Pickin’ and a GRINNIN’

DJ’s: Here’s a list of bluegrass songs that will make you (and your listening audience) smile. Can you think of others? Use our contact page and let me know.

• A Matter of Policy
  • Bluegrass Etc. “Traveling Band” (Tricopolis)
• Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
  • Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers “Rare Bird Alert” (Rounder)
• Baby
  • The Cleverlys “Blue” (Mountain Home)
• Bad Decisions
  • Don Schlitz (SINGLE/Englehart Music Group)
• Bacon in My Beans
  • Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers “For the Record” (Rebel)
• CHICKEN
  • The Greenbriar Boys “Best of the Vanguard Years” (Vanguard)
• Coon Dog Cemetary
  • Milan Miller “Timepiece” (Melton and Miller Music)
• Dead Dog on the Side of the Road
  • Billy and Terry Smith “Voices on the Mountain” (Red Clay)
• Don’t Leave Your Records in the Sun
  • John Hartford “Mark Twang” (Flying Fish)
• Fiddlestix Beer Song
  • DooDoo Wah “For Amusement Only” (no label)
• Five Pounds of Possum
  • The Possum Tapes (Tim White)
  • The VW Boys “Listen to the Music” (Mountain Roads)
• Good Old Electric Washing Machine
  • John Hartford “Me Oh My How the Time Does Fly: A John Harford Anthology” (Flying Fish)
• Hi De Diddle
  • Jimmy Martin “Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Disc 2” (Bear Family)
• How Far to Little Rock
  • The Stanley Brothers “16 Greatest Hits” (Gusto)
• How Many Biscuits Can You Eat
  • Stringbean “A Salute to Uncle Dave Macon” (Gusto)
• I Just Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore
  • LeRoy Mack “Smiles and Tears” (no label)
• If My Nose Was Runnin’ Money (I’d Blow It All On You)
  • The VW Boys “Listen to the Music” (Mountain Roads)
• I’m Keeping Your Poop (in a Jar)
  • Hayseed Dixie “A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love” (DTR)
• I’m My Own Grandpa
  • Lonzo and Oscar “Stars of the Grand Ole Opry” (First Generation)
• I’m Never Going Home Cause Mother’s Waiting
  • Paul Shelasky “Fiddle Crazy” (Lost Highway)
• Itchy Twitchy Spot
  • Run C&W “Into the Twangy-First Century” (MCA)
• I Want My Dog Back
  • The Spinney Brothers “No Borders” (Mountain Fever)
• Like My Dog
  • Darren Nicholson “Things Left Undone” (no label)
• Livin’ in a Coffee World
  • Tim Lovelace “Livin’ in a Coffee World” (Showtown)
• Lucy, Mousey and Bureau
  • Charlie Moore and Bill Napier “12 Variety Bluegrass Songs” (King)
• King Tut
  • Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers “Rare Bird Alert” (Rounder)
• Mississippi Squirrel Revival
  • LeRoy Mack “Scratchin’ My Beard” (no label)
• Mockingbird
  • Byron Berline “Berline, Crary and Hickman Live” (Sugar Hill)
• No Lawyers in Heaven
  • Charlie Sizemore “Heartache Looking for a Home” (Rounder)
• Orphan Chicken
  • The VW Boys “Pickin’ Chicken” (no label)
• Something to Brag About
  • Chris Roberts and Ashley Campbell (single/Englehart Music)
• That Godforsaken Hellhole I Call Home
  • The Austin Lounge Lizards “Paint Me on Velvet” (Sugar Hill)
• The Great Bicycle Wreck
  • Harold Morrison “Hoss He’s the Boss” (Decca)
  • The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band “Almanack” (no label)
• The Kind of Woman I Got
  • The Osborne Brothers “1956-1968 Disc 4” (Bear Family)
• The Guitar Song
  • Joe Mullins with Del McCoury “For the Record” (Mountain Home)
• The Preacher and the Bear
  • Jim Hurst (with Mac Wiseman) “Looking Glass” (no label)
• The Trucker and the UFO
  • Brush Arbor “Brush Arbor” (Capitol)
• Uncle Eef
  • The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band “Almanack” (no label)
• What’s Time to a Hog?
  • The Dillards “Tribute to the American Duck” (Elektra)
• When Your Phone Don’t Ring, It’ll Be Me
  • James King “Lonesome and Then Some” (Rebel)
• White Lightnin’
  • The Grascals “Country Classics with a Bluegrass Spin” (Cracker Barrel)
• Where There’s a Will
  • Gerald Smith “Where There’s a Will” (Quacker)
• Whoa Mule Whoa
  • The Dillards “Live Almost” (Elektra)
• Yardbird
  • Larry Cordle “Tales from East Kentucky” (MightyCord)
• You Got to Pray to the Lord When You See Those Flying Saucers
  • Dry Branch Fire Squad “Echoes of the Mountain” (Rounder)
• You Play Like Chet
  • Gerald Smith “Where There’s a Will” (Quacker)