New Additions to Saving Country Music’s Spotify Playlist, & Now Available on Google Play (#9)
As summer concludes and we start to enter what promises to be a very crowded fall for landmark releases in country music, new songs have just been added to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Playlist to get you ready.
The Turnpike Troubadours will be releasing their highly-anticipated new record A Long Way From Your Heart on October 20th, and recently they released the second single from the record, “Old Time Feeling (Like Before).” Dori Freeman has her own highly-anticipated October 20th release with Letters Never Read, and her new song “If I Could Make You My Own” graces the #1 spot on the playlist.
Billy Strings just released his new highly-anticipated debut record, and though most 9-minute songs would be sacrilege to put on a playlist, “Meet Me at the Creek” is just too damn good to not include. And the last song recruited for the playlist comes from another effort listeners are saying may mark the high point of a career, that being Lilly Hiatt‘s Trinity Lane. The song “Records” is not exceptionally country, but it’s certainly great, and one of the best songs from a great record.
Also, the playlist is finally available for those who use Google Play. We’ll continue to try and add formats for the Top 25 Playlist for those non Spotify users as it becomes feasible. For those who use neither, you can still find the song recommendations below.
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Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “If I Could Make You My Own” – Dori Freeman – Letters Never Read
- “Way Down in My Soul” – Zephaniah Ohora – This Highway
- “Just Outside of Austin” – Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Self-Titled
- “Old Time Feeling” – Turnpike Troubadours – A Long Way From Your Heart
- “Don’t Look At Me” – Porter Union – Porter Union
- “Slow Down Easy” – John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
- “16-10” – Joseph Huber – The Suffering Stage
- “If We Were Vampires” – Jason Isbell – The Nashville Sound
- “Large Hall, Slow Decay” – Haley Thompson-King – Psychotic Melancholia
- “I Can’t Breathe” – Parker McCollum – Probably Wrong: Session One EP
- “Texas Jesus” – Robyn Ludwick – This Tall to Ride
- “Cairo, IL” – The Brother Brothers – Tugboats – EP
- “It’s Alright” – South City Revival – South City Revival
- “Giving Back The Best of Me” – Jaime Wyatt – Felony Blues
- “Records” – Lilly Hiatt – Trinity Lane
- “Bang Bang” – Sarah Jane Scouten – When The Bloom Falls From The Rose
- “Tears Don’t Stain” – The Country Side of Harmonica Sam – A Drink After Midnight
- “Independent Trucker” – The Sons of the Palomino – Sons of the Palomino
- “Old Stone Church” – John Baumann – Proving Grounds
- “Kate McCannon” – Colter Wall – Colter Wall
- “Whitehouse Road” – Tyler Childers – Purgatory
- “Meet Me at the Creek” – Billy Strings – Turmoil & Tinfoil
- “Echo Canyon” – Alice Wallace – (single)
- “Fleshy Hands” – Skunk Ruckus – Pearls Before Swine
- “Broken Halos” – Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Vol. 1
September 26, 2017 @ 12:28 pm
“Old Time Feeling” is a great song. I’ve been listening to the new turnpike album for a few weeks now and it is IMO their best album yet. Every song is great. To put it in perspective “Old Time Feeling” is around the middle of the pack for me on the album as a whole.
September 26, 2017 @ 11:11 pm
How are you doing that? It’s not out yet is it?
September 26, 2017 @ 1:11 pm
Hey Trig I have something interesting to point out about country music preferences right now. I’m 18 and in college at the University of Florida, and am going to join this fraternity for agriculture students there. They hook their phones up to these Bluetooth speakers in the frat house and play music, and I’ve noticed that they are actually playing very good country music. I’ve heard Sturgill, Cody Jinks, and Stapleton multiple times, enough times for it to not be a fluke. Also heard Jamey Johnson and Stapleton-era Steeldrivers. I was very surprised, and it’s got me thinking that there is a growing resentment among younger country fans against much of the current mainstream country music. Now you still hear the occasional Aldean and Luke Bryan song from some of the guys, but they seem to be overwhelmingly listening to the good music. What do you make of this?
September 26, 2017 @ 2:05 pm
Enjoy it — the music of my university in the midwest is shitty as ever!
September 26, 2017 @ 2:34 pm
Interesting insight Rob. One thing about streaming is it is definitely aiding the discovery process through playlists. Unfortunately a lot of the major labels are attempting to monopolize certain major playlists and payola-type incentives are coming into play as well, band that’s one of the reasons I started this playlist is to make sure every sector of country music is benefiting.
