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This is a list of songs about California. Many songs have been written about California; some songs describe its people, places, and events, while others touch on Californian experiences and state of mind. This list tries to compile those songs and the artists who wrote them, although many entries include songs covered by artists who did not write the song.
List of songs about California
| Title | Artist(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|
| " 80's Ladies" | K.T. Oslin | |
| "Adios to California" | John Hiatt | |
| " Ænema" | Tool | |
| "Ain't No California" | Mel Tillis | |
| " All the Gold in California" | Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers | |
| "All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Depression" | The World/Inferno Friendship Society | |
| "All Rooms Cable A/C Free Coffee" | The Extra Lens | |
| " Already There" | Radical Something | |
| "America" | Waylon Jennings | |
| "Answering the Phone" | The Mountain Goats | |
| "Antennas" | Rancid | |
| "Atomic" | Fieke Schepens ft. The Black Eyed Peas & Robin Thicke | |
| "Automobile" | Kaleo | |
| "Back from Cali" | Slash with Myles Kennedy | |
| "Back Home" | Yellowcard | |
| "Back to California" | Carole King | |
| "Back to California" | Steve Grand | |
| "Back to California" | Sugarcult | |
| "Back to California" | The Wallflowers | |
| "(A) Beautiful Place" | Good Charlotte | |
| "Birth of Serpents" | The Mountain Goats | |
| "Bless You California" | The Beau Brummels | |
| " Brad Logan" | Rancid | |
| " Breakfast in America" | Supertramp | |
| "Bringing it Back" | Lil Rob | |
| "Burning Hot in Cali" | Latyrx | |
| "Cali Get Down" | Radical Something | |
| "Cali Girl" | Ballyhoo! | |
| "Cali Iz Active" | Tha Dogg Pound | |
| "Cali Sunshine" | The Game (featuring Bilal) | |
| "Calfiron-I-Ay" | Deanna Durbin | |
| "California" | The Adicts | |
| "California" | The Airborne Toxic Event | |
| "California" | Akwid | |
| "California" | American Pearl | |
| "California" | Berhana | |
| "California" | Chuck Berry | |
| " California" | Big & Rich | |
| "California" | Blatz | |
| "California" | Blink-182 | |
| "California" | Debby Boone | |
| "California" | John Callahan | |
| " California" | Belinda Carlisle | |
| "California" | The Casanovas | |
| "California" | Robert Charlebois | |
| "California" | Kenny Chesney | |
| "California" | Childish Gambino | |
| "California" | Colonel Loud featuring T.I., Young Dolph, and Ricco Barrino | |
| "California" | Copeland | |
| "California" | Nick Cunningham | |
| "California" | Jeff Daniels | |
| "California" | Datarock | |
| "California" | Dealership | |
| " California" | Delta Spirit | |
| "California" | Dr. Dog | |
| "California" | Dressy Bessy | |
| "California" [1] | Bob Dylan | |
| "California" | Kate Earl | |
| "California" | EMA | |
| " California" | Mylène Farmer | |
| "California" | Jay Farrar | |
| "California" | Flash and the Pan | |
| "California" | Marc Ford | |
| "California" | Gomez | |
| "California" | Grimes | |
| "California" | Happy End | |
| "California" | Hawk Nelson | |
| "California" | Darren Hayes | |
| "California" | H.E.A.T. | |
| "California" | Hit'n'Hide | |
| "California" | Hollywood Undead | |
| "California" | The Kingston Trio | |
| "California" | The Kooks | |
| " California" | Lenny Kravitz | |
| "California" | Lil Rob | |
| "California" | Lana Del Rey | |
| "California" | Lisa Mitchell | |
| " California" | Amelia Lily | |
| " California" | Low | |
| "California" | Lucero | |
| "California" | Manfred Mann's Earth Band (lyrics by Sue Vickers) | |
| " California" | John Mayall | |
| "California" | Mazzy Star | |
| "California" | Tim McGraw | |
| "California" | Joey McIntyre | |
