Music - Monthly New Hampshire Playlist

Starting a little recurring feature here. Each month I will feature a set of New Hampshire musicians that I find. I'll either find them on or upload them to imeem.com and post the playlist for the month in the post or over to the side so that you can come back and hear it whenever you want or you can grab it and post it on your site, that's the beauty of Web 2.0. So this months playlist comes from my earlier post about famous musicians who call NH home. If you go back to it (Where Do You Call Home? - A Call Out) you'll see the wikipedia page about famous people from the Granite State and one section is devoted to musicians. I love music so I thought I'd start this piece. So here is the first NH famous musician playlist (as you can tell it'll take me some time to gather up a full playlist so I'll definitely need the full month). I won't lie this playlist was made in order of pride. From top to bottom the artists I'm most proud to say came from my state.



Aerosmith makes the out of pure legacy, Ray Lamontagne goes second because if you've heard his voice you'll understand, the drummer from the Dresden Dolls is a respectable third. Here's where it starts to trail a bit. According to his wikipedia page Tom Rush was one of the few credited with starting the singer/songwriter genre which is amazing in and of itself however I hadn't ever heard of him before so I had to put him lower, Jon Spencer is a granite stater and I know I'm probably supposed to like them but I never really got into them so they go fifth. Black Sabbath is OK but really they aren't the same without Ozzy and unfortunately for Ronnie James Dio (the NHer) it's some pretty big shoes to fill: sixth on my list. The story of GG Allin is crazy and pretty long, the fact that I now know he's from NH I might have to devote an entire post to him but just know this, he allegedly committed suicide on stage in NYC. The Queers, not really familiar with them, I'm sure once being a fan of punk it's sacrilege to say I don't know this band or something but I just don't. Now we get into the real embarrassing stuff, Godsmack - ugh, Mandy Moore - yikes! Adam Sandler - We got into him enough but honestly the skit on here is terrific and if you have two minutes you should listen.