September 26, 2017 @ 2:50 pm
I’ve noticed that too. I’m way out of college but live in an apartment where there are a lot of college students, and have heard the people above me blaring Sturgill and Stapleton a few times. And with Sturgill it wasn’t just his new stuff, but also songs from high top mountain.
September 27, 2017 @ 5:39 am
If they are playing great music, I’m guessing they are transfer students from FSU. Just kidding. Outstanding to see another generation appreciating the good stuff. Good luck with your education!
September 27, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
I’m actually an FSU fan lol, UF was closer to home though. But thanks!
September 27, 2017 @ 1:03 pm
That’s hilarious, Rob!
September 27, 2017 @ 10:07 am
The key I see in your comment is that you are hanging with agriculture students. I am a recent college grad, and working in radio, but I grew up on a small family farm. So naturally, most of my friends are also small family farm raised kids. They listen to traditional country, old classic country/old pop country, and they like the new outlaw stuff too.
The divide I see are the kids who are raised in small towns, but not on farm settings, are the ones that gravitate towards the bro-country/new country.
The difference I see is this: the small town kids went to the farm to party (bro-country), while the farm raised kids grew up with and experienced first-hand hard work/troubles/heartbreak/late hours etc of the farm life, which gave them a sense of real emotion, similar to what is found in the music most folks like around here.
September 27, 2017 @ 12:04 pm
Killer insight FTH.
September 27, 2017 @ 12:20 pm
I don’t know how true it is elsewhere, but that’s my personal observations
September 27, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
Well, sir, you have a unique perspective, so I believe you’re probably on to something.
September 27, 2017 @ 12:43 pm
I think that is true a lot of the time. I think there is also at times a correlation between intelligence level and the music listened to.
September 26, 2017 @ 1:51 pm
Thanks for doing this, as always. One other album I’ve been digging is Ties of Blood and Affection by Jeremy Pinnell. Definitely worth checking out. Sounds a bit like if John Moreland went a bit more classic country in his arrangements and added more steel guitar.
September 26, 2017 @ 2:04 pm
Took me a long time to come around on John Moreland, but I really like his latest.
September 26, 2017 @ 1:57 pm
Trig, u should make a playlist for Apple Music too!
September 26, 2017 @ 2:38 pm
It’s definitely on the “to do” list. The tricky part has been how to interface with Apple without having to do the whole iTunes thing. Hopefully in the next few updates I can add that.
September 26, 2017 @ 2:58 pm
You forgot to put “Drinkin’ Problem” – Midland at #1
har-har.
September 26, 2017 @ 4:36 pm
In all seriousness, I would love to have a Midland song on here. But I would get railed for helping to promote posers, even before my recent review.
September 26, 2017 @ 9:00 pm
Thanks for keeping this updated! I know you have a large backlog of music to get to, and it’s most likely to get larger as we near the holidays. But it would be a shame if you don’t get a chance to hear Kasey Chambers’ “Dragonfly” sometime this year. (I’m not connected with her… just a big fan.)
Also thanks for including Sarah Shook on your previous list. One of the best shows I attended at AmericanaFest. Who woulda guessed hard-drinking hillbilly warbles could be so catchy.
September 27, 2017 @ 1:20 pm
Hey Trig, keep track of Roy Williams, who played on Zephaniah O’Hora’s debut record. He plays guitar like Django, piano like Floyd Cramer, and arranges like a dream. Making music for all the right reasons. He’ll have a new record this year which you can find on pledgemusic.com. Maybe that’s a mechanism for getting more of the music we all want.
September 28, 2017 @ 6:07 am
just dropping by to let you know i really enjoy the effort put into keeping this list up. its a great way to hear whats new and whats actually country!
September 28, 2017 @ 5:51 pm
Have you given the new Radney Foster a listen? “For You to See the Stars” should be on the list.
September 28, 2017 @ 6:50 pm
Did you ever get into the Rhonda Vincent/Daryle Singletary album? I woulda thought that would’ve been perfect for the SCM fans, especially considering the impact Chestnutt made last year. It’s def making my personal Top 10
September 28, 2017 @ 6:57 pm
Hey Dane,
Yes, I covered it numerous times, including posting a review a while ago:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/daryle-singletary-and-rhonda-vincent-keep-the-country-duet-alive-on-american-grandstand/
September 29, 2017 @ 5:01 pm
Thanks for putting the playlist on Google Play Music.
October 11, 2017 @ 11:43 am
Trigger,
I clicked the link on my android and it pulled up in Google Play but no way that I can see to subscribe. Ideas? Tutorial? lol
October 11, 2017 @ 3:15 pm
Yeah unfortunately I’m not going to be much help there. I can’t figure out how to subscribe to it myself.
October 11, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
I figured it out. You have to subscribe to unlimited.