This song sounds like an autobiographical tribute to the city of his birth, but Newman was born in Los Angeles and spent his childhood oscillating between Los Angeles and New Orleans. In this song, he assumes the character of a steel mill worker in Alabama who oozes pride in his Birmingham heritage.
Good Old Boys is a concept album, and "Birmingham" is a typical offbeat Newman song written slightly tongue-in-cheek. Reviewer Sean Nelson described this and the other songs on the album as "heavily critical studies of trash, loonies, drunks, dirty politicians, and bigots."
Newman wrote this song to flesh out the character he created in the song "Rednecks."
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