This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama:

  • "Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves
  • "Birmingham Bertha" written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, sung by Ethel Waters (1929) (from On with the Show!)
  • "Am I Blue?" written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, sung 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 David Lee Murphy
  • "Down and Out in Birmingham" by Pirates of the Mississippi
  • "Hello Birmingham" by Ani DiFranco
  • "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine" by Merline Johnson (1937)
  • "Mining Camp Blues" by Trixie Smith (1925)
  • "Notifier Birmingham" by The Mountain Goats (1995)
  • "Paint Me a Birmingham" by Tracy Lawrence (2004)
  • "Postmarked Birmingham" by Blackhawk
  • "Pratt City Blues" by Jabo Williams (1932)
  • "Sparrows over Birmingham" by Josh Rouse
  • "Sweet Birmingham" by Robert Moore (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
  • "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)
  • "Talking Birmingham Jam" by Phil Ochs (1965)
  • "The Old Iron Hills" by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
  • "Train to Birmingham" by John Hiatt
  • "Tuxedo Junction" by Erskine Hawkins
  • "When Jesus Left Birmingham" by John Mellencamp (1993)

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

  • "Alabama Chicken" by Sean Hayes (2003)
  • “Birmingham” by Zach Bryan (2020)
  • "Black Betty" by Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam
  • "Cities" by Talking Heads (1979)
  • "Gun Street Girl" by Tom Waits (1985)
  • "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going back to Birmingham)" by Bob Seger
  • "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" by Little Richard
  • "I Can't Love You Anymore" by Lyle Lovett
  • “I Wish Grandpas Never Died” by Riley Green (2019)
  • "If It Hadn't Been For Love" by The Steeldrivers (2008)
  • "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" by Bob Dylan (2020)
  • "Jacob's Ladder" by Bruce Hornsby (first recorded by Huey Lewis and the News) (1987)
  • "Maribel" by Andy Offutt Irwin
  • "Old Iron Hills" by Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster (2009)
  • "One of These Days" by Drive-By Truckers
  • "Playboy Mommy" by Tori Amos (1998)
  • "Postmarked, Birmingham" by Blackhawk
  • "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
  • "Rip This Joint" by The Rolling Stones (1972)
  • "Run Baby Run" by Sheryl Crow (1993)
  • "Southern Hospitality" by Trinity the Tuck (2022)
  • "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish (1934)
  • "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • "Swordfishtrombone" by Tom Waits (1983)
  • "Black Betty" by Ram Jam

References

  • "Directory of African-Appalachian musicians" (March 22, 2004) Black Music Research Journal