| "California" [2] | Mega Ran (Featuring MC Lars) | |
| "California" | Metro Station | |
| " California" | Joni Mitchell | |
| "California" | The Moffatts | |
| "California" | Shawn Mullins | |
| "California" | Gianna Nannini | |
| "California" | Never Shout Never | |
| "California" | Angel Olsen | |
| "California" | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | |
| " California" | Phantom Planet [3] | |
| "California" | Quasi | |
| "California" | Radical Something | |
| "California" | The Rentals (often mislabeled as Weezer) | |
| "California" | Josh Ritter | |
| "California" | Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise | |
| "California" | Stan Rogers | |
| "California" | Rogue Wave | |
| "California" | Roy Blair | |
| "California" | Vic Ruggiero | |
| "California" | Semisonic | |
| "California" | Silverstein | |
| "California" | Skydiggers | |
| "California" | Sarah Slean | |
| "California" | Something for Kate | |
| "California" | Ralph Stanley | |
| "California" | Stroke 9 | |
| "California" | Tea Leaf Green | |
| "California" | Toploader | |
| "California" | Tom Ugly | |
| "California" | Umberto Tozzi | |
| "California" | Unified Theory | |
| "California" | Gina Villalobos | |
| "California" | Rufus Wainwright | |
| " California" | Wave | |
| "California" | Wax | |
| "California" | The Wedding Present | |
| "California" | Brenda Weiler | |
| "California" | Wild Strawberries | |
| "California" | Wilson Phillips | |
| "California" | Winds of Plague | |
| "California" | Wiz Khalifa | |
| "California" | Yellowcard | |
| "California 1" | Con Funk Shun | |
| "California 37" | Train | |
| "California (All the Way)" | Luna | |
| "California and the Slipping of the Sun" | Gorillaz | |
| "California Babylon" | The Transplants | |
| "California Bloodlines" | John Stewart | |
| "California Blue" | The Orange Peels | |
| "California Blue" | Roy Orbison | |
| "California Blues" (Blue Yodel No. 4) | Jimmie Rodgers | |
| "California Blur" | Swirl 360 | |
| "California Bound" | Frank Black | |
| "California Bound" | Carolina Liar | |
| "California Bound" | Ronny & the Daytonas | |
| "California Boy" | Lil B | |
| "California Brain" | RapScallions | |
| "California Bummer" | Further | |
| "California Burritos" | Chuck Ragan | |
| "California Calling" | The Beach Boys | |
| "California Callin'" | Enrique Iglesias | |
| "California Cast Iron Soul" | Jamestown Revival | |
| "California Christmas" | Marcella Detroit | |
| "California Nights" | Best Coast | |
| "California Cotton Fields" | Gram Parsons | |
| "California Couldn't Pay Our Education" | Roy Zimmerman | |
| "California Country Boy" | Cracker | |
| "California Crossing" | Fu Manchu | |
| "California Day" | Starland Vocal Band | |
| "California Daydreams" | Joe Brooks & Kacey Cisyk | |
| "California Daze" | Peace | |
| "California Dreamer" | Wolf Parade | |
| " California Dreamin'" | The Mamas & the Papas [4] | |
| " California Dreaming" | MattyBRaps | |
| "California Dreams" | Theme song of California Dreams | |
| "California Earthquake" | John Hartford & Mama Cass Elliot | |
| "California Earthquake" | Norman Greenbaum | |
| "California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)" | Rodney Crowell [5] | |
| "California English" | Vampire Weekend | |
| "California Flash" | Attila | |
| "California Girl" | Chilliwack | |
| "California Girl" | Daniel Daglow, David Merriweather, Tony Banks (1985 California Beauty Pageant) | |
| "California Girl" | Eddie Floyd | |
| "California Girl" | Lucky 7 | |
| " California Girls" | The Beach Boys [6] | |
| "California Girls" | Magnetic Fields | |
| " California Girls" | Gretchen Wilson | |
| "California Gold" | dada | |
| "California Gold" | Defari | |
| "California Gothic" | The Lowest of the Low | |
| "California Grace" | Long Beach Shortbus | |
