Challenge #5 and Giveaway! "We Will Rock You(r State)"

Welcome to the most successful songwriting challenge EVER. Prepare to be delighted, enthralled, wowed, and rocked.

I feel like this one is going to need an introduction for the uninitiated since we have a few new participants this time and possibly new voters. So here goes.

The Songwriting Challenge works like this:

1) The previous winner issues the challenge which is a song prompt (e.g., "write a song about X," "write a song titled X," "write a song containing X")
2) The undaunted awesome elite (aka participants) write a song with words and music, using their instrument of choice (or maybe no instrument? no one's tried that yet) to answer the prompt
3) Everyone records a digital version of his/her song as a raw one-track, one-take (eh ... more or less) with no massaging via production tools (except maybe just to adjust volume)
4) Everyone emails their file by the deadline (more or less)
5) I post all the songs
6) The public votes for their favorite with nobody voting for their own song because that is lame.

Then the whole process starts over. It's pretty much just for fun and to have an opportunity to be awesome.

The current challenge, which was due on summer solstice 2010, is to
write a song about the state you are from or the state you currently live in.
I think only little brother and I chose to write about our current states as we come from a band of traveling gypsies and so always live in the now. When all was said and done and everyone lobbed in their entries at the buzzer, or after the buzzer but close enough - I'm no killjoy - we had NINE total entries. This is all thanks to peer pressure. I do believe everyone that has ever participated in this contest has returned for this one and two new competitors were up for the challenge as well.

It's fun to talk trash and all but on a serious note all the competitors should know that they are all take-action winners. Rather than people that sit around and watch the Bachelorette and talk about how they could be awesome, you actually are. But now it is time to feast your ears on this:

Ballad of Wm Weld
Bob Uecker
harry orchard killed the governor dead
Las Vegas
Old (Northern) Dominion
old virginia
phoenix, az
Sweet Home Arizona
Welcome To Utah

I am experimenting with this new file hosting thing so sorry if it's weird.

Also, I know it is overwhelming and difficult to vote out of such surely awesome competition (okay I haven't heard most of the songs yet, but I know from past experience that they will be stellar). Also there are nine. Nine songs. Which is going to take a while just to listen to. So, take your time. Voting will go on for the next couple weeks. Also, there are some additional voting categories, to spread out the love a little. The winner will still be THE winner though. Happy listening!

Oh yeah, just kidding, there is no giveaway. Suckers.