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in particular, songs that mention kentucky in the lyrics, but not in the title, although it's OK if they do.

― dan_stuckey, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

already got "blue moon of kentucky," randy newman's "my old kentucky home," pavement's "kentucky cocktail" and "man of constant sorrow" (although if you can recommend a version more definitive than the soggy bottom boys'-- and i'm sure there is one-- bring it.)

― dan_stuckey, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kentucky Waltz. The version I know is off of "16 Gems", by Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, a collection of very early (and very good) recordings.

We were waltzing that night in Kentucky
Beneath the beautiful harvest moon
And I was the boy who was lucky
'Though it all ended too soon...

re: man of constant sorrow: theres a very nice version of it on Dylan's "The Bootleg Series vol. 1". (although I don't remember any mention of Kentucky in it)

― daniel, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond as well as Deep Purple.Didn't Elvis have a song called Kentucky Rain?

― Damian, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Tennesee" by Silver Jews.

"Come with me, leave Kentucky, back to Tennessee, because you're the only ten I see, you're the only ten I see."

― Mark, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Moon Over Kentucky" by Sparks. On their second album.

― Oliver Kneale, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ralph atanley does the definitve man of constant sorrow.

― anthony, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Paradise" by John Prine

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a song called "Nelly Gray", the first two lines of which are "There's a low green valley/On the old Kentucky shore". Can't remember who recorded it, sorry.

Gorky's did a song called 'Heart of Kentucky' on their Amber Gambler EP

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Kentucky Propeller Factory" by Tranquil. It's an instrumental though. "Ohio River Boat Song" by Will Oldham under the Palace Music guise is all about living on the Ohio here in Louisville.

― Bofus, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HEART OF KENTUCKY by Gorkys Zygotic Monkey is URGENT! KEY! AND ALSO THE DOOR WHICH CONTAINS THE LOCK TO THE KEY!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeff, you bitch.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

"Kentucky Cocktail" by Pavement

― Charles McCain, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

To answer Damian's question about 14 months later, yes Elvis did do a song called 'Kentucky Rain'. And it's a mighty fine song, too.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

great revival job, chaz.

'send in the clouds' by the silver jews.

"I knew a puppy...who walked from kentucky...he made it to east virginia by dawn...he had seventeen ideas in his head."

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"You Be Illin'," Run-DMC:

"One day when I was chillin' in Kentucky Fried Chicken..."

"Night of the Living Rednecks," Dead Kennedys also has a KFC reference, right before dude gets doused by Portland kids.

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Freakwater - "Kentucky House" - great song about luring someone back into the Kentucky way of life

― jillian (jillian), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dead Flowers" - I really like the Townes Van Zandt version at the end of Big Lebowski. "Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day"

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Kentucky Buttneck" by Guido Gonzalez.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I made that up just now.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Kentucky in the Title:

The Kinks -- Kentucky Moon
Lee Perry -- Kentucky Skank
Louvin Brothers -- Kentucky
Kitty Wells -- Kentucky in the Morning
Glen Campbell -- Kentucky Means Paradise
Doc Watson and David Grisman -- Kentucky Waltz
Emmylou Harris -- Blue Kentucky Girl
Sally -- Kentucky Fried Motherfucker

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly, as a born-and-raised Kentuckian, the only one I can come up with right now (that hasn't already been mentioned) is...

"push me up against the wall/young Kentucky girl in a pushup bra" from the Chili Peppers song, uh, whatever it was called.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, in this one Tribe Called Quest song, Phife goes...

"Arizona, Villanova, aw, aw, KENTUCKY/
who's the next MC steppin' up to try and bust me"

...on Beats, Rhymes, and Life.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"Me & Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, others:

From the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Standing right beside me Lord in everything I done
Bobby's body kept me from the cold
Then somewhere near Saulito, Lord I let her slip her away
Looking for that home I hope she'll find
And I'll trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body close to mine

Any tape is better with Gorky's Heart of "Kan"-tucky.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Kentucky in the Lyrics:

Arlo Guthrie -- City of New Orleans - "All on a southbound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kentucky, rolls past horses, farms and fields".

Tom Waits -- Jitterbug Boy - "I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field, Seen the Kentucky Derby too".

The Breeders -- Opener - "And in a kitchen in Kentucky -
She thinks she's Peter Pan".

Everly Brothers -- Bowling Green - "Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold - It warms the body, & I know it touches the soul Bluegrass is fine - Kentucky owns my mind".

Rolling Stones -- Dead Flowers - "Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink cadillac - Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day".

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

So, is Kentucky, like, worthy?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Kentucky is worthy if only for the bourbon.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Kentucky is worthy for bourbon, AND SO MUCH MORE!

For starters, Ale-8-one.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

gordon lightfoot did 'me and bobby mcgee' too and I think kris kristofferson wrote it.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Kentucky is worthy for bourbon, AND SO MUCH MORE!

he he he...whenever I'm outside of Kentucky, and I tell someone that's where I'm from, 99.9% of the time, this is how it goes:

"Yeah, I'm from Kentucky..."
"Dude, DANK BUDS grow in Kentucky!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

EXACTLY!

― hstencil, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Dank buds of Kentucky please keep a-reekin'

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

The word "Kentucky" > 10% of the lyrics of "Kentucky Fried Flow" by Armand Van Helden.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I know this thread is probably pretty much dead, but I had to get this one in:
Nightmare Before Christmas - Jack's Lament
"To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky"
Dolly Parton - Kentucky Gambler (also good for the songs about gambling thread)
Loretta Lynn - Blue Kentucky Girl
Tons of songs by The Nappy Roots
hmm...running low...
Uncle Tupelo - Coalminers

I'll leave it at that.

― AlienBoy (AlienBoy), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Man Of Constant Sorrow"

there must be some Mountain Goats lyric with kentucky in somewhere as well..

― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"My Old Kentucky Home" - written by Stephen Foster. No doubt numerous versions available, but one readily available one might be 3 Dog Night's on the '7 Seperate Fools' platter.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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