" Johnny Cash
"Get 'Em Outa Here" (Sweet Home San Diego) Sprung Monkey
"Going Back to Big Sur" Johnny Rivers
"Gone Country" Alan Jackson (references L.A. and "The Valley")
"Go to Montecito" The High Llamas
"Grapevine Fires" Death Cab for Cutie
"Heading for Hesperia" F.X. MacDonald
"Holly (would you turn me on)" All Time Low
"Highway 101" Social Distortion
"I Don't Like Mondays" The Boomtown Rats
"I'm a Raider" Luniz
"I'm Coming Home" Robert Earl Keen (references San Jose, Monterey Bay, and Santa Cruz)
"I Wish I Looked a Little Better" Sparks
"I Woke Up in a Car" Something Corporate (references San Diego)
"Johnny Come Lately" Steve Earle (references San Diego)
"June on the West Coast" Bright Eyes
"Kern River" Merle Haggard
"Kern River" Dave Alvin
"La Jolla" Grey Boy
"Leaving Las Vegas" Sheryl Crow
"Lodi" Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Lonesome Santa Barbara Blues" Mark Roberts
"Make-Up and Faded Blue Jeans Merle Haggard
"Manzanar" Tom Russell
"Matterhorn" Joy Electric
"Mendo" Loose Change
"Mendocino" The Sir Douglas Quintet
"Mendocino Desperados" Bob Gibson
"Mendocino County Line" Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack
"Miles from Monterey" West Indian Girl
"Modesto Is Not That Sweet" The Hold Steady
"Montecito White Trash Barbecue" Claude Hopper
"Monterey" Eric Burdon & The Animals
"Monterey" RhythmaRhythma
"Morning Misty Eyes" Tommy Flanders
"Ms. Santa Cruz County" Cracker
"Never Been to Spain" Hoyt Axton (references Needles)
"Next to Highway Number 10" John George Campbell
"O Valencia!" The Decemberists
"Ocean Avenue" Yellowcard
"October in Oxnard" Rake and the Surftones
"Old Cayucos" Craig Melia
"On Interstate 15" Wall of Voodoo
"Pacific Coast Highway" Burt Bacharach
"Pacific Coast Highway" Courtney Love
"Pacific Coast Highway" The Mamas & the Papas
"Pacific Coast Highway" Sonic Youth
"Pacific Coast Party" Smash Mouth
"Paddle Out" (song about surfing in Santa Cruz) Sublime
"Palmdale" Afroman
"Pescadero Days" Gary Gates
"Postcard from Lompoc" Kreg Viesselman
"Pretty Girl From San Diego" The Avett Brothers
"Quiet Beach Town" Franklin For Short (references Ventura)
"Ramona Moraga" Babyland
"Revelation Big Sur" Red House Painters
"Riverside" The Beat Farmers
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" Bruce Springsteen
"The Rocket Ships of La Jolla" Jesus Jones
"The Rose of the San Joaquin" Tom Russell
"Route 66" Nat "King" Cole
"Route 101" Herb Alpert
"Running on Empty" Jackson Browne
"Sacramento" Cuf
"St. Modesto" Chris Walla
"Salinas" Jackie DeShannon
"San Andreas Fault" Natalie Merchant
"San Ber'dino" Frank Zappa
"San Berdoo Sunburn" Eagles of Death Metal
"San Berdu" The Vandals
"San Bernardino" The Mountain Goats
"San Bernardino" The Satanic Surfers
"San Diego" Burning Brides
"San Diego" Feeder
"San Diego" L.A. Symphony
"San Diego" Parmalee
"San Diego" Roy Zimmerman
"San Diego" Starlight Mints
"San Diego" The Eternal Afflict
"San Diego is Burning" Agent 51
"San Diego Serenade" Tom Waits
"San Diego Song" The Coronas
"San Diego Zoo" The 6ths (Barbara Manning Vocals)
"San Luis Obispo" Ted Wulfers
"San Luis Obispo" Coyote (Marcy Brenner & Lou Castro)
"San Simeon" Bryan Ferry
"San Simeon" Goldfinger
"Santa Barbara" Matthew Hart
"Santa Barbara" Meg & Dia
"Santa Barbara" Mellow the Band
"Santa Barbara" Ronnie Milsap
"Santa Barbara" The Superficials
"Santa Barbara" World Party
"Santa Carla Twilight" Tiger Army
"Santa Cruz" Brian Sharpe
"Santa Cruz" Fatboy Slim
"Santa Cruz" JJ Cale
"Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" The Thrills
"Siren on the 101" Over It
"Someone else's parking lot in Santa Cruz" The Mountain Goats
"South Coast" Tom Russell
"South Coast" Dave Stamey
"Summer '79" The Ataris
"Summertime" (Mendocino County) Crimpshrine
"Streets of Bakersfield" Buck Owens
"Streets of Bakersfield" Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens
"Studebaker" Warren Zevon (Monterey, Fresno, Hwy 99)
"Surfin' U.S.S.R" Ray Stevens (references to Malibu)
"Sutter's Mill" Dan Fogelberg
"Talk to Me of Mendocino" Kate and Anna McGarrigle
"Talk to Me of Mendocino" Linda Ronstadt (also covered by Lee Ann Womack)
"Ten Miles to Bliss" Val Holler
"Tight Wad Hill" Green Day
"Trouble Child" Joni Mitchell
"Ukiah" The Doobie Brothers
"Vienna" Billy Joel
"Ventura" Lucinda Williams
"Ventura" Whiskey Chimp
"Ventura County Line" Fur Dixon and Steve Werner
"Ventura Highway" America
"Ventura, Ventura Space People" Shinobu
"Village of the Sun" Frank Zappa (Palmdale)
"We Weren't Crazy" Josh Gracin
"White Boy from Sacramento" Timothy B. Schmit

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