Poultry Emotion: A 20-Piece Bucket o' Classic Chicken Songs

List of the Day

In honor of golden-throated Kentucky chicken farmer Kevin Skinner, who won the million-dollar grand prize on America's Got Talent last week, we offer this squawkingly great list of songs about the delicious bird this new pop-cultural phenomenon used to spend so much time looking after.

1. "Chicken Grease" - D'Angelo

2. "Chicken Payback" - A Band of Bees

3. "Dixie Chicken" - Little Feat

4. "Debra" - Beck

("Like a fruit that's ripe for the pickin' / I wouldn't do you like that Zankou Chicken")

5. "Return to Hot Chicken" - Yo La Tengo

6. "Old Fowl Ska" - Roland Alphonso

7. "Back at the Chicken Shack" - Jimmy Smith

8. "Run Chicken Run" - The Felice Brothers
9. "Chicken Heads" - Bobby Rush

10. "Fried Chicken" - Nas feat. Busta Rhymes

11. "Hey Chicken" - Loose Fur

12. "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off" - The Magnetic Fields

13. "Steak for Chicken" - The Moldy Peaches

14. "July, July!" - The Decemberists

("This is the story of the road that goes to my house / And what ghosts there do remain / And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house / And the chickens how they rattle chicken chains")

15. "Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)" - Drive-By Truckers (Covering Tom T. Hall)

16. "Chicken Train Stomp" - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

17. "The Whole Damn Thing" - Those Darlins

("I got drunk and I ate chicken / I ate chicken I found in my kitchen / Not just a leg and not just a wing / I'd like to let you know that I ate the whole damn thing!")

18. "Run Chicken Run" - Link Wray

19. "Chicken" - Mississippi John Hurt

20. "Yardbird Suite" - Charlie Parker