Folk Songs About Food

Thanks to Jim Rigby for many of these.

Zoe Mulford\ Stock\ Roadside Saints\ Azalea City

[hot dogs]
Hot Dog Stand \ JON WILCOX \ Close to Home \ Sierra Brie
Pickle in the Middle \ LOUIS PRIMA \ Louis Prima \ Columbia River
A Dime Short of a Hotdog \ OSCAR BROWN JR \ Movin' on \ Atlantic
Happy on the Griddle \ PETER IVERS \ Nirvana Peter \ Warner Bros

[baked beans]
Beans & Weenies \ TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA \ My World \ Trout
Beans & Cornbread \ LOUIS JORDAN & TYPANY 5 \ 1947-49 \ jsp
Beans & Crawdads \ LATE BLOOMERS \ Oasis Acoustic v 26 \ Oasis
Beans Taste Fuine \ SHEL SILVERSTEIN \ Inside Shel \ 

[potatoes]
Faith Petric\ Idaho Spud\ When Did We Have Sauerkraut?\ Center
Cheryl Wheeler -- "Potato" -- the virtues of potatoes to the tune of "The
Mexican Hat Dance" on the "Sylvia Hotel" CD
Jamie Anderson / Potato Chips / Listen

[meat balls]
Christine Lavin and friends\ One Meat Ball - entire album of food songs
Josh White\ One Meat Ball\ Free and Equal Blues\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Garrison Keillor\ Meatballs\ The Family Radio

Kate Borkowski\ A Good Piece of Pie\ Seeing in the Dark\ Self
David Holt\ Slowfood\ Let It Slide\ High Windy
Robert Earl Keen / Farm Fresh Onions
Guy Clark / Home Grown Tomatoes
Steve Goodman / Barnyard Dance
Steve Goodman / Chicken Cordon Blues
Greg Brown / Canned Goods
Greg Brown / Smell of Coffee

Christine Lavin -- "Cold Pizza For Breakfast"

Christine also does the a capella "Taco Bell Canon" a reworking of the
Pachelbel original if it were being sung by a customer of a Mexican
restaurant.  It's on "The Runaway Christmas Tree" CD

Full Frontal Folk and Diane Taraz have recorded the traditional Irish song
"Colcannon" about an Irish specialty.

Trout Fishing in America has "Why I Pack My Lunch" on their recent "It's a
Puzzle" CD. Great song about the school lunch program.

Jack Williams -- Mama Lou -- about his mother's cooking on "Across The
Winterline" and a live version on "Live and In Good Company"

Bill Staines -- "Buffy's Quality Cafe" -- about a Fort Worth diner on his
"Going To The West" CD.

Jane Eamon -- "Edible Love Song" -- on her "Blue Madonna" CD

Tamarack -- "Maple Syrup Time" - on their "Leaving Inveraden" CD

Arrogant Worms -- "I am Cow" from the Dirt CD and "Carrot Juice Is Murder"
from their "Live Bait" CD

Tony Bird -- "Mango Time" -- African song about the singer's favorite fruit
on the 20th anniversary Philo sampler CD

Joe Hickerson -- "Good Fish Chowder" -- on his Folk-Legacy CD "With A
Gathering of Friends"  Anne Dodson has also recorded this.

"Mama Lou" - Jack Williams - Across the Winterline

Jamie Anderson / A Little Chocolate / A Promise of Light
Steve James & Del Rey\ Greasy Greens\ Twins\ Hobemian

Also, see Angela Page's food show setlist.

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