Newest Additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#31)
The latest round of additions to the Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist start with a superb new song from Ward Davis off his new Asunder EP. If you’ve ever been through a tough divorce, or even if you haven’t, “Good and Drunk” hits you right where it hurts in the best way. It’s a late addition to one of the best songs released in 2018.
Up next is a song that goes in the opposite direction called “The One That You Love” from Texas panhandle band Comanche Moon. Their latest album Country Music Deathstar was just reviewed on Saving Country Music, and this song adds a little necessary positivity to the playlist. The solemn, vintage, faraway feel of “Pickup Cowboy” by Jonathan Byrd is next on the list. It’s the title track from his latest album.
It takes one special song from the mainstream to make the playlist. It’s not that mainstream tracks are discriminated against here, but they usually don’t need the help from Saving Country Music, and are usually not good enough to include. However Maddie & Tae’s “Die From A Broken Heart” continues to outperform for a non radio track, and is doing something special that is worth recognizing. One of the reasons songs by women are disappearing in the mainstream is because the artists and songs that show real traction aren’t always the ones that make it onto radio or playlists, like “Die From A Broken Heart.” It also happens to be a really good song, even if it’s from a slightly younger perspective than what some may expect from this playlist.
And last but not least, a new track from Colter Wall called “Raisin’ Cotton” from the Texas Cotton movie soundtrack makes the list. It’s one of many worthy songs from that compilation.
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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist primarily lives on Spotify, but is also available for those who use Google Play, and on Apple Music thanks to Country Exclusive. For those who don’t stream music, you can still find the song recommendations in list form below.
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Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “Natural Disaster” – Dillon Carmichael – Hell On An Angel
- “The One That You Love” – Comanche Moon – Country Music Deathstar
- “Good and Drunk” – Ward Davis – Asunder EP
- “Around Here” – Whitey Morgan and the 78’s – Hard Times and White Lines
- “If I Can Make Texas Tonite” – Tom Buller – When A Country Boy Gets the Blues
- “Ruby’s Stool” – Loretta Lynn – Wouldn’t It Be Great
- “Walking On Water” – Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters – All Damn Day
- “Living Room” – Brian Callihan – (single)
- “Raisin’ Cotton” – Colter Wall – Texas Cotton (Soundtrack)
- “Viki Lynn” – Lauren Morrow – Self-Titled EP
- “Cheyenne” – Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel
- “Finding Who I Always Should Have Been” – James Steinle – South Texas Homecoming
- “Brokenhearted” – William Michael Morgan – (single)
- “JP’s Florida Blues #1” – JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
- “Pickup Cowboy” – Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys – Pickup Cowboy
- “Slow Kill” – Kristina Murray – Southern Ambrosia
- “Death & Life” – Jamie Lin Wilson – Jumping Over Rocks
- “Bad Time To Be An Outlaw” – The Bottle Rockets – Bit Logic
- “Sad” – Carson McHone – Carousel
- “Die From A Broken Heart” – Maddie & Tae – (single)
- “Old News” – The Steel Woods – Old News
- “Is It Cheating” – Belle Plaine w/ Colter Wall – Malice, Mercy, Grief, and Wrath
- “Red And Gold” – The Brother Brothers – Some People I Know
- “She Don’t Love Me” – Adam Hood (w/ Brent Cobb) – Somewhere In Between
- “Better Boat” – Kenny Chesney (ft. Mindy Smith) – Songs for the Saints
- “Down Low” – Town Mountain ft. Tyler Childers – New Freedom Blues
December 2, 2018 @ 11:18 am
Raisin’ Cotton is a great track, and I also love Around Here.
December 2, 2018 @ 5:02 pm
I only wish more songs from Texas Cotton could make the cut. That’s an overall good listen.
December 2, 2018 @ 2:10 pm
The Other Playlist:
I don’t use Spotify but all artists & songs should be on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Google Play & other streaming services. Feel free to create a playlist.
My playlist contains more mainstream country tracks with a focus on Texas & Australia.
