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Coffee Break: Cities and places

What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?Thomas Barwick/Getty Images, via NPR

by Anna Reed

July 17, 2017

In Minnesota, summer = travel. Whether you've been road tripping, flying to fantastic places, or hunkering down stay-cation style this summer, let's think about songs that mention cities and places.

Thanks to Zac who not only wrote in with today's theme idea, but compiled a great list of song suggestions as well.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention cities and places do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
Depeche Mode - Route 66
Frank Ocean - Lost
Frank Black - Los Angeles
The Secret Sisters - Big River