EMERGENCY Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#156)

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Nobody panic. But we have a situation where it’s necessary to interrupt the regularly scheduled programming and the typical rhythms of Saving Country Music to offer an EMERGENCY update to the Top 25 Playlist, principally to include multiple songs from the white hot new album from the Turnpike Troubadours, The Price of Admission, that is currently setting the country music world on fire.

This might be the band’s big breakout moment, and we just can’t be sitting on our hands here, waiting until after Easter to include some of the songs on the Top 25 Playlist, not to mention some other top songs sitting in the hopper.

The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist is built to keep you informed on all the best songs and albums coming out right here, right now in country and roots music. It’s available on most all streaming formats (see below), or you can just use the song, artist, and album recommendations to find something new to listen to. New songs just added.

Newest Additions:


The Wildmans – “Take Me” – This is a very interesting brother and sister duo that just signed to New West Records and will be releasing their album Longtime Friend on July 11. Great vocal performances behind a earthen sound get you excited for what they have in store.

Country Honk – “Round and Round” – This local band out of Cleveland, Ohio has just released a super twangy and tasty debut album called Bad Decision, and “Round and Round” gives you a good indication of the kind of hard country stuff you can sink your teeth into.

Turnpike Troubadours – “Heaven Passing Through” – Single of the Year nominee? It’s definitely a candidate for the best song on the new Turnpike record, with exquisite writing by Felker, and a deep-sinking lyrical hook bolstering the chorus. It’s already the most streamed song from the album.

Turnpike Troubadours – “On The Red River” – Song of the Year nominee? It’s often the hunting songs of Turnpike where they make the deepest impact, with previous songs “The Bird Hunters” and “The Rut” being great examples. But really these hunting songs are about the strength of family bonds, and how the rhythms of life like the onset of hunting season allow the realizations of these bonds to rise to the front of consciousness in emotional moments.

Jenna Paulette – “How To Make a Cowboy Cry” – Jenna Paulette has a way with words when describing the cowboy life and the emotions that come with it. Being a cowboy requires a lot of toughness. But that doesn’t mean they’re cold.

Chasen Wayne – “Sonora” – (Being released on 4/18) Chasen Wayne and The Honky Tonk Machine always figures out how to mine the unexplored territory in country music and take it to cool places. The lead single from Chasen’s upcoming concept album Corpus is no different.

Hailey Whitters – “High On The Hog” – Ahead of her new album Corn Queen on June 6th, Hailey Whitters turns in this super fun country heater about chasing down your dreams and being willing to make compromises to do it.


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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist primarily lives on Spotify, but is also available for those who use Amazon Music, YouTube, and Apple Music. For those who don’t stream music, you can still find the song recommendations in list form below.

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Please Note: The songs on this playlist are curated for listening pleasure and flow. Otherwise, they are not in any specific order.

Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:

  • “Long Way Home” – Matt Daniel – The Poet
  • “Heaven Passing Through” – Turnpike Troubadours – The Price of Admission
  • “High On The Hog” – Hailey Whitters – Corn Queen (6-6)
  • “Almost, so Close, so Long, Goodbye” – Walker Montgomery – (single)
  • “Honky Tonk Blue” – William Beckmann – (single)
  • “Round and Round” – Country Honk – Bad Decision
  • “Comanche” – Kelsey Waldon – Every Ghost (6-20)
  • “I’m The One” – Jake Worthington w/ Marty Stuart – (single)
  • “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” – The Castellows – (single)
  • “Makin’ It Work” – Tony Kamel – We’re All Gonna Live (4-18)
  • “Another Time and Place” – Juliet McConkey – Southern Front
  • “Game I Can’t Win” – Charley Crcokett – Lonesome Drifter
  • “Take Me” – The Wildmans – Longtime Friend (7-11)
  • “My Time Is Gonna Come” – Jesse Daniel – Son of the San Lorenzo (6-6)
  • “Sonora” – Chasen Wayne – Corpus (6-6)
  • “How To Make A Cowboy Cry” – Jenna Paulette – (single)
  • “On The Red River” – Turnpike Troubadours – The Price of Admission
  • “Fast Track Back” – Cole Goodwin – (single)
  • “Texas 42” – Silverada – Texas 42 (acoustic album)
  • “Yellow Rose” – Tony Logue – Dark Horse
  • “This World Is Cold” – Cam Pierce – A Thousand Lonely Horses
  • “241s” – Lola Kirke – Trailblazer
  • “It’s Her Move” – Charles Wesley Godwin – Lonely Mountain Town
  • “Wicked and Cruel” – The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers – (single)
  • “The Way She Lies” – Spencer Hatcher – (single)
  • “Watchin’ The World Pass Me By” – Kristina Murray – Little Blue (5-9)
  • “Take Me Back to Austin” – Jason Boland and the Stragglers – Kings of Babylon
  • “Churches” – Low Gap – (single)
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