| " California Gurls" | Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg | |
| " California Here I Come" | Sophie B. Hawkins | |
| " California Here I Come" | Al Jolson | |
| "California Here I Come" | Shocking Blue | |
| "California Hymn" | Chris Robinson Brotherhood | |
| "California I Love You" | Rain Perry | |
| "California (I'm Comin')" | Little Richard | |
| "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)" | Meat Loaf | |
| "California Jam" | Klaatu | |
| "California Justice" | Five for Fighting | |
| "California Kicks" | Fight Fair | |
| "California Kids" | Weezer | |
| " California King Bed" | Rihanna | |
| "California Letter" | Chris Thomas King | |
| "California Lights'" | Rocket from the Crypt | |
| "California Livin'" | Mac Dre | |
| " California Love" | 2Pac (featuring Dr. Dre) | |
| "California Man" | Cheap Trick | |
| "California Man" | The Move | |
| "California Montage" | Young-Holt Unlimited | |
| "California My Way" | The 5th Dimension | |
| " California Nights" | Lesley Gore | |
| "California Nights" | Sweet | |
| "California on My Mind" | Morning Mist | |
| "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade" | The Decemberists | |
| "California Paradise" | The Runaways | |
| "California Part I" | Mason Jennings | |
| "California Part II" | Mason Jennings | |
| "California Promises" | Steve Goodman | |
| "California Promises" | Jimmy Buffett [7] | |
| "California Rain" | Delaney Bramlett | |
| "California Rain" | The Madden Brothers | |
| "California Rain" | The Rescues | |
| "California Rain" | Silvertide | |
| "California Revisited (Everyone I Meet Is from California)" | America | |
| " California Roll" | Snoop Dogg (ft. Stevie Wonder) | |
| "California Rose" | Roy Rogers & the Sons of the Pioneers | |
| "California Saga: Big Sur" | The Beach Boys | |
| "California Saga: The Beaks of Eagles" | The Beach Boys | |
| " California Saga: California (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)" | The Beach Boys | |
| "California Shake" | Margo Guryan | |
| "California Shower" | Sadao Watanabe | |
| "California Sky" | Unwritten Law | |
| "California Snow" | Tom Russell | |
| "California Son" | The Adolescents | |
| "California Song" | The Mountain Goats | |
| "California Song" | Brooke White | |
| "California Songs" | Local H [8] | |
| "California Soul" | The 5th Dimension | |
| "California Soul" | Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | |
| "California Soul" | Marlena Shaw | |
| "California Soul" | Edwin Starr | |
| "California Stars" | Billy Bragg & Wilco (lyrics by Woody Guthrie) | |
| "California Strut" | Walter Murphy | |
| "California Sucks" | Screeching Weasel | |
| "California Sun" | The Fire Men [9] | |
| "California Sun" | Gin Blossoms | |
| "California Sun" | Jem | |
| "California Sun" | The Outfield | |
| "California Sun" | The Ramones | |
| " California Sun" | The Rivieras [10] | |
| "California Sunrise" | Dirty Gold | |
| "California Sunset" | Neil Young | |
| "California (There Is No End to Love)" | U2 | |
| "California Trees" | Walk Off the Earth | |
| "California Über Alice" | NOFX | |
| " California über alles" | Dead Kennedys | |
| "California Vacation" | The Game | |
| "California Waiting" | Kings of Leon | |
| "California Way" | Tim Bluhm | |
| "California Zephyr" | Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard | |
| "California's Bleeding" | Amen | |
| "California's Burning" | Augustana | |
| "California's Lonely" | Smile Empty Soul | |
| "Californicatin" | The J. Geils Band | |
| " Californication" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| "Californie" | Air | |
| "Califormula" | Blackbear | |
| "Calistan" | Frank Black | |
| "Calyphornya" | moe. | |
| "Cancer California" | Bullets and Octane | |
