Would love to have any food songs you all can come up with…I’m onair March 7 and am collecting songs related to food…

Thanks!

Jennifer

Guy Clark: Home Grown Tomatoes
Country Gentlemen: Banana Boat Song
Greg Brown: Good Morning Coffee (The live version from Newport Festival) Coffee is my breakfast food.
also by Greg: Canned Goods, and Smell of Coffee

Trout Fishing in America: Beans & Weanies
and the one about school lunch programs called Why I Pack my Lunch
and the other one called: Boiled Okra and Spinach. (mmmm Yum!)

Cheryl Wheeler: Potato
Robert Earl Keen: Farm Fresh Onions
Steve Goodman: Chicken Cordon Blues
Arrogant Worms: Carrot Juice is Murder and the song I Am Cow
Tamarack: Maple Syrup Time
Jack Williams: Mama Lou (about his mom’s cooking.)
Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers: Garlic Waltz
Shelley Posen: How Come You Don’t Have Tongue

and finally….
Dave Mallet: The Garden Song
or
Bill Staines: Secret Garden

I’ll be sure to listen to the show!!

Paul

How about….

“Strawberry Jam” - Michelle Shocked
“Fishing Blues” - Taj Mahal
“Fast Food” - Richard Thompson
“Junk Food” - Patty Larkin
“Nighthawks at the Diner” - Tom Waits
“Alice’s Restaurant” - Arlo Guthrie”
“One More Cup Of Coffee” - Bob Dylan
“Lemon Tree” - Peter, Paul & Mary
“Buffy’s Quality Cafe” - Bill Staines
“Barnyard Dance” - Steve Goodman
“One Meat Ball” - Christine Lavin
“Cold Pizza For Breakfast” - Christine Lavin
“Taco Bell Canon” - Christine Lavin

YUM!  Great idea for a show!  Paul beat me to suggesting Jack Williams’ Mama Lou; great song.  One of my favorite food songs—you can gain about 10 pounds just listening to it—is unfortunately not our format, but fyi just because it’s fun: Junior’s Grill (NBDB, The Rest of the Dream CD).  Another delicious one is Kate Campbell’s Funeral Food: “We sure eat good when someone dies…it’s so good for the soul.” 

And now some that might fit our format butter, er I mean better.  Several fit food but don’t necessarily fit nutrition:
Health Food (Fitzgerald and Beach)
You Can Eat Dog Food (Austin Lounge Lizards)
Tastes Like Chicken (Austin Lounge Lizards)
Toasted Chicken Sandwich (Carla Ulbrich)
Bread Alone (Jay Mankita)
Let us Break Bread Together (many)
Boot Soup (Tanglewood)
Cornbread and ‘Lasses and Sassafras Tea (John Lilly—bonus for upcoming Acoustic Brew artist!)
Apples and Pears (Rosalie Sorrells)
Soup (John McCutcheon)
Roadfoad (Cozy Sheridan)
Taters and Gravy and Chicken Fried Steak (Stinson)
Orange Cocoa Cake (Fink/Marxer, Sandy Cash)
Vegetables of Love (Flint Westrock)
Cornbread and Butterbeans (Hushpuppies, Wiyos, Carolina Chocolate Drops)
Beefsteak When I’m Hungry (Toby Walker)
Banana Man (Bergmann Brothers)
Seven Pies (Still on the Hill
Dance in the Kitchen (Tom Paxton)
Buttermilk Pie (Chris Stuart)
Instrumentals:
Give Me Cornbread When I’m Hungry ( John Fahey)
Alphabet Soup (David Grier)
Porkchops and Applesauce (David Grier)
Smith’s Red Apple Rag (Skip Gorman)
Cuttin’ the Cornbread (Ralph Stanley)
King Corn (Greg Brown)
plus there are some bluegrass covers of Cheeseburger in Paradise out there…..

ok, gotta stop and go make dinner!  Looking forward to your show with bated breath and rumblin’ stomach.

Cream Corn - Pete Seeger (maybe the Weavers)

Come On In My Kitchen - many versions, my current favorite is Crooked Still’s

maybe something from Barbecue Bob or Catfish Keith (both blues) would be appropriate?

couple of great songs off of Lyle Lovett’s I Love Everybody talk about food prominently plus his song Church

Your Biscuits are Big Enough For Me - Blind Blake (OK, this one isn’t about food REALLY…  haha)

Texas Cookin - Guy Clark

Wow!  Thanks all…looking forward to using your recommendations!

Jennifer

and of course…...

Avocado (Small Potatoes)

Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia - Jimmie Rodgers (but there’s lots of versions)

No Love Today - Chris Smither (prominent character in song is fruit salesman, lots of food references throughout)

Ol’ Cook Pot - the Duhks (off Migrations—good tune)
Mighty Sweet Watermelon - Greg Brown (Evening Call - might be a bit too produced depending on your show and when it is)
Jambalaya - Hank (but lots of versions)
A Glazele Yash (A Glass of Wine) - Nikitov (off Vanderlust, sung in Yiddish)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - lots, but I think there’s a copy of Backwater Blues from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee in the library that has a great version

Thank all of you for your suggestions…I truly enjoyed putting this show together…but now it’s 11 PM, and I’m hungry…can’t think of a reason why…

Definitely Vegetables of Love (Flint Westrock)... try get this song…it really nice…hope this can help