A few weeks ago, on Slack, which is a kind of work messaging system for those that aren't familiar,

one of my colleagues, Annie Ubank, sent me a message about this unusual musical artist.

She'd found on Spotify.

He goes by the name, the guy losing songs about towns and cities.

And extremely true to his name, he has a lot of songs about different towns and cities.

I'm from Minneapolis, and so of course there was a song for that.

My wife is from Bath, Maine, and so I played her this.

Maine, it's a great city, it's the city of ships because of all the selling ships that were built.

There are dozens of albums, one for almost every state, and each album has 50 songs on it,

covering the cities and towns of that state.

And they're all kind of similar.

But after listening to dozens of these songs, I also found this.

I've never left my hometown.

I've never left my hometown.

So I had to know, who is this?

Why is he writing songs about Worcester, Massachusetts, and Hot Springs, South Dakota?

And has he, in fact, ever left his hometown?

I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Atlas Obscura.

And after this, we meet this guy, the guy who sings songs about towns and cities,

and cheese, everything else under the sun.

And I was able to get in touch with him.

Well, because of this.

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