| "Cemetery" | Strung Out | |
| "Champagne" | 311 | |
| " Check My Brain" | Alice in Chains | |
| "Christmas in California" | America | |
| "Christmas in California" | The Cheetah Girls | |
| " Christmas in Los Angeles" | The Rockettes | |
| "Christmas in San Francisco" | Tony Romano | |
| "Clouds Over California" | Devildriver | |
| "Coast of California" | The Kingston Trio | |
| "Cold In California" | Ashe | |
| "Come Back to Cali" | The Holdup | |
| "Come to California" | Matthew Sweet | |
| "Commandante" | The Mountain Goats | |
| " Cowboy" | Kid Rock | |
| "Crossing the Plains" [11] | n/a | |
| " Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)" | The Offspring | |
| "Curbside Prophet" | Jason Mraz | |
| " Dani California" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| "Day After Day (It's Slippin' Away)" | Shango (rock group) | |
| "The Day That Saved Us" | Automatic Loveletter | |
| "Desperadoes Under the Eaves" | Warren Zevon | |
| "Dirty Rotten Bastards" | Green Day | |
| " Do Re Mi" | Woody Guthrie | |
| "Dog Breath" | Frank Zappa | |
| "Drive" | Halsey | |
| "Drive North" | SWMRS | |
| "Drivin' to Kalifornia" | Redlight King | |
| "Earthquakes and Sharks" | Brandtson | |
| "Endless Summer" | Daniel Amos | |
| "Entertainment" | Rise Against | |
| "Escape Route" | Paramore | |
| "Estimated Prophet" | Grateful Dead | |
| " Exquisitely Bored" | Pete Townshend | |
| "Eyeless" | Slipknot | |
| "Feels Alright" | Mark Lennon | |
| "First Train to California" | The Cryan' Shames | |
| " Flakes" | Frank Zappa | |
| "Follow You Home" | Nickelback | |
| "For Crying Out Loud" | Meat Loaf | |
| "Forest Fire" | Dead Kennedys | |
| "Forever Yours, Forever Mine" | Grayson Hugh | |
| "Fort Bragg" | Andrew Heringer | |
| " A Friend in California" | Merle Haggard | |
| "From California" | The New Amsterdams | |
| "Fuck California" | The Presidents of the United States of America | |
| "Fuck You, I'm from California" | Goldenwest | |
| " Freak" | Lana Del Rey | |
| "Future Perfect Tense" | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | |
| "g2g ttyl" | blackbear feat. THEY. | |
| "Gene Autry" | Beulah | |
| "Get Back" | The Beatles | |
| "Ghosts of San Francisco, The" | Chris Clark | |
| "Go to California" | Motorpsycho | |
| "Go to California" | Rob Zombie | |
| "Goddam California" | Will Hoge | |
| " Going Back to Cali" | LL Cool J | |
| " Going Back to Cali" | The Notorious B.I.G. | |
| "Going Back to Cali" | Sevendust | |
| "Going Round the Horn" | New Riders of the Purple Sage | |
| "Goin' to California" | Gin Blossoms | |
| " Going to California" | Led Zeppelin | |
| " Gold" | John Stewart | |
| "Golden Showers in the Golden State" | Tom DeLonge | |
| "The Golden State" | City and Colour | |
| "Golden State" | John Doe | |
| "Gone to California" | Pink | |
| "Goodbye California" | Jolie Holland | |
| "Goodnight, California" | Kathleen Edwards | |
| "Greetings from Califournia" | The Neighbourhood | |
| "Grey Bar Hotel" | Gil Dabney | |
| " Growin' Up In California" | Night Ranger | |
| "Hang Ten" | Edwin | |
| "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod" | The Mountain Goats | |
| " Have a Nice Day" | Stereophonics | |
| "Headless" | Dog Fashion Disco | |
| " Heads Carolina, Tails California" | Jo Dee Messina | |
| "Heaven 90210" | Urge Overkill | |
| "Heavy, California" | Jungle | |
| "Heels Over Head" | Boys Like Girls | |
| "Here in California" | Dave Alvin | |
| "Here in California" | Natalie D-Napoleon | |
| "Here in California" | Kate Wolf | |
| "Highway 101" | Social Distortion | |
| "Highway Five" | American Music Club | |
| "Hippie from Olema" | The Youngbloods | |
| "Holiday from Real" | Jack's Mannequin | |
| "Holiday in the Sun" | Hot Hot Heat | |
| "Holly Wants to Go to California" | Funkadelic | |
