No one really needs any help gearing up for the beautiful gluttony of the holiday season, but in the spirit of gorging oneself on cookies, pie, turkey, ham, and all manner of seasonal treats, here are nine bluegrass songs to get your stomach growling.
Flatt & Scruggs — âHot Corn, Cold CornâÂ
Hot corn goes with your meal. Cold corn makes your meal (and your loud relatives) bearable. If the chickens all a-runninâ and the toenails a flyinâ, this is your best bet.
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder — âPig in a Penâ
Bake them biscuits! Raise a barrel of sorghum! Weâre Alabamy-bound!
Reno & Smiley — âDill Pickle Ragâ
Have a pickle with your leftover turkey sandwich!
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley — âKeep My Skillet Good and Greasyâ
The importance of proper cast-iron care cannot be overstated. Do not use soap or any cleaning agents (scrub with salt on stubborn grime when needed), oil after rinsing and washing in warm water, and make sure to re-season regularly.
Lost and Found — âLeftover Biscuitsâ
Sure, this describes a pretty misogynistic scenario in which the kitchen is dirty because the singerâs wife left him, but maybe also it can just be the day after Christmas when no one wants to even acknowledge the tower of dishes in the sink and everyoneâs content to eat cold ham on day-old rolls? Maybe?
Jim & Jesse — âYâall Come!â
Eating everything from soup to hay! HAY!?
Bruce Molsky — âShove the Pigâs Foot a Little Bit Further into the Fireâ
No one wants an underdone pigâs foot.
David Grier — âAngeline the Bakerâ
Angeline, could you bake me up some cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip cookies, yeasty rolls, and a pie or three, a fruitcake, a pumpkin roll âŚ
The Nashville Bluegrass Band — âSoppinâ the Gravyâ
A clean plate does not count as a truly clean plate, until youâve taken whatever bread you have on hand and have completely sopped up all that gravy. Soppinâ veterans will then move to the gravy pan and sop up all of that, too. Donât think about your arteries. Itâs the holidays!
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