Missing from the list: "Are you from Dixie?", "T for Texas", "Bonnie Blue", "Mountain Dew", Doc Watson, Bellamy Bros, and others.
Feel Free to add to or correct the list.
Y'all Come
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My vote for the top song has to be Mrs. Reb's favorite - Bonnie Blue Flag. However, I believe Maryland, My Maryland deserves at least an honorable mention.
"Rank Strangers" by Stanley Brothers.... should be something from Flatt and Scruggs in there too.
Four of the top five, racialist anthems trashing the South. Three of which, including #1 about lynching I never heard of.
Typical Multicultural garbage.
Missing perhaps the single greatest southern song ever recorded, performed, or even possible.
Paul Robson
SHowboat, 1936
"Let me go ´way from this Mississippi.
Let me go ´way from the white man boss.
Show me that stream, called the river Jordan.
That’s the old stream that I long to cross.
Old Man River,
that Old Man River,
he must know something
but he don’t say nothing.
He just keeps rolling.
He keeps on rolling along.
He don’t plant tatoes.
He don’t plant cotton.
And them that plants them
is soon forgotten.
But Old Man River,
he just keeps rolling along.
You and me,
we sweat and strained.
Body all achening, racked with pain.
Tote that barge
and lift that bail.
Get a little drunk then we’ll land in jail.
I get weary
And sick of trying.
I’m tired of living
and scared of dying,
but Old Man River,
he just keeps rolling along".
I'd love to find an MP3 of that, it sends a chill up my spine every time.
"ZIP A DEE DOO DAH", "MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA" [Flame (no pun intended)away].
Where is Jine the Cavalry?
Love Rocky Top. My all time favorite.
Song of the South by Alabama.
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Nice list of songs, but I had to laugh at number 22, "Love Shack" by The B-52's.
How in the world is that a southern song?
Bellamy Brothers, "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie"
I love their harmonies; swamp-rock heirs to the Louvin Brothers
Don Williams, "Good Ole Boys Like Me"
Sawyer Brown, "Another Side"
Marty Robbins, "Five Brothers"
Charlie Daniels Band, "Legend of the Wooley Swamp"
Want rap? Bellamy Brothers "Country Rap"
"We got yer fatback, and that's a fact!"
I'm a good ol' rebel.
Anything by Steve Earle. (So shoot me ...)
Two songs I'd add:
"Can't You See," Marshall Tucker Band -- maybe my favorite Southern rock song of all time (and yes, that includes "Free Bird," sacreligious as that may be). It's just an amazing song.
And as for Emmylou Harris, I'd switch out "Evangeline" with "Boulder to Birmingham," the song she wrote about Gram Parsons.
Other than that, a little too much rap and not enough Southern rock, but I wouldn't expect anything less from Access Atlanta/the AJC, a paper that's done more than its part to make Atlanta into the Detroit of the South (but with better weather).
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One of my favorite movies was the John Phillip Sousa Story when they were going to cancel his show in the south. The band came marching into town. Sousa announced the show with ever other song being Dixie. The southerns went wild.
"Missing from the list: "Are you from Dixie?", "T for Texas", "Bonnie Blue", "Mountain Dew", Doc Watson, Bellamy Bros, and others."
I do believe that "Blue Yodel #1" - 35th on the list - is "T for Texas."
Correct me if I'm wrong!
Salty Dog - Morris Brothers (Flatt & Scruggs version)
Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bluegrass Rules - Ricky Skaggs
Dooley - The Dillards
Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Wild Eyed Southern Boys - 38 Special
Flirtin With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
Fox On The Run - T Hazzard
The Essential Earl Scruggs - all 40 songs