Kentucky Derby

A few racehorse songs for Derby Day:

  • Can’t Win, Can’t Place, Can’t Show
    • James Reams, Walter Hensley and the Barons of Bluegrass (Copper Creek)
  • Going to the Races
    • White House “White House” (Pinecastle)
    • Country Gentlemen “Play It Like It Is” (Rebel)
    • James King “Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey” (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • If Wishes Were Horses
    • Claire Lynch “Silver and Gold” (Rounder)
  • Kentucky Gold
    • The Reno Brothers “Kentucky Gold” (Webco)
    • Ronnie Reno and the Reno Tradition “In Concert” (Butler Music)
    • Dale Ann Bradley “Kentucky For Me” (Pinecastle)
  • Let An Old Racehorse Run
    • Del McCoury “It’s Just the Night” (McCoury Music)
  • Molly and TenBrooks
    • Bill Monroe “1936-1944” (and many other recordings)
  • New Camptown Races
    • Frank Wakefield “That was Now, This is Then” (Rosewood)
  • Riding the Danville Pike
    • Blue Highway “Still Climbing Mountains” (Rounder)
  • Run for the Roses
    • Bill Henry “Red Sky” (OMS Records)
  • Running Blood
    • Michael Martin Murphey “Buckaroo Bluegrass II:Riding Song” (Rural Rhythm)
  • Run, Secretariat Run
    • Dale Pyatt “Dale Pyatt” (no label)
  • Stewball
    • Country Gentlemen “Classic Country Gents Reunion” (Sugar Hill)
    • Hotmud Family “Meat and Potatoes and Stuff Like That” (Flying Fish)
  • Sunday Silence
    • Arthur Hancock “Sunday Silence” (Stone Productions)
    • Larry Rice “If I Only Knew” (Rebel)