Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#108)
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:
Tommy Prine – “Ships in the Harbor” – Leave it to John Prine’s son to release his debut single, and it perhaps isn’t just the best song all year, but one of the best songs we’ve heard in the last few years. No, it’s not a “country” song per se. But if you listen to the end and you’ll understand why it’s here.
Drake Milligan – “Sounds Like Something I’d Do” – A rare opportunity to feature a single that is also being featured on mainstream country radio as “Sounds Like Something I’d Do” was the 2nd most added song on the format last week, and wholly appropriate to include here as the lead off song to Milligan’s great new album Dallas/Fort Worth.
Sunny Sweeney – “Tie Me Up” – Sunny had been featuring this song live for a few years, and we finally get a studio version that lives up to the live performance with a strong Waylon beat and honky tonk attitude. It’s the first song on her new album Married Alone.
Gabe Lee – “Over You” – One of the greatest and most underrated songwriters of our time has released the second single from his upcoming album The Hometown Kid out October 28th, and though it was apparently inspired by the Nashville native getting his heart broke by the Tennessee Titans football team, it certainly works as a country music heartbreaker as well.
Seth Jones – “My Mistake” – Matching lead guitar and fiddle compliment the melody of Texas songwriter Seth Jones’s latest song, which is a heartbreaker that compliments his life-worn voice. “You better all listen to it and share it or else all is lost and the terrorists win,” Jones says, so why argue with him?
Jon Pardi – “Reverse Cowgirl” – Leave it to Jon Pardi to return the innuendo to country music just like he’s been returning the twang to mainstream country over the last few years. More stuff like this in mainstream country, please! It’s from Pardi’s new record Mr. Saturday Night.
Adam Hood – “Flesh and Blood” – A lot of high praise coming in for Adam Hood’s new album Bad Days Better produced by Brent Cobb, and backed by Blackberry Smoke. “Flesh and Blood” delves into the temptations of a touring musician, and is one of numerous country soul scorchers from the new record.
Charley Crockett – “Just Like Honey” – Charley Crockett just continues to claw his way up the country music ladder through the sheer sweat on his brow. His latest album The Man From Waco saw his best debut yet, and though like always he mixes in a little vintage R&B into his style, the album still has plenty of country roots like this little gem.
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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:
- “Sounds Like Something I’d Do” – Drake Milligan – Dallas/Fort Worth
- “Tie Me Up” – Sunny Sweeney – Married Alone
- “Where I Went Wrong” – The Broken Spokes – Where I Went Wrong
- “Flesh and Blood” – Adam Hood – Bad Days Better
- “My Grass Is Blue” – Kimmi Bitter – (single)
- “Reverse Cowgirl” – Jon Pardi – Mr. Saturday Night
- “Ships in the Harbor” – Tommy Prine – (single)
- “My Mistake” – Seth Jones – (single)
- “Casualty” – Courtney Patton – Electrostatic (10-7)
- “Just Like Honey” – Charley Crockett – The Man From Waco
- “Over You” – Gabe Lee – The Hometown Kid (10-28)
- “Another Bad Apple” – Ward Davis – (single)
- “Where Cotton Is King” – The Panhandlers – (single)
- “Anabelle” – Memphis Kee – (single)
- “On The Ranch” – Emily Nenni – On The Ranch (11-4)
- “Turn Anywhere into a Honky Tonk” – Alex Key – Neon Signs and Stained Glass
- “Years” – Sierra Ferrell – Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson
- “Texas” – Jonathan Terrell – A Couple, 2, 3, EP (9-9)
- “Playing Patsy” – Adam & Amy Pope – (single)
- “The Way I Oughta Go” – Bella White – (single)
- “Can’t Wait to Never See You Again” – Hellbound Glory – The Immortal Hellbound Glory: Nobody Knows You (9-30)
- “Honky Tonk Town” – Kimberly Kelly – I’ll Tell You What’s Gonna Happen
- “Trouble With A Hammer” – Conrad Fisher – (single)
- “A Guitar, A Singer, and A Song” – Wade Bowen w/ Vince Gill – Somewhere Between The Secret and The Truth
- “Tall and Mighty” – Kelsey Waldon – No Regular Dog
- “Oklahoma Smokeshow” – Zach Bryan – Summertime Blues
September 25, 2022 @ 8:55 am
I like most of these. I saw the songwriter of “Reverse Cowgirl” sing it the song in Nashville in June . The barking idiot Seth guy is garbage. If he wants to bully people on Twitter and use the name “Shitpileton” for my last name, then I dare that barking fairy to try saying that to my face. Trash.
September 25, 2022 @ 9:17 am
Endorsing someone’s music is NEVER an endorsement of someone’s behavior on Twitter, because Twitter is ergonomically designed to bring the worst out in people. I have no knowledge of the Twitter behavior of Seth Jones. He’s probably shit talked me on there at some point too, because that’s one of the hip things to do. But I liked this song.
September 25, 2022 @ 6:09 pm
I have followed Mr. Jones social media for almost 3 years and have never seen anything other than a hard working human being who struggles with depression, uses his own struggles and turns them into art and humor. I respect his art and interactions. For the record, every post I have seen about Saving Country Music has reflected respect and gratefulness for you support. I hate twitter but I love this man’s legacy and songwriting. He definitely does not represent twitter.
