This list may or may not be inspired by some unreasonable hunger pangs that I’ve had today.
What are some of your favorite songs that mention food?
Here’s my list:
- Hank Williams, “Jambalaya (On The Bayou)” (Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo)
- Alabama, “Cheap Seats” (dogs with mustard and relish)
- Little Jimmy Dickens, “Country Boy” (cornbread, tater, chicken)
- Joe Diffie, “Good Brown Gravy” (brown gravy, biscuit)
- Billy Currington, “Banana Pancakes” (banana pancakes)
1. Alabama, “Song of the South” (Sweet Potato Pie)
2. Alan Jackson, “Where I Come From” (Cornbread and Chicken)
3. Trisha Yearwood, “Everybody Knows” (Give me some chocolate and a magazine)
4. Tim McGraw, “Something Like That” (BBQ)
5. Craig Morgan, “That’s What I Lovr About Sundays” (Chicken and Baked Beans)
Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
Willie Nelson – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down (smell of frying chicken)
Kinky Friedman – Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
Kinky Friedman – Bananas and cream
Kinky Friedman – Highway Cafe (corn beef on rye)
Caitlin Rose (the other one) – Southern Truck Stop
Brandy Clark-The Day She Got Divorced-(She burned the toast just like she did the day before.)
Kacey Musgraves-Biscuits
Jimmy Buffett-A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
Will Hoge-Jesus Came To Tennessee (offered him a sandwich cause he was looking awful thin.)
Holly Williams-Waiting On June (Honey, don’t burn the bacon.)
Robert Earl Keen – Barbecue
Guy Clark – Home Grown Tomatoes
Gaelic Storm – The Bear and the Butcher Boy (our hero saves his love from a escaped circus bear by throwing meat at it until it gets its fill and falls asleep)
Cory Branan – Prettiest Waitress in Memphis
Jimmy Buffett – Last Mango in Paris
Shenandoah – “Next To You, Next To Me” (BBQ Chicken and a TV Guide)
John Anderson – “Swingin” (Brother’s on the sofa, eating chocolate pie)
Kentucky Headhunters – “Dumas Walker” (We’ll have a slaw burger, fries, and a bottle of ski)
Ricky Skaggs – “Halfway Home Cafe”
John Berry – “Better Than A Biscuit” (This one’s off of a rare John Berry album. I’m not going to lie, it’s a little corny…but it does have a neat bluesy feel to it.)
“Fried Chicken and A Country Tune” by Billy Edd Wheeler
“Greasy Grit Gravy” by Bobby Bare
Leann Rimes – “Nothin Bout Love Makes Sense” (jumbo shrimp) I heard Gary Burr sing this song last night at a songwriters show at the Nashville City Winery.
Mo Pitney – “Cleanup on Aisle Five” (cheerios)
Suzy Bogguss – “Eat at Joe’s” (eggs and ham)
Hal Ketchum – “Ordinary Day” (eggs and bacon)
Catherine Britt – “The Upside of Being Down” (Hagen Daz)
My five:
1. BURGERS AND FRIES AND CHERRY PIES–Charley Pride
2. GOODBYE EARL–The Dixie Chicks (black-eyed peas)
3. THANK GOD I’M A COUNTRY BOY–John Denver (got CAKES on the griddle)
4. BISCUITS–Kacey Musgraves
5. HOT DOG–Buck Owens
Gretchen Wilson – California Girls (fried chicken)
“Big Rock Candy Mountain”- John Hartford
1. Green Bananas – Jake Owen (I don’t buy green bananas, I don’t play that far ahead)
2. I Hope They Get To Me In Time – Darius Rucker (Mama’s in the kitchen, got fried green tomatoes popping in the pan)
3. The Good Life – Trent Willmon (I’ll go meet Amy at the Dixie Dog, get a number 3 and a Coke float)
4. Do You Want Fries With That – Tim McGraw
And I am shocked no one has mentioned
5. Cheeseburger in Paradise – Jimmy Buffett
“Cheap Seats”–Alabama
“Chicken Fried”–Zac Brown Band
“Jambalaya (On The Bayou)–Hank Williams
“Burgers and Fries”–Charley Pride
“Do You want Fries With that?”–Tim McGraw
Honorable memntion: “Biscuits”–Kacey Musgraves
The Deslondes – Yum Yum (basically a 3 minute ode to food)