| "Holly (Would You Turn Me On?)" | All Time Low [12] | |
| "Home" | JamisonParker | |
| "Home to California" | Karen Alexander | |
| "Homebody" | Zox | |
| " Hotel California" | Eagles | |
| "House in California" | Keb Mo | |
| "Hurry Up California" | Calvin Lechner & Simon Nagel (Sunset Main) | |
| "I Couldn't Live in Southern California" | Tom T. Hall | |
| "I Hate California" | Jonathan Coulton | |
| "I Hate California" | Uncle Kracker | |
| "I Heart California" | Admiral Radley | |
| " I Love You, California" (state song of California) [13] | Francis Bernard Silverwood | |
| "I Remember California" | R.E.M. | |
| "If You're Going To San Francisco" | Scott McKenzie | |
| "I'm Asking Her to Stay" | Sherwood | |
| "I'm Going Home" | The Kingston Trio | |
| " I'm Headin' for California" | Glenn Miller | |
| "In California" | Daz Dillinger | |
| "In California" | Lisa Marr [14] | |
| "In California" | Joanna Newsom | |
| "In California" | Stat Quo | |
| "In California" | Bill Wurtz | |
| "In Northern California (Where the Palm Tree Meets the Pine)" | Danny O'Keefe | |
| "In Your Atmosphere" | John Mayer | |
| "Irvine" | Kelly Clarkson | |
| " It Never Rains in Southern California" | Albert Hammond | |
| " It Never Rains (In Southern California)" | Tony! Toni! Tone! | |
| "It's a Longer Road to California" | The Wind and The Wave | |
| "I Want To Go" | Kelly Sand | |
| "Jamie All Over" | Mayday Parade | |
| "Just Like California" | Old 97s | |
| "Kal-E-Fornia" | David Lanz | |
| "Kali4nia" | Skandoe and Playboss | |
| "Kaliforn-Eye-a" | P.O.D. | |
| "Kalifornia" | Above the Law | |
| "Kalifornia" | Brand New Immortals | |
| "Kalifornia" | Fatboy Slim | |
| "Kailfornia" | Kaizers Orchestra | |
| "Kalifornia" | Kashmir | |
| "Kalifornia Dreamin'" | Nappy Roots | |
| "Kalifornija" | Vytautas Kernagis | |
| "King of California" | Dave Alvin | |
| "Land of Competition" | Bad Religion | |
| "Let It Roll" | All Time Low | |
| "Leaves" | Miguel | |
| "Leaving California" | Afroman | |
| "Leaving California" | Boys Like Girls | |
| "Leaving California" | P. J. Harvey and John Parish | |
| "Leaving California" | Maroon 5 | |
| "Leaving California" | Shawn Smith | |
| "Leaving Jesusland" | NOFX | |
| "Lights" | Journey | |
| "The Lights and Buzz" ('Christmas in California') | Jack's Mannequin | |
| "Like a California King" | Everclear | |
| "Live in California" | Bunker 225 | |
| "Lodi" | Creedence Clearwater Revival | |
| "Long December" | Counting Crows | |
| "Look at California" | Maze featuring Frankie Beverly | |
| "Look Out California" | Badfinger | |
| "Losing California" | Sloan | |
| "Madera" | Hey Ocean! | |
| "Maybe California" | Tori Amos | |
| "Meet Me by the River's Edge" | The Gaslight Anthem | |
| "Meet Me in California" | Plain White T's | |
| "Miss California" | Melissa Etheridge | |
| "Miss California" | Jack's Mannequin | |
| "Miss California" | Dante Thomas | |
| "Mission in the Rain" | Jerry Garcia | |
| "Move to California" | The Staccatos | |
| " Mursheen Durkin" | n/a | |
| "Music is the Victim" | Scissor Sisters | |
| "My California" | Lightnin' Hopkins | |
| "My California" | Beth Hart | |
| "Nevada, California" | The Jayhawks | |
| "New York to California" | Mat Kearney | |
| "Not California" | Hem | |
| "Nothing Left to Lose" | Mat Kearney | |
| "Now I Don't Hate California After All" | Carly Rae Jepsen | |
| "Oh California" [11] | n/a | |
| "Oh California" | Claudia Russell | |
| "The One" | Old 97's | |
| "One Big Holiday" | My Morning Jacket | |
| "Only in California" | Mack 10 | |
| "The Only Place" | Best Coast | |
| "Out Here in Cali" | Big B | |
| "Out in California" | Dave Alvin | |
| "Out in California" | Tom Russell | |
| "Outshined" | Soundgarden | |
| "Overdrive" | Katy Rose | |
