New Additions to Saving Country Music’s Spotify Playlist (Update #8)

The Saving Country Music Official Top 25 Spotify Playlist has been reinforced for your post-Labor Day listening and beyond with a slew of new tracks that deserve to be separated from the herd and have a spotlight shone on them for their songwriting and compositional exceptionalism.

These songs include “Don’t Look At Me” from the singing duo Porter Union, revitalizing the lost art of the male/female country duet. 2nd generation performer Lukas Nelson and his band Promise of the Real dazzle with the new song “Just Outside of Austin” from their recently-released self-titled record. Though Lukas doesn’t exclusively adhere to the country genre in his music or on the new album, “Just Outside of Austin” exemplifies how when he chooses to take after his old man, he can astound.

Alice Wallace astounds herself with a yodel-enhanced new song “Echo Canyon” recently released as a single. Any time the Turnpike Troubadours release a song it’s worth paying attention, and they evoke the name of a familiar character named Lorrie in their new song “The Housefire.” And as a curve ball comes the fun song from South City Revival called “It’s Alright.”

If you don’t do the Spotify thing, you can always find a list of the songs, albums, and artists below to venture further in discovering some new music via SCM’s top current recommendations.

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Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist

1.  “Way Down in My Soul” – Zephaniah Ohora – This Highway
2. “Don’t Look At Me” – Porter Union – Porter Union
3. “Just Outside of Austin” – Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Self-Titled
4. “Independent Trucker” – The Sons of the Palomino – Sons of the Palomino
5. “Slow Down Easy” – John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
6. “16-10” – Joseph Huber – The Suffering Stage
7. “Say It To Me” – Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart
8. “If We Were Vampires” – Jason Isbell – The Nashville Sound
9. “Large Hall, Slow Decay” – Haley Thompson-King – Psychotic Melancholia
10.  “I Can’t Breathe” – Parker McCollum – Probably Wrong: Session One EP
11. “Texas Jesus” – Robyn Ludwick – This Tall to Ride
12. “Cairo, IL” – The Brother Brothers – Tugboats – EP
13. “It’s Alright” – South City Revival – South City Revival
14. “Giving Back The Best of Me” – Jaime Wyatt – Felony Blues
15. “Bang Bang” – Sarah Jane Scouten – When The Bloom Falls From The Rose
16. “Tears Don’t Stain” – The Country Side of Harmonica Sam – A Drink After Midnight
17. “The Housefire” – Turnpike Troubadours – A Long Way From Your Heart
18. “I’d Sing About You” – Joe Nichols – Never Gets Old
19. “Old Stone Church” – John Baumann – Proving Grounds
20. “Kate McCannon” – Colter Wall – Colter Wall
21. “Keep The Home Fires Burnin’” – Sarah Shook & The Disarmers – Sidelong
22. “Whitehouse Road” – Tyler Childers – Purgatory
23. “Echo Canyon” – Alice Wallace – (single)
24. “Fleshy Hands” – Skunk Ruckus – Pearls Before Swine
25. “Broken Halos” – Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Vol. 1