50 Best Country Songs About Dinner
Country Dinner Songs Worth Playing at the Table
There’s a certain kind of hum that fills the air when dinner’s being made. It might be the rattle of a pot lid or the uneven clink of ice in a glass. Someone’s talking too loud in the kitchen, someone else is slipping bites off the counter. And then the right song drifts in from a speaker, the kind that makes you pause mid-stir because it fits the scene without trying. You’ve got the smells, the clatter, the flicker of light across a half-set table, and suddenly it all feels like a music video filmed on a budget of whatever was left in your wallet.
Dinner music doesn’t have to be background filler. Sometimes it’s rowdy enough to make someone tap a fork on their glass, or soft enough to quiet the table for a verse or two. It can lean sweet, bitter, or somewhere in that middle place where the lyrics feel lived-in. A few tracks might sound like they belong on the radio between pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, while others feel ripped from a local honky-tonk that smells faintly of fryer oil. The right playlist doesn’t smooth the edges, it keeps them in place so the night feels like its own thing instead of a staged moment.
Not every dinner turns into a Norman Rockwell scene. Sometimes it’s paper plates balanced on knees, sometimes it’s mismatched dishes with someone’s elbow in your space. The songs that work in those moments carry that same mix of warmth and grit. They’re the ones that hold the chatter together without drowning it out, the ones that make you notice the way the night actually sounds. Here are the best country songs for dinner time.
Top 10 Dinner Songs
1. 'Chicken Fried'—Zac Brown Band
2. 'Jambalaya (On The Bayou)'—Hank Williams
3. 'Biscuits'—Kacey Musgraves
4. 'Do You Want Fries With That'—Tim McGraw
5. 'Burgers and Fries'—Charley Pride
6. 'Fancy Like'—Walker Hayes
7. 'Meat and Potato Man'—Alan Jackson
8. 'That's What I Love About Sunday'—Craig Morgan
9. 'Crowded Table'—The Highwomen
10. 'Watermelon Crawl'—Tracy Byrd
Country Mealtime Songs #11—20
11. 'Homegrown Tomatoes'—Guy Clark
12. 'Hey, Good Lookin''—Hank Williams
13. 'A Home Cooked Meal'—Anointed Family
14. 'Family Table'—Zac Brown Band
15. 'I Still Like Bologna'—Alan Jackson
16. 'Christmas Cookies'—George Strait
17. 'Cheeseburger in Paradise'—Jimmy Buffett
18. 'Dinner with Friends'—Kacey Musgraves
19. 'Please Pass the Biscuits'—Jimmy Dean
20. 'Ode To Billie Joe'—Bobbie Gentry
Country Songs About Food #21—30
21. 'Hot Dogs And Hamburgers'—John Mellencamp
22. 'Beans For Breakfast'—Johnny Cash
23. 'Fried Chicken and Evil Women'—Vincent Neil Emerson
24. 'My Bacon Roll'—Mark Knopfler
25. 'Three Piece Chicken Dinner'—Kelly Ray
26. 'Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries'—Blaze Foley
27. 'White Palace'—Clay Walker
28. 'I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size'—Merle Travis
29. 'Three Hundred Pounds of Hongry'—Donnie Fritts
30. 'Wagon Wheel'—Darius Rucker
Country Songs About Eating #31—40
31. 'Look At Them Beans'—Johnny Cash
32. 'Take an Old Cold 'Tater (and Wait)'—Little Jimmy Dickens
33. 'The Wonderful Soup Stone'—Bobby Bare
34. 'Singin' In The Kitchen'—Bobby Bare & The Family
35. 'Corn'—Blake Shelton
36. 'Strawberry Cake'—Johnny Cash
37. 'If French Fries Were Fat Free'—Alan Jackson
38. 'Roly-Poly'—Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
39. 'Berry Pie'—Dolly Parton
40. 'Lemon Drop'—Pistol Annies
Country Songs About Mealtime #41—50
41. 'Mama's Cookin''—Cody Johnson
42. 'Corny'—Blake Shelton
43. 'My Home's In Alabama'—Alabama
44. 'Grandma's Hands'—Bill Withers
45. 'I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever'—Jimmy Buffett
46. 'Country Boy'—Little Jimmy Dickens
47. 'Redneck Yacht Club'—Craig Morgan
48. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
49. 'My Tennessee Mountain Home'—Dolly Parton
50. 'Sweet Home Alabama'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
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