| "Pacific Coast Party" | Smash Mouth | |
| "Pacific Theme" | Broken Social Scene | |
| "Palm Dreams" | Hayley Kiyoko | |
| "Parallel Universe" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| "Playing Favorites" | The Starting Line | |
| "Postcards" | Amber Pacific | |
| "Promised Land" | Chuck Berry | |
| "Pumping Irony" | Roy Zimmerman | |
| " Queen of California" | John Mayer | |
| "Race Cars and Goth Rock" | Butch Walker | |
| "A Railroad Trestle in California" | Eddie Hinton | |
| "Raining in California" | Human Nature | |
| "Reality Check" | OPM | |
| " The Recipe" | Kendrick Lamar | |
| "The Redtail Hawk" | Kate Wolf | |
| "Ride to California" | Paper Tongues | |
| "Road Trippin'" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
| "Rock Coast Blues" | Country Joe and the Fish | |
| "Rock Star Land" | Yellowcard | |
| "Route 66" | John Mayer | |
| "San Andreas Fault" | Natalie Merchant | |
| "Save the Drama" | Light FM | |
| "Scavenger Type" | NOFX | |
| " See America Right" | The Mountain Goats | |
| "Shadow of California" | Blue Öyster Cult | |
| "Shamrock Doesn't Grow in California" | Johnny Cash | |
| "She'd Be California" | Rascal Flatts | |
| "She's So California" [15] | Gary Allan | |
| " Shores of California" | The Dresden Dolls | |
| "Sink with Kalifornija" | Youth Brigade | |
| "Sleepy California" | Her Space Holiday | |
| "Snow in California" | The Stills | |
| "So at Last" | Butch Walker | |
| "So Many Roads" | Grateful Dead | |
| "A Song About California" | Hey Ocean | |
| "Song for Kelly Huckaby" | Death Cab for Cutie | |
| "A Sorta Fairytale" | Tori Amos | |
| "The Sound of California" | Brian Wilson | |
| "South California Purples" | Chicago | |
| "Southern California" | Andrew Heringer | |
| " Southern California" | George Jones & Tammy Wynette | |
| "Southern California Wants to Be Western New York" | Dar Williams | |
| "Speed Home California" | Sugar Ray | |
| " Stay the Night" | James Blunt | |
| "Streets of Bakersfield" | Homer Joy | |
| " Sugar" | Maroon 5 | |
| "Summer of California '79" | Number Girl | |
| "Sun in California" | Pitbull | |
| "Sunday Best" | Augustana | |
| "Sunny in California" | Aberdeen | |
| "Sunrise Sunset" | New Years Day | |
| "Take California" | Propellerheads | |
| "Take a Look Inside" | Over It | |
| "Tape from California" | Phil Ochs | |
| "To California" | Mighty Mighty Bosstones | |
| "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" | Donovan | |
| "The Trees in Cali" | Jake La Botz | |
| "Two States" | Pavement | |
| "U Got Nothin' on Me" | Demi Lovato | |
| "Unfair" | Pavement | |
| "The Vast Spoils of America" | Saves the Day | |
| " Ventura Highway" | America | |
| "Vinnie's Hooch" | Johnny Socko | |
| "We Don't Need Another Song About California" | My Chemical Romance | |
| "Welcome to California" | Elliott Niezel, Heartbeatz | |
| "West Coast" | Coconut Records | |
| "West Coast" | Lana Del Rey | |
| "West Coast" | FIDLAR | |
| "West Coast" | Missio | |
| "West Coast" | The Neighbourhood | |
| "West Coast Friendship" | Owl City | |
| " West Coast Poplock" | Ronnie Hudson & the Street People | |
| "Westbound Sign" | Green Day | |
| "Westside Till I Die" | TQ | |
| "When You Get to California" | Hoodoo Gurus | |
| "Where the Hell are My Friends" | Lany | |
| "Where's California" | Teena Marie | |
| "Winding Road" | Bonnie Somerville | |
| "Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread" | Bob Dylan |
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area
Other locations, cities, and streets
| Title | Artist(s) |
|---|---|
| "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" | The Four Preps |
| "29 Palms" | Robert Plant |
| "96 Miles to Bakersfield" | George Lindsey |
| "Albatross + Ivy" | Limbeck |
| "Alibi" | The Mountain Goats |
