Bluetick Coonhound - Famous Bluetick Coonhounds

Famous Bluetick Coonhounds

Smokey, the mascot of the University of Tennessee, is a Bluetick.

A Bluetick Coonhound named Tet was the companion of Stringfellow Hawke, the main character of popular 1980s television show Airwolf.

Neil Young has stated that his song "Old King" is a tribute to a deceased Bluetick Coonhound he once owned.

An unnamed Bluetick Coonhound is featured in Blake Shelton's hit single, "Ol' Red". The song relates an escape plan of a man convicted of a crime of passion when he murdered his wife and her lover. He devises a plan to have a female Bluetick lure the prison's male Redbone Coonhound Ol' Red away from the narrator (Shelton) instead of tracking him as he heads in the opposite direction. The closing lines of the song are: "Now there's red-haired Blueticks all in the South, / Love got me in there and love got me out."

Coonhounds are featured in the book Where the Red Fern Grows. However, the two main dogs are Redbone Coonhounds.

Emmylou Harris sings about her friend Lillian's "Bluetick hound dog, Gideon" in her song Red Dirt Girl.

Charlie Daniels mentions that he is "kinda like my old Bluetick hound/I like to lay around in the shade" in his song "Long Haired Country Boy."

David Allan Coe mentions a Bluetick hound in his song "Cum Stains on the Pillow."

A Bluetick was featured in a Miracle Whip television commercial. After making a sandwich, the dog discovers the owner is out of Miracle Whip. (Jeff Gorman Films - Man's Best Friend Makes a Sandwich; Animal Makers animation)

Ken Kesey, in his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", used a Bluetick Coonhound as a symbol for his main character Chief Bromden.

In Savage Sam, the sequel to Old Yeller, the title character is a Bluetick Coonhound. He is meant to be the son of Old Yeller, despite Old Yeller having been a Blackmouth Cur.

Justin Moore's song "Backwoods" features a line "Bluetick coonhound you know where I'm found out in the..."

In the movie Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

In Chappelle's Show the dog in the opening credits is a Bluetick Coonhound.

In the book Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, the hound dog Rowdy is a Bluetick Coonhound.

Pistol Annies sing about a no-good husband in the song "The Hunter's Wife" on the album Hell on Heels: "I've got myself a problem / I can't figure no way out / It's like I'm married to a shotgun carrying, tobacco chewing, no good Bluetick Hound."