List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama

This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama:

• Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, "The Old Iron Hills"
• John Hiatt, "Train to Birmingham"
• Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
• Richard Farina, "Birmingham Sunday", recorded by Joan Baez
• Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves, "Birmingham, Alabama"
• Blackhawk, "Postmarked Birmingham"
• Bruce Cockburn, "Birmingham Shadows" (1995)
• Charlie Daniels Band, "Birmingham Bus Station" (1994)
• Ani DiFranco, "Hello Birmingham"^[1]
• Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce" (1946)
• Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham" (2002)
• Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown" (1926)
• Emmylou Harris, "Boulder to Birmingham"
• Erskine Hawkins, "Tuxedo Junction"
• Charlie Johnson, "Birmingham Black Bottom" (1927)
• Merline Johnson, "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine" (1937)
• Tracy Lawrence, "Paint Me a Birmingham" (2004)
• Lead Belly, "Birmingham Jail"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama" (1974)
• Amanda Marshall, "Birmingham"
• John Mellencamp, "When Jesus Left Birmingham" (1993)
• Robert Moore, "Sweet Birmingham" (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
• The Mountain Goats, "Notifier Birmingham" (1995)
• David Lee Murphy, "Breakfast in Birmingham"
• Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
• Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam" (1965)
• Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
• Josh Rouse, "Sparrows over Birmingham"
• Trixie Smith, "Mining Camp Blues" (1925)
• Telluride, "Birmingham Tonight"
• Ethel Waters, "Birmingham Bertha" (1929) (from On with the Show!)
• Keith Whitley, "Birmingham Turnaround"
• Jabo Williams, "Pratt City Blues" (1932)
• Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "Birmingham Blues" (1921)
• Shovels & Rope, "Birmingham" (2012)
• The Charlie Daniels Band, "Birmingham Blues" (1997)

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

• Chuck Berry, "Promised Land" (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
• Bruce Hornsby, "Jacob's Ladder" (first recorded by Huey Lewis and the News, (1987)
• Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
• Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, "Old Iron Hills" (2009)
• Bob Seger, "Hey Hey Hey Hey"(Going back to Birmingham)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" (1983)
• Tom Waits, "Gun Street Girl" (1985)
• Tori Amos, "Playboy Mommy" (1998)
• Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
• Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
• Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama" (1934)
• Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
• Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam, "Black Betty"
• The Rolling Stones, "Rip This Joint" (1972)
• Talking Heads, "Cities" (1979)
• Sean Hayes, "Alabama Chicken" (2003)
• The Steeldrivers, "If It Hadn't Been For Love" (2008)
• Jerry Reed, "Guitar Man" (1967)
• Sheryl Crow, "Run Baby Run" (1993)
• Blackhawk, "Postmarked, Birmingham"

References

1. "Song lyrics". danah.org.

• "Directory of African-Appalachian musicians" (March 22, 2004) Black Music Research Journal