| "All Devils Here Now" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Almond Grove" | Cracker |
| "Alone in Santa Cruz" | the Ataris |
| "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" | The Mountain Goats |
| " 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" | Mason Jennings |
| "Big Sur" | The Thrills |
| " Billy the Mountain" | Frank Zappa |
| "Bixby Canyon Bridge" | Death Cab for Cutie |
| "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 |
| "Chino Love Song 1979" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Cloudy" | Simon & Garfunkel (references Berkeley and Carmel) |
| "Coronado II" | Polaris |
| "Cucamonga" | Frank Zappa |
| "Dance Music" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Deckchairs and Cigarettes" | The Thrills |
| " Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" | Woody Guthrie |
| "(Don't You Go To) Goleta" | Camper Van Beethoven |
| "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 |
| " Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" | Baz Luhrmann (references Northern California) |
| " 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 |
| "Going to Glendale" | Further |
| "Going to Chino" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Going to Malibu" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Going to Norwalk" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Going to Pomona" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Going to San Diego" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Grapevine Fires" | Death Cab for Cutie |
| " Heart of Gold" | Neil Young (references Hollywood and Redwood City) |
| "Holly (would you turn me on)" | All Time Low |
| "Highway 101" | Social Distortion |
| "Home Again Garden Grove" | The Mountain Goats |
| "I Don't Like Mondays" | The Boomtown Rats |
| "I Got the Blues in Santa Cruz" | Horace Silver |
| "I'm a Raider" | Luniz |
| "I'm Coming Home" | Robert Earl Keen (references San Jose, Monterey Bay, and Santa Cruz) |
| "It's Always Sunny in Long Beach" | MAX WEST |
| "I Wish I Looked a Little Better" | Sparks |
| "I Woke Up in a Car" | Something Corporate (references San Diego) |
| "It's Christmas Once Again in San Diego" | Barry De Vorzon |
| "Johnny Come Lately" | Steve Earle (references San Diego) |
| "June on the West Coast" | Bright Eyes |
| " Kern River" | Merle Haggard |
| "Kern River" | Dave Alvin |
| "King of Bakersfield" | Cracker |
| "La Jolla" | Grey Boy |
| "The Lady from Twentynine Palms" | The Andrews Sisters |
| " Leaving Las Vegas" | Sheryl Crow |
| "Lions (Linden)" | Pavement |
| " Lodi" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| "Lonesome Santa Barbara Blues" | Mark Roberts |
| "Make-Up and Faded Blue Jeans | Merle Haggard |
| "Manzanar" | Tom Russell |
| "Matterhorn" | Joy Electric |
| "Meet Me In The Middle" | Allstar Weekend (references Pacific Coast Highway and San Diego) |
| "Mendocino" | Michael Holm |
| "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" | True Love Always |
| "Modesto Is Not That Sweet" | The Hold Steady |
| "Montecito White Trash Barbecue" | Claude Hopper |
| " Monterey" | Eric Burdon & The Animals |
| "Monterey" | Rhythma |
| "Morning Misty Eyes" | Tommy Flanders |
| "Ms. Santa Cruz County" | Cracker |
| "Never Been to Spain" | Hoyt Axton (references Needles) |
| "New Star Song" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Ninety-Six Miles to Bakersfield" | George Lindsey |
| " O Valencia!" | The Decemberists |
| "On Interstate 15" | Wall of Voodoo |
| "One More Minute" | Authority Zero (references San Diego) |
| "Ontario" | The Mountain Goats |
| "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 |
| "Palm Springs Swing" | Keely Smith |
| "Palmdale" | Afroman |
| "Pebble Beach" | Vince Guaraldi |
