New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#166)

Don’t allow the purveyors of pop to piss in your ear and call it “country.” There’s an entire universe of actual country artists out there offering a more healthy alternative. This playlist is your window into it.

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:

Waylon Jennings – “Wrong Road Again” – Everything feels a little bit more right in the world after ten unheard tracks from the one and only Waylon Jennings were just released under the title Songbird. And yes, these were leftovers, but as Waylon proves with “Wrong Road Again,” even his bad songs were good at his peak in the ’70s. Waylon sounds superb on this track.

Nicholas Jamerson – “Running Out of Daylight” – It’s impossible for any among us to not find the words of “Running Out of Daylight” relatable, while Jamerson also proves his melodic prowess through the song, and his gift for presenting emotion in a vocal performance. The song is from his new album The Narrow Way.

Ladybird – “Famous Band” – This up-tempo alt-country track is fun and clever, and makes you super interested in what else this Milwaukee-based band has in store for their debut album Clementine out October 10th.

Colter Wall – “1800 Miles” – Modern Western music legend Colter Wall has let it be known that his next album will be COUNTRY, and he commences this exercise with this Nashville kiss-off about how 1800 miles from Nashville is where the real cowboy sh-t goes down. New album Memories and Empties is out November 14th.

Carlisle Wright – “Honkytonk Talkin’” – Keep an eye out for country music traditionalist Carlisle Wright. She is the daughter of Big City Brian Wright, and is related to the one and only Alan Jackson. “Honkytonk Talkin'” proves the country music apple doesn’t fall too far from the family tree.

Flatland Cavalry – “Midland After Midnight” – From the recent soundtrack for Landman Season 1, this song was written by series stars Billy Bob Thornton and Mark Collie, but is rendered exquisitely by the West Texas-originating Flatland Cavalry who know how to make a song like this their own. Good country song.

Marcus King – “Honky Tonk Hell” – Marcus King’s new album Darling Blue isn’t country, but it’s got more country sounds, country songs, and country collaborations than ever before. “Honky Tonk Hell” is the album’s big beefy country-adjacent single that will get your blood pumping for sure.

Country Honk – Driving Me to Drink” – Cleveland, OH’s Country Honk impressed us earlier this year with the release of their album Bad Decisions, and they’re back with this killer honky tonk track that helps keep them in the national country music consciousness.

Dwight Yoakam – “That’s What Lonely People Do” – Any time Dwight Yoakam’s dulcet tones grace a song, it’s worth giving it a listen. From the Landman Season 1 soundtrack, it was co-written by series stars Billy Bob Thornton and Mark Collie, with Yoakam himself also co-writing the track.

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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:

• “Honky Tonk Hell” – Marcus King – Darling Blue
• “1800 Miles” – Colter Wall – Memories and Empties (11-14)
• “Kissing You Goodbye” – Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman
• “The King Is Back” – Luke Bell – The King Is Back (11-7)
• “It’s Not Me It’s You” – Chandler Dozier – Bakersfield East EP
• “Tell Me” – Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love
• “Famous Band” – Ladybird – Clementine (10-10)
• “Wrong Road Again” – Waylon Jennings – Songbird
• “Running Out Of Daylight” – Nicholas Jamerson – The Narrow Way
• “If Heaven Looks Like Arkansas” – Jack Blocker – The Land On Most High
• “Blue Mountain” – Brothers Comatose – Golden Grass
• “Drownin’ In Whiskey” – Jake Worthington – When I Write The Song
• “Tennessee Quick Cash” – Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day
• “Honkytonk Talkin’ – Carlisle Wright – (single)
• “Between The Ditches” – Zach Top – Ain’t In It For My Health
• “I Drink Well With Others” – Sunny Sweeney – Rhinestone Requiem
• “Cicadas” – Sachin & The Porch – Denied Claims EP
• “Ready For The Takin’” – Trace Nixon – (single)
• “Midland After Midnight” – Flatland Cavalry – Landman Soundtrack
• “Blame The Train” – Daniel Donato – Horizons
• “Believe” – Kashus Culpepper – (single)
• “Driving Me to Drink” – Country Honk – (single)
• “Cul-De-Sac Kid” – Jess Jocoy – Cul-De-Sac Kid (10-24)
• “Strangers Like Us” – Walker Montgomery – (single)
• “Never Gonna Be” – Jamey Johnson, Ronnie Dunn – (single)
• “That’s What Lonely People Do” – Dwight Yoakam – Landman Soundtrack