List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama
This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama:
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, "The Old Iron Hills"
- John Hiatt, "Train to Birmingham"
- Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
- Richard Farina, "Birmingham Sunday", recorded by Joan Baez
- Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves, "Birmingham, Alabama"
- Blackhawk, "Postmarked Birmingham"
- Bruce Cockburn, "Birmingham Shadows"
- Charlie Daniels Band, "Birmingham Bus Station"
- Ani DiFranco, "Hello Birmingham"
- Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce"
- Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham"
- Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown"
- Emmylou Harris, "Boulder to Birmingham"
- Erskine Hawkins, "Tuxedo Junction"
- Charlie Johnson, "Birmingham Black Bottom"
- Merline Johnson, "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine"
- Tracy Lawrence, "Paint Me a Birmingham"
- Lead Belly, "Birmingham Jail"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
- Amanda Marshall, "Birmingham"
- John Mellencamp, "When Jesus Left Birmingham"
- Robert Moore, "Sweet Birmingham"
- The Mountain Goats, "Notifier Birmingham"
- David Lee Murphy, "Breakfast in Birmingham"
- Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
- Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam"
- Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
- Josh Rouse, "Sparrows over Birmingham"
- Trixie Smith, "Mining Camp Blues"
- Ethel Waters, "Birmingham Bertha"
- Keith Whitley, "Birmingham Turnaround"
- Jabo Williams, "Pratt City Blues"
- Edith Wilson, Fats Waller "Birmingham Blues"
- Shovels & Rope, "Birmingham"
- The Charlie Daniels Band, "Birmingham Blues"
Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:
- Chuck Berry, "Promised Land"
- Bruce Hornsby, "Jacob's Ladder"
- Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
- Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, "Old Iron Hills"
- Bob Seger, "Hey Hey Hey Hey"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
- Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone"
- Tom Waits, "Gun Street Girl"
- Tori Amos, "Playboy Mommy"
- Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
- Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
- Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama"
- Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
- Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam, "Black Betty"
- The Rolling Stones, "Rip This Joint"
- Talking Heads, "Cities"
- Sean Hayes, "Alabama Chicken"
- The Steeldrivers, "If It Hadn't Been For Love"
- Jerry Reed, "Guitar Man"
- Sheryl Crow, "Run Baby Run"
- Blackhawk, "Postmarked, Birmingham"
- Riley Green, “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”