| "Pescadero Days" | Gary Gates |
| "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Pretty Girl from San Diego" | The Avett Brothers |
| "Quiet Beach Town" | Franklin For Short (references Ventura) |
| "Ramona Moraga" | Babyland |
| "Red Hill Mining Town" | U2 (Joshua Tree) |
| "Revelation Big Sur" | Red House Painters |
| "Riverside" | The Beat Farmers |
| " Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" | Bruce Springsteen (references San Diego) |
| "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 |
| "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 Bernadino" | Christie |
| "San Bernardino" | The Mountain Goats |
| "San Bernardino" | Satanic Surfers |
| "San Bernardino Boy, The" | Cracker |
| "San Diego" | Blink-182 |
| "San Diego" | Burning Brides |
| "San Diego Song, My" | Arkady Luxemburg |
| "San Diego" | Charlie Walker |
| "San Diego" | Feeder |
| "San Diego" | L.A. Symphony |
| "San Diego" | Parmalee |
| "San Diego" | Roy Zimmerman |
| "San Diego" | Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra |
| "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" | Coyote (Marcy Brenner & Lou Castro) |
| "San Simeon" | Bryan Ferry |
| "San Simeon" | Goldfinger |
| "Santa Barbara" | Matthew Hart |
| "Santa Barbara" | Meg & Dia |
| "Santa Barbara" | Ronnie Milsap |
| "Santa Barbara" | Radical Something |
| "Santa Barbara" | World Party |
| "Santa Carla Twilight" | Tiger Army |
| "Santa Cruz" | JJ Cale |
| "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" | The Thrills |
| "Season 9 Ep 2-3" | Mom Jeans. |
| "Short Song About the 10 Freeway" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Siren on the 101" | Over It |
| "Someone Else's Parking Lot in Santa Cruz" | The Mountain Goats |
| "South Coast" | Tom Russell |
| " Streets of Bakersfield" | Buck Owens |
| " Streets of Bakersfield" | Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens |
| "Studebaker" | Warren Zevon (Monterey, Fresno, Hwy 99) |
| "Summer '79" | The Ataris |
| "Summertime" (Mendocino County) | Crimpshrine |
| "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) |
| "Teenage World" | The Mountain Goats |
| "Tight Wad Hill" | Green Day |
| "Trouble Child" | Joni Mitchell |
| "Ukiah" | The Doobie Brothers |
| "Ventura" | Lucinda Williams |
| "Ventura" | Whiskey Chimp |
| "Ventura County Line" | Fur Dixon and Steve Werner |
| " Ventura Highway" | America |
| "Village of the Sun" | Frank Zappa (Palmdale) |
| "West Coast" | Emily's Army |
| "West Coast" | FIDLAR |
| "We Weren't Crazy" | Josh Gracin |
| "White Boy from Sacramento" | Timothy B. Schmit |
| "Willin' (Tehachapi)" | Lowell George |
| "The Young Thousands" | The Mountain Goats |
References
- ^ This is an early version of " Outlaw Blues".
- ^ "California (Feat MC Lars), by Mega Ran". Mega Ran. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ Mates of State has covered this song
- ^ A cover was recorded by The Carpenters, and more recently, Meat Loaf.
- ^ "California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)". Retrieved 1 September 2016.
- ^ David Lee Roth also had a hit with a cover of this song
- ^ Cover of the Steve Goodman song
- ^ Local H frontman Scott Lucas described this track as a "theme song for the Midwest, very anti-California".
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073114/http://thefiremen.bandcamp.com/track/california-sun-ep-version
- ^ This song was notably covered by Ramones & Dick Dale and His Del-Tones.
- ^ "Holly would" referring to " Hollywood"
- ^ "California State Library - History and Culture - California State Symbols". Library.ca.gov. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
- ^ This song has been covered by Neko Case.
- ^ [1] Archived January 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine