"Rockin' Chair Daddy" is a honky tonk country song written and recorded by Braxton Shuffert.
After the success of Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues'" in 1949, producer Fred Rose was given carte blanche to sign country acts to MGM, and one of them was Hank's friend Braxton Shuffert.
Williams had given Shuffert the song "A Teardrop on a Rose" but they needed one more tune for the flipside.
Shuffert later recalled: Like every record that Rose produced for MGM that was not by Hank Williams, the Jimmie Rodgers-influenced "Rockin' Chair Daddy" sold poorly.
Sam Phillips released a single on his own Sun Records, of "Rockin' Chair Daddy" b/w "The Great Medical Menagerist" in 1954, which had been recorded by Harmonica Frank.