Johnny Cash's 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down' and Alan Jackson's 'Five O'Clock Somewhere' (with Jimmy Buffett) are classic drinking songs.
The new film, Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake, a washed up country singer with an alcohol problem, is getting Oscar buzz. The theme song by Ryan Bingham — The Weary Kind — will likely make Bingham a household name.
Country music’s history rests soundly on songs about alcohol. Funny, poignant, wise, the list is long, so choosing ten songs was no easy task.
Here’s my list of my top ten favorite drinking songs.
10. I Love This Bar — Toby Keith
9. Friends in Low Places — Garth Brooks
8. Drinkin’ and Dialing — Darius Rucker
7. Domestic, Light and Cold — Dierks Bentley
6. Here for the Party — Gretchen Wilson
5. Walk a Little Straighter — Billy Currington
4. It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere — Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett
3. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down — Johnny Cash
2. Drinking Me Lonely — Chris Young
1. Whiskey Lullaby — Brad Paisley with Alison Krause
What songs are on your list of the best drinking songs?
No rock songs? Like Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”? What about John Prine’s “They Ought to Name a Drink After You”. This list is fine if you listen to country pop, but by no means is it complete.
You forgot to mention Merle Haggards I think I’LL just stay here and drink and Hank Williams theres a tear in my beer,thats real Country not like this crap you have today.
How can any one have a drinking song list without “one bourbon, one scotch” or “I drink alone”. Your list suuucks.
I’m with you RP and Saul.
“I drink alone” by george thorogood. There ain’t no better.
family tradition……….hank junior
Wow – that list is terrible. How about Closing Time by Semisonic, Gin ‘n Juice by Snoop Dogg, Have a Drink on Me by AC/DC, Roadhouse Blues with the greatest single line about drinking by the Doors, and Fight for your Right by the Beastie Boys!!!
Thin Lizzy’s Whiskey in a Jar. Metallica’s version of the song is pretty good too.
Obviously you know very little about country music or you would have to mention the late Gary Stewart a local South Florida guy. Drinking Thing if that ain’t country i will kiss your Grits
Darius Rucker’s name should only appear on the “tired pop singers” list.
A little off track, but the Mighty Mighty Bosstones have a song called “Another Drinking Song”…my favorite line…”what you call a disease, I call a remedy, and what you’re calling the cause I call the cure”
“You never call me by my name” -David Allan Coe
FYI, it’s my favorite COUNTRY drinking songs. It’s all tied to Crazy Heart, which is about a country artist.
I probably can’t even name a drinking rock song, but I’m sure there are a lot of them too. I love the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ line.
One of my favorite country lines comes from Tim McGraw: I drink because I’m lonesome and I’m lonesome because I drink.”
That David Allan Coe song is on my top 25 list, as is Merle’s.
If I made a list tomorrow it might be different than this one, because it’s totally subjective and it depends as much on mood as it does anything.
This is not meant to be a definitive list, it’s just for fun.
If you do suggest a song, please tell me who recorded it.
Only country songs? Horrible. whoever made this incomplete redneck geared list needs to not be allowed to write anymore where anyone can see their work ever.
If it’s only supposed to be country, then the headline should not be top 10 drinking songs.
your list is TERRIBLE …you shouldnt even be allowed to write about music if this is what you bring to the table.
How can anyone forget “lets get drunk and screw”????
Worst list ever!
George Jones, White lightning
Charlie Daniels, Drinking my baby goodbye
Brad Paisley, Alcohol
Big & Rich, Kick my A**
Dixie Chicks, Sin wagon
The Rovers, Wasn’t That A Party
The Boxmasters, She’s lookin better by the minute
Emmylou Harris, Two more bottles of wine
Garth Brooks/George Jones, Beer run
Kenny Chesney, Beer in Mexico
I saw mommy kissing santa claus
Shouldn’t even allow people to comment on this article, they can’t read so why should they comment.
This article is about COUNTRY DRINKING SONGS. READ THE ARTICLE.
Bubba Wilson’s “The Beer Song”
“Beer is proof that the good Lord loves us…”
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2201238
What!!!!!
where is ‘Chug-a-lug’ by Roger Miller????
What about the comment that country music is soley on drinking songs?? Oh please. This list is so incomplete by any standards. And, I am ashamed to share my name with this author. Get more facts before you start publishing
the lord loves the drinkin man–mark chesnutt
fifteen beers– johnny paycheck
colorado koolaid–johnny paycheck
if drinkin don’t kill me, her memory will–hank jr
saving the honkytonk–mark chesnutt
jack daniels if you please–david alan coe
d.r.u.n.k.–paycheck & david alan coe
whiskey river–willie nelson
honky tonkin–hank williams
Country wrote the book on drinking songs.
AC DC “Have a Drink on Me” one of their few GOOD songs along with Big B*lls and Highway to Hell.
Humble Pie’s Thirty Days in the Hole
Croce’s Time in a Bottle if ya wanna be introspective about it