Prominent musicians from your state/all fifty states

In advance of the approaching July 4 national birthday bash, name some prominent musicians who were born and/or spent their formative years in the state of your residence. Feel free to add to or correct any of the entries below, as I mainly avoided using Wikipedia or web searches while compiling the list, which is far from authoritative. As you can see I'm still lacking entries for a few states.

Alabama - Sun Ra
Alaska - Jewel, Jon Butcher
Arizona - Duane Eddy
Arkansas - Roy Buchanan
California - Jason Falkner, Russel & Ron Mael (Sparks)
Colorado - Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
Connecticut -
Delaware - John Fahey (?)
Florida - Ronnie Van Zandt
Georgia - Otis Redding
Hawaii - Don Ho
Idaho - Doug Martsch (Built to Spill)
Illinois - Liz Phair, Billy Corgan
Indiana - John Mellencamp, Michael Jackson
Iowa - Tommy Bolin
Kansas - Melissa Ethridge
Kentucky - Wynnona Judd
Louisiana - Bill Doss (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix), Louis Armstrong, Allan Toussaint
Maine -
Maryland - Andy Bopp (Love Nut, The Myracle Brah)
Massachusetts - Steven Tyler & Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
Michigan - Iggy Pop, Jack White, Brendan Benson
Minnesota - Bob Dylan, Prince, Grant Hart
Mississippi - Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley
Missouri - Sheryl Crow, Tina Turner
Montana - Silkworm (don't know the names of the individual members)
Nebraska - Matthew Sweet, Buddy Miles
Nevada - Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
New Hampshire -
New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi
New Mexico - James Mercer (The Shins, Broken Bells)
New York - Lou Reed, Bob Mould, Johnny Tunders
North Carolina - Mitch Easter (Let's Active)
North Dakota - Jonny Lang
Ohio - Bootsy Collins, Chrissie Hynde, Dan Auerbach (Black Keys)
Oklahoma - Wayne Coyne (Flaiming Lips)
Oregon -
Pennsylvania - Donny Iris
Rhode Island - Tommy Keene
South Carolina - John Coltrane (?)
South Dakota - Mato Nanji (Indigenous)
Tennessee - Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star)
Texas - King Curtis, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Utah -
Vermont - Trey Anastosio (Phish)
Virginia - Dave Grohl
Washington - Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Ann & Nancy Wilson
West Virginia -
Wisconsin - Les Paul, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Steve Miller
Wyoming -

 

Rhode Island: Paul Motian

 

Connecticut - Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

 

John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina

And I'll add these:
Kentucky - My Morning Jacket
North Carolina - The Avett Brothers
Texas - Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter

 

Two more for North Carolina. I know the dBs also came from North Carolina, but I'm not sure if its two principles - Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - were born and raised there. If so, North Carolina appears to be a rather fertile ground for musicians (relative to its population).

 

Just from New Orleans alone we have:

Louis Armstrong
Dr. John
Aaron Neville
Phil Anselmo
Alex Chilton
Mahalia Jackson
Randy Newman
Trent Reznor
Wynton Marsalis
Louis Prima
Fats Domino
Frank Ocean
Allen Toussaint

 

Alabama: Hank Williams

 

The NY list is long, but add Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, Carole King, Vernon Reid for the Brooklyn part.
Paul Simon, Cyndy Lauper for the Queens part, etc.(I could be here all day!)

 

Also hailing from NC were:

Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Blind Boy Fuller, Roberta Flack, Link Wray, Tori Amos, James Taylor, Ben Folds, Laudon Wainwright III, Ben E. King, George Clinton, Chuck Brown, Marceo Parker, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Ronnie Milsap, Donna Fargo, Del McCoury, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson.

 

lists like this are bound to be endless. Artists born and raised in or whom cut their teeth in any given state could be immense.

 

Alex Chilton was living in New Orleans when he died but Memphis, Tennessee was where he was born and raised (and spent much of his professional career). No matter, New Orleans, LA has produced enough native sons and daughters as it is!

 

You can add Tommy Bolin to Colorado.

 

Please add Tom Petty and Ray Charles to Florida.

edit: I guess Ray doesn't count because he was born in Georgia but moved as an infant. Shame, as his formative years were certainly in Florida.

 

Although Bolin spent the early part of his professional career in Denver and Boulder, Sioux City, Iowa - where he was born, raised and buried - gets to lay claim to him.

 

ILLINOIS
Reo Speedwagon
Styx
Dan Fogelberg
Cheap Trick
Chaka Kahn
Smashing Pumpkins
Liz Phair
Warren Zevon
Johnathan Cain
Maurice White

 

Brad Paisley was born in and and spent his formative years in West Virginia. That'll fill in an empty slot.

 

Ok, but how do you define "formative years"? He was still a teenager when he moved to Boulder, Colorado. Just curious !

 

New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen.

 

For Connecticut, you can add Horace Silver (Norwalk), Charles Ives (Danbury), Diana Ross (Greenwich), Moby (Darien), and Nile Rodgers (Westport). Obviously this mixes and matches people who were in the state at various phases of their careers, but they all spent significant time in the state.

 

Maine / NH / Utah - Ray Lamontagne

When he hit it big, everyone said he was from Lewiston, ME (which is where he lived as an adult), but Wikipedia says he was born in NH and grew up in Utah, so maybe you can cross 3 states off the list!

 

James Jamerson - South Carolina

 

glenn miller attended high school and college in colorado,
i believe.
apparently,
we can also claim heidi montag...
but should we?

 

North Carolina : James Taylor, Don Dixon

 

For Ohio you can add:
Joe Walsh & Eric Carmen

 

He was in his late teens when he relocated to Denver and had already been appearing on stage with bands while residing in Sioux City, Iowa. But I can totally understand wanting to lay claim to Bolin.