Best Song 2018 (so far): The Black Lilies – “Joy & Misery”
Most Played Song November 2018: Jordan Brooker – “Find My Fire”
Most Played Song 2018 (so far): Kirsty Lee Akers – “Chasing Ghosts”
Active / New & Current:
Cornell & Carr – “Be In The Band” (New)
Aberdeen Green – “Some People Fall, Some People Fly” (New)
Cole Risner feat. Jackie Darlene – “Did I Sober Up For This” (New)
Honey County – “Cigarette” (New)
Hunter Hathcoat – “Try My Best” (New)
Ben Kadlecek – “Whiskey Tears” (New)
Kolby Cooper – “Take It From Hank” (New)
Jaida Dreyer – “I’ve Been Everywhere” (New)
Dylan Wheeler – “Tell Me If I’m Wrong” (New)
John Berry – “Don’t Think I Ain’t Country” (New)
Derryl Perry – “No Country For A Broken Heart” (New)
Baillie & The Boys – “The House My Daddy Built” (New)
Kimberly Kelly – “First Fool In Line”
Kristy Cox – “Right Where You Left It”
Della Harris – “Long As You’re Lonely”
Melissa Robertson – “Little Country Life”
Darin Jones & The Last Men Standing – “Feels Like Coming Home”
The Sweet Jelly Rolls – “I Guess Those Country Songs Are Finally Getting To Me”
Caleb Paul – “These Tires Roll”
Terri Clark – “Cowboys In This Town”
The Chad Cooke Band – “Fire & Smoke”
The Chad Cooke Band – “Life Behind Bars”
Active / ReCurrent & Country Gold:
Sylvia – “Nobody”
Kathy Mattea – “Love Travels”
John Landry – “Everybody Rides”
George Ducas – “Lipstick Promises”
Ride The River – “After Last Night’s Storm”
Michael Peterson – “Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie”
Conway Twitty – “She’s Got A Man On Her Mind”
The Marshall Tucker Band – “Hangin’ Out In Smokey Places”
Playlist / Testing:
Josh Bogard & The Dirty South – “Better All The Time”
Ali Dee – “He’s Gonna Love Me (’til He Don’t)
Mira Goto feat. Marc Broussard – “Next Life”
Chloe Styler – “When Your Light Burns”
Andrea Person – “Speeding Car”
December 2, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
Australian for Texas.
December 2, 2018 @ 5:34 pm
I agree 100% about ‘Joy and Misery’. ‘Earthquake’ and ‘River Rolls’ are equally impressive. One of my favorite albums of 2018.
December 2, 2018 @ 4:13 pm
I’m glad to see Comanche Moon here, although I don’t care for TOTYL quite as much as Solid Ground or Colorado Bound.
December 2, 2018 @ 5:29 pm
Trigger, is the ‘Carolina Confessions’ album by the Marcus King Band on your radar? I just recently stumbled upon it but its pretty damn impressive.
December 2, 2018 @ 5:44 pm
The Marcus King Band and the Black Lillies are both on my radar. I will be trying to review some of the records I missed throughout the year in the next month now that the new releases have slowed down.
December 3, 2018 @ 7:39 am
Trigger surely you could’ve squeezed in Sarah Shook And The Disarmers’ “The Way She Looked At You” onto that playlist. Since you reviewed it and I bought it I play it and the B-side all the time just like I did when I was a kid and got a new 45……lol
December 3, 2018 @ 10:56 am
Wow it seem country music is a roller rollercoaster. A lot of these people I have never heard of. What happened to all the amazing people who sing country for years? Now all these new singers come and go. Personally I love the old style of country music. I not taking about years ago, but throw some, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Vince Gill, and many others. Some of the new ones are on top a while and then you don’t here them much any more
December 9, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
Picked up TOM Buller’s cd last week when he was back in Omaha. Very solid, old school, drink your pain away country. Between that and Whitey’s new drop and The4OnTheFloor and you scratch all three itches: the classic country, outlaw country and straight up rock-n-roll. I’m in a 3 cd rotation until further notice and loving it.