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)