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List Of Songs About Birmingham, Alabama
This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama: * "Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves * "Birmingham Bertha" by Ethel Waters (1929) (from ''On with the Show!'') * "Birmingham Black Bottom" by Charlie Johnson (1927) * "Birmingham Blues" by Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) (1921) * "Birmingham Blues" by The Charlie Daniels Band (1997) * "Birmingham Bounce" by Tommy Dorsey (1946) * "Birmingham Breakdown" by Duke Ellington (1926) * "Birmingham Bus Station" by Charlie Daniels Band (1994) * "Birmingham Daddy" by Gene Autry * " Birmingham Jail" by Lead Belly * "Birmingham Shadows" by Bruce Cockburn (1995) * "Birmingham Sunday" by Richard Farina, recorded by Joan Baez * "Birmingham Turnaround" by Keith Whitley * "Birmingham" by Amanda Marshall * "Birmingham" by Drive-By Truckers (2002) * "Birmingham" by Randy Newman * "Birmingham" by Shovels & Rope (2012) * "Boulder to Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris * "Breakfast in Birmingham" by Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% from the 2020 Census, making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of the nation. Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post- Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, ''Joan Baez'', ''Joan Baez, Vol. 2'' and ''Joan Baez in Concert'', all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers' work, having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paint Me A Birmingham
"Paint Me a Birmingham" is a song written by Buck Moore and Gary Duffy. It was concurrently released by American country music artists Ken Mellons and Tracy Lawrence, whose versions entered the country charts within one week of each other. Lawrence's was the more successful of the two, reaching #4 in May 2004 and becoming his first Top 5 country hit since "Lessons Learned" in April 2000. Content The narrator/singer describes an encounter with an artist who is painting ocean scenes. The singer asks the painter to paint a picture of the life the man had planned, or imagined, before losing the woman he loved. Specifically, he describes the house, a Birmingham-style house, and a scene where he and his love are together again. The song is in the key of G-flat major, modulating up to A-flat major at the last chorus, with a vocal range from A3 to D5. Music video The music video was filmed live in concert. Chart positions Ken Mellons Tracy Lawrence Year-end charts Parodies On his 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the plural moniker. Although he remains the core member of the band, he has worked with a variety of collaborators over time, including bassist and vocalist Peter Hughes (musician), Peter Hughes, drummer Jon Wurster, multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, singer-songwriter Franklin Bruno, bassist and vocalist Rachel Ware, singer-songwriter/Record producer, producer John Vanderslice, guitarist Kaki King, and multi-instrumentalist St. Vincent (musician), Annie Clark. Throughout the 1990s, the Mountain Goats were known for producing Lo-fi music, low-fidelity home recordings (most notably, on a cassette deck boombox) and releasing recordings in Compact Cassette, cassette or 7-inch single, vinyl 7-inch formats. Since 2002, the Mountain Goats have ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trixie Smith
Trixie is a shortened form of the given names Beatrix or Beatrice (given name), Beatrice or Patricia or adopted as a nickname or used as a given name. Trixie may refer to: People * Trixie Friganza (1870–1955), American vaudeville performer and stage and silent film actress * Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes (born 1927), Australian-born British politician, dentist and peeress * Trixie Maristela (born 1985), Filipino transgender actress * Trixie Mattel (born 1989), American drag queen and winner of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' season 3 * Trixie Minx (born 1981), American burlesque dancer * Trixi Schuba (born 1951), Austrian figure skater * Trixie Smith (1895–1943), African American blues singer, vaudeville entertainer and actress * Trixie Tagg, Australian soccer player and coach * Trixie Whitley (born 1987), Belgian American multi-instrumentalist * Beatrix Pospíšilová Čelková, Beatrix 'Trixi' Pospíšilová Čelková (1925-1997), Slovak World War II era spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merline Johnson
Merline Johnson (born c. 1912 or 1918, date of death unknown) was an American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as The Yas Yas Girl. "Yas yas" was a euphemism for buttocks in hokum blues songs such as Blind Boy Fuller's "Get Yer Yas Yas Out" and James "Stump" Johnson's " The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas". Little is known of her life. It is generally believed that she was born in Mississippi, though the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest she may have been born Merline Baker in Callaway County, Missouri. She was the aunt of singer LaVern Baker. Johnson first recorded in Chicago in 1937. One early song was "Sold It to the Devil". Over the next four years she recorded over 90 songs, including "Don't You Make Me High", "I'd Rather Be Drunk", and "Love with a Feeling". She recorded a few risqué songs. Her speciality was a variety of juke joint blues, with songs such as "Drinking My Blues Away" and "I Just Keep on Drinking", delivered in a tough, unlovable voice. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ani DiFranco
Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco (; born September 23, 1970) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influences from punk, funk, hip hop and jazz. She has released all her albums on her own record label, Righteous Babe. DiFranco supports many social and political movements by performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums and speaking at rallies. Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has backed grassroots cultural and political organizations supporting causes including abortion rights and LGBT visibility. She counts American folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger among her mentors. DiFranco released a memoir, ''No Walls and the Recurring Dream'', on May 7, 2019, via Viking Books and made The New York Times Best Seller list. Early life and education DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, on September 23, 1970, the daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirates Of The Mississippi
Pirates of the Mississippi were an American country music band founded in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee. The original members were Bill McCorvey (lead vocals, guitar), Rich Alves (lead guitar, background vocals), Jimmy Lowe (drums), Pat Severs (steel guitar, Dobro), and Dean Townson (bass guitar, background vocals). Severs quit in 1994 and was briefly replaced with Greg Trostle. The band recorded for Capitol Records, Liberty Records, and Giant Records between 1990 and 1995. They also charted nine singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, the most successful being " Feed Jake", which went to number 15 in 1991. After disbanding in 1996, both Alves and McCorvey went on to write songs for other artists. In 2006, the two reunited under the Pirates of the Mississippi name, releasing an additional album titled ''Heaven and a Dixie Night'' before disbanding again. Pirates of the Mississippi are known for a country rock sound, and they received significant media attention for so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lee Murphy
David Lee Murphy (born January 7, 1959) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for his #1 country hits " Dust on the Bottle" and " Everything's Gonna Be Alright", as well as the hit songs " Party Crowd", "Out with a Bang", " Every Time I Get Around You", " The Road You Leave Behind", and "Loco". He has released five solo studio albums: ''Out with a Bang'' (1994), '' Gettin' Out the Good Stuff'' (1996), '' We Can't All Be Angels'' (1997), '' Tryin' to Get There'' (2004), and ''No Zip Code'' (2018). His songs "Just Once" and "We Can't All Be Angels" appeared on the soundtracks of the films ''8 Seconds'' (1994) and '' Black Dog'' (1998), respectively. Murphy took a hiatus from recording in 2004, and has co-written several singles for other artists, including the hits "Living in Fast Forward" for Kenny Chesney, "Anywhere With You" for Jake Owen, "Big Green Tractor" for Jason Aldean, and "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not" for Thompson Square. On April 6, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1992 and an induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2018, she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Harris' work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists. Biography Early years Harris is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Rutland Harris (1921–1993), was a Marine Corps officer, and her mother, Eugenia (1921–2014), was a wartime military wife. Her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shovels & Rope
Shovels & Rope are an American folk duo from Charleston, South Carolina composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels & Rope blends traditional folk, rock and roll and country rock. The band's sixth album ''Manticore'' released February 18, 2022 on Dualtone Records. History Beginnings Cary Ann Hearst was born in Mississippi in 1979 and raised in Nashville from 1987 until she attended the College of Charleston in 1997. During school she began performing music as a solo artist in local bars and venues. After graduating she toured, recorded and performed with various groups including Caravan and Borrowed Angels. Michael Trent was born in Houston, grew up in Denver, and eventually relocated to Charleston. Hearst saw Trent performing with his band The Films in 2002 and they began touring with various artists including Jump, Little Children. Hearst released her first solo album ''Dust and Bones'' in 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern American English, Southern-accented singing style, early Americana (music), Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. His best-known songs as a recording artist are "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995) with Lyle Lovett, while other artists have enjoyed more success with cover versions of his "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1966), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968) and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, Newman began his songwriting career at the age of 17, penning hits for acts such as the Fleetwoods, Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. In 1968, he made his formal debut as a solo artist with the album ''Randy Newman (album), Randy Newman'', produced by Lenny Waro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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