Folk Songs About Drunk Driving

DUI - driving under the influence.

List compiled by Susan Forbes Hansen:
 
Mindy  Simmons: I Didn't Mean It, Don't Get It (A Fine Life in The Country)
James  McMurtry has one on one of his Columbia released albums.. It might 
be Down  Across the Delawre for the title but I am not sure  (Iceman)
Dorsey Dixon  of the Dixon Brothers: "Wreck on the Highway" 
Also recorded  by Roy Acuff, The Fairfield Four, Wayne Scott and maybe The 
Greenbriar Boys;  also on the first "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" set. It has 
been recorded under  various titles, including "I Didn't Hear Nobody Pray" and 
"Crash on the Highway"
Cary Swinney:  "Hair on the Windshield" 
Luke Liddy ­ "The Night His Reputation Lost its Shine" on Imperfection
The Austin Lounge Lizards: "The Car Hank Died In"
Kip Attaway:  "I'll Hold  The Bottle"
The Stanley  Brothers: "Drunken Driver" (also recorded by Ricky Skaggs on "Bluegrass  Rules")
Bob Franke's  latest song on that subject, Collateral Damage, is the most  
current...actually written for Freyda Epstein.  (although reports suggest 
that the driver who killed Freyda set out to kill himself by driving into an 
oncoming car, and hers was the one he "chose") 
Arlon Bennett: "Black Ice" (although this appears to be a new song and not 
on his recordings yet)

Songs about  the deleterious effects of alcohol, although not necessarily 
about drunk  driving:

Fred Eaglesmith with Lynn Miles: Drinking Too  Much (Lipstick  Lies & Gasoline)
Kitty Donohoe: The Cheater (Farmer in  Florida), Roheen  001  
Norman Blake: Whiskey Deaf and Whiskey  Blind (Far  way, Down on A Georgia Farm)
Anne Hills: Your  New  Companion  (Bittersweet  Street),  Redwing 5402  
Rhonda  Vincent: Driving Nails in My Coffin (The Storm Still  Rages), Rounder 
Loudon Wainwright III: White Winos (Last Man on  Earth), Red House 158
Fred Eaglesmith: Alcohol & Pills (Lipstick  Lies & Gasoline), Razor & Tie 
Rory Block: Loving Whiskey

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann