music for bbq party

Zydeco and blues are my choices.

How about slide guitar from Ry Cooder

slide guitar

This is good for the cooking, might be too slow for the party part. Maybe try Johnny Guitar Watson

Dollar Bill

Or some Cuban music to liven it up

Buena Vista Social Club

being a music major in college I have eclectic tastes that only were exacerbated when I became a radio DJ for 5 years....

Louis Prima is the best for swinging jams

exacerbated????Whew! Tell me about Louis Prima. And no, you don't have to give me an definition of the word.<G>

Willie, Billy Joe Shaver, Kevin Fowler, Stevie Ray, Johnny Winter. Bluegrass etc. It never stops. I love Music Match on Demand!!!!!!!!!

for me it all depends on what is cooking at the time
for beef brisket i find that any house or jungle techno music works well but for really tough ones i find the ring cycle by wagner to soften them up really well. that and repeating to the brisket "arbecht macht frie" while seigfried's death march is playing does the trick too!! the really hard cases will require the aplication of the xena warrior princess cd.
for pork butts i like bb king freddy king and clapton the best
for ribs david allen coe or goerge jones works good
for chicken ya got me. i leave the rig when peggy does her chicken. knowing her it is bach or mozart or beethoven
jack

Ha! heehee !

Blues all the way for me.

Stevie Ray, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, Gary Moore, Jimi, Buddy Guy, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, etc.

Tom Chilton, you have made a believer out of me after listenting to Ry Cooder.I'm sure the other music you mentioned is great too.
I am going to have to make at trip to buy some CD's for traveling music in the car.Any suggestions on which albums? I like tempo like the slider music when we are traveling with the top down on the car at night.

Commish,
Send some primo Louis Prima

Allflowers,

I responded to your post on the Grill Forum. But I'll repost it here for our pellet head friends.

I made my own mix cd with all barbecue related songs.

Here's a suggested track list of Barbecue songs so you can make your own mix CD.

Disc #1

1. "I Love Bar-B-Q" - The Guy Brothers & Orchestra
2. "Riffin' At The Bar-B-Q" - King Cole's Swingsters
3. "Barbecued Ribs" - The 3 Riffs
4. "The House Of Blue Lights" - Freddie Slack with Rythm Section & Ella Mae Morse
5. "Pork Chops" - The Dorsets
6. "Neck Bones & Hot Sauce (Part I)" - The Tarnadoes
7. "Bar-B-Q" - Wendy Rene
8. "Hot Barbecue" - Brother Jack McDuff
9. "TV Barbecue" - Rotondi
10. "Barbecue Any Old Time" - Blind Boy Fuller #2 (Brownie McGhee)
11. "Beale Street Bar-B-Q" - The Memphis Boys
12. "Bar-B-Que Man" - Sonny St*tt (Edited for forum - replace star with i)
13. "Barbecue Blues" - John Hammond
14. "Bar-B-Q Sauce" - Sam Price
15. "Barbecue Bess" - Golden Age Jazz Band
16. "Bar-B-Cutie" - Evan Johns & The H-Bombs
17. "Memphis Soul Stew" - King Curtis
18. "Sweet Soul Music" - Arthur Conley
19. "Soul Food" - Asylum Choir
20. "Soul Food" - Albert Collins
21. "Red Beans" - Professor Long Hair
22. "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" - Fats Domino
23. "Smokey Joe's Cafe" - The Robins
24. "Soul-Limbo" - Booker T. & The M.G.'s
25. "Too Much Barbecue" - Big Twist & The Mellow Fellows

Disc #2

1. "Barbecue Stain" - Tim Mcgraw
2. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) - The Carpenters
3. "Hot Tamales and Bar B Que" - Chico Chism and His Jetanairs
4. "Rocky Top Bar b que" - Mike Cross
5. "Aussie BBQ" - Cham Chowder
6. "Struttin' with some BBQ" - Louis Armstrong
7. "Summer BBQ" Broken Zion
8. "Barbecue" - Robert Earl Keen
9. "UFOs, Big Rigs And BBQ" - Mojo Nixon and Skip Roper
10. "Bar B Que" - Duke Tumatoe
11. "Snowshoe BBQ" - Atom and his Package
12. "Fried Neck Bones" - Willie Bobo
13. "Millie Make Some Chili" - Billy Vera and the Beaters
14. "Jambalaya (On The Bayou) - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
15. "Meat off the Bone" - Robert Ward
16. "BBQ at J.D.'s" - Johnny Dryer
17. "Mamma's Cookin'" - Marcia Ball
18. "Pigmeat on the Line" - Elvin Bishop
19. "Hot Sauce" - Son Seals
20. "Greasy Gravy" - William Clarke
21. "Smoke 'n' Fire" - Smokey Wilson
22. "Smells Like Bar B Que" - Big Joe and the Dynaflows
23. "Heartburn" - Johnny Heartsman

Disclaimer: You should only copy songs from CDs you already own or have legally download from a service that has the right to sell the song in question.

Bill

Man I never even had a clue there was this many Q songs out there!
I have several "mix" classic rock cd's I play during times of Q recorded using MP3 on DVD's. I can get upwards of 700 songs on each disc.

Bluegrass,My team loves it. Bluedogs, There was a Zydeco band this year in Tryon that had the whole crowd up and dancing.


Craig

Lois Prima is probably most famous for his Vegas swinging days....but I got really into him because of the work he did with Disney. He is voice on I Want to be Like You from the Jungle Book. You know where Baloo the bear and "King Louie" the orangutan are dancing like crazy....that's him. Let me dig up an MP3 or two and send it your way.

Chris

Oh..Thank you so much for all those suggestions. I didnt expect so many people would reply to my message(Esp Grill with Bill, I appreciate it!!). But have you guys heard of Tracy Bonham at all? coz she's kinda in the genre of alternative rock. what you think about her?

lil too grungey

I don't know much abou talternative music. I guess I am old enough to think it is something I woudln't go for but then again I like some kinds of music most people my age don't.
Commish, I would appreciate it!
I have been listening to the cuts Mainely dave has on his site and on the Ring of Fire link

I sent them yesterday....from real player.

Chirs

I didn't know that anything other then country music was allowed at a BBQ???

Seems like a crime to play anything else.

I agree with IR...
Its is hard to beat:
George Jones
Conway Twitty
Gary Stewart
Moe Bandy
Darrell McCall
George Strait
Mel Street
Charlie Daniels, while watching smoke, drinking beer, puffing a nice cigar.

or just turning on the XM radio and letting it go.

I thought that nothing went with BBQ,except BLUES
(BLUES & BBQ)& blues-rock,people like stevie ray vaughan,los lonely boys,indigenous,bb king,delbert mcClinton,
wet willy,CCR,eric clapton,buddy guy,robert bradley,bryan lee,just to name a few.love all of them myself.

Richard

Jimmy Buffet while I mix up rub and prep meat. Classic rock on the mellow side for the early am fire up, Clapton, Van Morrison, Stones. Something jammin' for the afternoon finish, Nirvana, Bush, Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction. Hard to find music I don't like.

How about Stevie Ray Vaughn

Texas Flood

Or Elmore James

Elmore James

These sound like BBQ to me.

When I'm prepping chicken, I like bluegrass. When I'm plating chicken, I like silence.

Other than that, I love any music. My daughter and I went to Warped Tour a few years ago, so I like Green Day a lot. I like Weezer and Jayne's Addiction. I like Drop Kick Murphy's.

I absolutely think the Gypsy Kings are great with BBQ if you want happy, relaxing. Salsa music. I like steel drums, too. A lot of Jimmy Buffett gives you the feeling, too.

Blues are great. My favorite I guess is "Riding with the King". Eric Clapton and BBKing.

No, Jack, I don't listen to classical while I'm doing BBQ.

Showtunes can be good, check out "Ain't Misbehavin", or "South Pacific".

I guess my favorite is bluegrass. I tend to go for Allison Krause and Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs.
Peggy

Texaskingfish you are old school - like that!

Now a days I could put on Toby Keith and just let it play all day!

Anyone have any Zydeco sounds they could post here to fimd out who they are (pardon my ignorance)?
Gib