September 25, 2022 @ 9:26 am
Seth Jones is my favorite songwriter. He sounds great on My mistake but sounds even better live. Thank you for including his art. His songs have many meanings and it can take years to discover them and apply them to your life. A gifted, bright songwriter.
September 25, 2022 @ 9:14 am
Could “Reverse Cowgirl” be a future radio single??
Are there Radio corporate rules and regulations at radio for “naughty material” like this that would prohibit it from gaining traction?
September 26, 2022 @ 7:53 am
Hey, “Summer of 69” was a big hit in the ’80s, wasn’t it?
September 26, 2022 @ 3:54 pm
Jon’s wife is named Summer too.
September 26, 2022 @ 10:07 am
I mean, they allowed “stick a pink umbrella in your drink”.
But unlike that dumpster fire, Reverse Cowgirl is actually a good song. However, will it appeal to the demographic of the Morgan Wallen/Walker Hayes/Flavor of the Week crowd that radio is courting at the moment? It sonically sounds like a early 2000’s George Strait song.
September 26, 2022 @ 5:42 pm
Ouch. Wallen and Hayes in the same sentence. But sad to say, “You Proof” is right down there with “Fancy Like” and “AA” on the godawfulness scale. Your doubts about radio are justified. The bro country nightmare of the ’10s turned country radio’s prime demographic into 25-44 suburban females. There’s only so much genuine country music that can be pushed right now without driving a lot of those women back to adult contemporary stations — where they can also hear “Fancy Like” and, soon, “You Proof.” But remember, there’s always been a lot of crap on country radio. The past is oversentimentalized. For every “Pancho and Lefty” and “Amarillo By Morning” that country radio played in the ’80s, there was a “God Bless the U.S.A” and “Paradise Tonight.” Getting this song wide airplay even if it never goes top 10 would still be a positive, given how long even mid-chart hits stick around on radio these days. But is your local Bull or Wolf or Kicks ever going to sound like SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country? No, because that’s not what Nashville is trying to do, and radio follows Nashville’s lead.
September 26, 2022 @ 6:23 pm
I just turned 26, and I’m female, and a song like Reverse Cowgirl is right up my alley. I grew up on 90’s and early 2000’s country, and I love fiddle and steel turned up to 11. However, I kinda feel like I’m in the minority for my demographic.Reverse Cowgirl, and Jon Pardi in his entirety, feels to me like a respectable homage to 90’s—very early 2000’s country. He’s one of the very few of the new country crowd I actually like.
Remember She Ain’t In It? That was/is an amazing song, but was sort of a flop at radio. Sadly, I feel like Reverse Cowgirl will take the same trajectory as She Ain’t In It. An awesome song that 90’s—early 2000s country fans will love, but will feel too “oLd” for the college girl, “He’S SOOOO CuTe!!!!! LOLZ” teenage girls, and mothers of said girls crowd. Therefore, it will most likely peak in the mid 20’s.
September 26, 2022 @ 6:39 pm
Here’s the thing – I think his next single “Your Heart or Mine” will be a huge hit. It impacts radio in October and I predict it will be #1 by March.
So by April what would be the next single?? It’s hard to pick… Maybe Reverse Cowgirl.. Or Mr Sat Night? Or they might release the Deluxe edition with that Luke Bryan collab called “Cowboys and Plowboys”
September 26, 2022 @ 8:06 pm
@Howard,
What’s wrong with “God Bless The U.S.A.” ?
Catches a lot of grief on this site.
What is your reason for not liking it?
September 27, 2022 @ 4:51 am
@Di Harris:
It’s a pop song, not a country song. As a patriotic song, I actually prefer it to “God Bless America,” but the only reason it was ever played on country radio was its patriotic theme.
I suppose it could be argued that Lee Greenwood was never a true country artist — no twang, no steel, no fiddles, no banjos. But in the company of Eddie Rabbitt, Juice Newton, T.G. Sheppard, and other MOR/Country acts of that era, he fit into most mainstream formats of that era. Even then, though, I was wishing country radio sounded more country, and usually changed the station when I’d hear the first notes of “IOU” or “Just You and I” or “Queen of Hearts.”
September 27, 2022 @ 10:35 am
@ Howard,
Appreciate your excellent response.
Thank you
September 25, 2022 @ 11:38 am
End of summer, fun song.. Am I missing something? How does muscadine bloodline-Evinrudin’ not make the top 25.
It’s not on the Dispatch to 16th Ave album (which is a easy top 5er for me) it was just a single release in assuming…
September 25, 2022 @ 5:15 pm
New Sterling Drake tune is very good
September 26, 2022 @ 5:47 am
Have you heard Koe Wetzel! listen to one of my favrioute track – “Something to talk about”
September 26, 2022 @ 7:56 am
Is it just me or does Drake Milligan sound like Josh Turner.
That Sunny Sweeney album is great and that song was probably the best song on the album.
September 26, 2022 @ 10:26 am
This is a must, for an add-on.
Nice clear vocals, great rhythm/timing.
Clean production.
https://youtu.be/h5kvJiMQ_vU
September 26, 2022 @ 10:35 am
The new song by Jon Hope and the Jackwagons, Horse of a Different Color, is a fresh sounding song with a great fiddle part..
October 3, 2022 @ 11:48 am
The verses of “My Mistake” are pretty similar to Feathered Indians. Same chord progression and vocal melody.