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Every time Boston musician Will Dailey performs in Portland, he thinks about how Elvis Presley died the day before he was supposed to play a pair of sold-out shows at the Cumberland County Civic Center in 1977.
That's one of the local music history facts he's included in the first episode of a new podcast, "Sound of Our Town," which digs into the music scenes of 10 cities throughout the country, starting Thursday with Portland.
Dailey, an indie singer-songwriter that Boston Music Awards named its 2014 artist of the year, hosts the show, which examines each city's history, venues and popular local acts. Aside from Asbury Park, New Jersey, Portland is by far the smallest of the featured locales. The others are Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Phoenix, Houston and Philadelphia. New episodes will be released each week.
Dailey, who has performed in Portland dozens of times since the mid-2000s and has several friends here, including singer Anna Lombard and the members of The Ghost of Paul Revere, said he chose many of the cities because of his experiences playing in them and the connections he's made. For those he was less familiar with, like Houston, curiosity led him there.
"Sound of Our Town" is presented by iHeart, an...