anti-Tennessee music
July 17, 2012 10:41 AM Subscribe
Looking for songs that talk about or portray Tennessee the state (preferably), or it's cities in a not kind light.
The request is not based on anti-Tennessee sentiment, but for a larger project.
Already got:
Steve Earle "Tennessee Blues"
Robbie Fulks "Fuck this Town"
John Hartford "Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's Anymore"
Larry Cordle "Murder on Music Row"
and mentions in John Prine "Crazy as a Loon" and Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn
The request is not based on anti-Tennessee sentiment, but for a larger project.
Already got:
Steve Earle "Tennessee Blues"
Robbie Fulks "Fuck this Town"
John Hartford "Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's Anymore"
Larry Cordle "Murder on Music Row"
and mentions in John Prine "Crazy as a Loon" and Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn
"Tennessee" by Arrested Development? Particularly the bit about "climbed the trees my forefathers hung from" ...
posted by jbickers at 10:58 AM on July 17, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by jbickers at 10:58 AM on July 17, 2012 [4 favorites]
Indigo Girls "Nashville"
posted by hydropsyche at 10:58 AM on July 17, 2012
posted by hydropsyche at 10:58 AM on July 17, 2012
Well, there was a time when Bob Dylan was Stuck Outside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.
I'm not sure that this song says anything negative about TN though, mostly just a play on words.
posted by kensington314 at 11:06 AM on July 17, 2012
I'm not sure that this song says anything negative about TN though, mostly just a play on words.
posted by kensington314 at 11:06 AM on July 17, 2012
"Motel in Memphis" by Old Crow Medicine Show is about MLK's assasination and directly mentions the Crump political machine and lynchings in Memphis.
posted by teleri025 at 11:53 AM on July 17, 2012
posted by teleri025 at 11:53 AM on July 17, 2012
Greetings from Nashville, Jason & The Scorchers. At least a bit negative.
posted by Cocodrillo at 11:59 AM on July 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Cocodrillo at 11:59 AM on July 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train - Uncle Dave Macon (based on a true incident from 1930 regarding government corruption and dodgy bond issues.)
posted by scruss at 12:44 PM on July 17, 2012
posted by scruss at 12:44 PM on July 17, 2012
There's Tennessee, by the Manic Street Preachers (bearing in mind that they'd probably never been to Tennessee at the time they wrote it).
posted by Infinite Jest at 1:37 PM on July 17, 2012
posted by Infinite Jest at 1:37 PM on July 17, 2012
Sequestered in Memphis by The Hold Steady
It Gets Worst At Night - Lucero
Look into Lucero in general.
posted by syncope at 2:25 PM on July 17, 2012
It Gets Worst At Night - Lucero
Look into Lucero in general.
posted by syncope at 2:25 PM on July 17, 2012
"Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle? I guess more about dangers of Moonshinin' and growing pot, but... at least its in Tennessee
"Never Going Back to Memphis" by Shemekia Copeland ---which I've never heard but there it is. Actually you could probably use this list as reference and see if any fit your bill
1000+ Songs about Memphis (or that mention Memphis)
posted by Quincy at 4:01 PM on July 17, 2012
"Never Going Back to Memphis" by Shemekia Copeland ---which I've never heard but there it is. Actually you could probably use this list as reference and see if any fit your bill
1000+ Songs about Memphis (or that mention Memphis)
posted by Quincy at 4:01 PM on July 17, 2012
Gatlinburg gets a cameo in "Boy Named Sue" as the place where Sue meets his dad.
posted by momus_window at 4:50 PM on July 17, 2012
posted by momus_window at 4:50 PM on July 17, 2012
Billy C. Wirtz's "the Tennesee Waffle House Fire" is a Red Sovine-style gem, but you can't probably find it.
posted by spitbull at 6:31 PM on July 17, 2012
posted by spitbull at 6:31 PM on July 17, 2012
Knoxville Girl is a pretty brutal old song.
posted by heigh-hothederryo at 6:59 PM on July 17, 2012
posted by heigh-hothederryo at 6:59 PM on July 17, 2012
Robbie Fulks, "Fuck This Town" [Nashville]
Cross Canadian Ragweed, "Leaving Tennessee" ("Fuck you and fuck Nashville/I'm leaving' Tennessee")
Houston Marchman, "Vietnashville"
posted by kirkaracha at 8:50 PM on July 17, 2012
Cross Canadian Ragweed, "Leaving Tennessee" ("Fuck you and fuck Nashville/I'm leaving' Tennessee")
Houston Marchman, "Vietnashville"
posted by kirkaracha at 8:50 PM on July 17, 2012
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posted by edgeways at 10:47 AM on July 17, 2012