Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#129)

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:
Cody Jinks – “Outlaws and Mustangs” – With his first taste of new music in nearly two years, Cody Jinks goes up-tempo and pairs with frequent collaborator Tennessee Jet to turn in a song that raises the pulse and fills the heart. “Outlaws and Mustangs” is more sincere and substantive than the title might imply. It’s a hall pass to all those who feel the need to roam, and assurance to all that love them that eventually they’ll come back.
J.R. Carroll – “Diamondhead” – You may recognize Carroll as the keyboard player and guitarist from Zach Bryan’s band, but his solo career is something deserving of recognition as well. Carroll recently released an new EP called Live From Jean Pump, and “Diamondhead” is the jewel of it. With a Western flair, it’s filled with musical reference to Northeast Oklahoma that has birthed so much musical talent in the last many years.
Sierra Ferrell – “Fox Hunt” – Like some sort of woodland creature captured in a folk story that’s more myth and legend than physical manifestation, Sierra Ferrell dazzles the mind and imagination, arrests you in a spell of charisma, and steals your attention until nothing else enters your thoughts except the marvelous noise she makes so you can attain full immersion under her spell. Push forward Sierra Ferrell’s new song “The Fox Hunt” as corroborating evidence of this captivating phenomenon. (read more)
Mamma Coal – “Dance Hall Crush” – This is the title track from Mamma Coal’s new album that’s a great exploration into the eternal truths that expose themselves in the dance halls and honky tonks on Friday and Saturday nights all across the United States.
Charley Crockett – “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Martin Scorsese’s new epic film of the same name has just been released, and Charley Crockett chose this fortuitous moment to release a song he wrote about the Osage murders with legendary producer T Bone Burnett. A master of evoking character in music, Charley Crockett’s song may have not made it onto the movie soundtrack, but it should have. Crockett wrote the song over two years ago, but only recently recorded it after hearing about the film.
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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, Apple Music, and Tidal. 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 Ain’t Noise Pollution” – Ellis Bullard – Honky Tonk Ain’t Noise Pollution (2-9-’24)
- “Fox Hunt” – Sierra Ferrell – (single)
- “Outlaws and Mustangs” – Cody Jinks – (single)
- “Family Ties” – Charles Wesley Godwin – Family Ties
- “Dance Hall Crush” – Mamma Coal – Dance Hall Crush
- “Dollar General Sign” – Joe Stamm Band – Wild Man
- “We’re Gone” – Mike and the Moonpies – Live from the Devil’s Backbone
- “Lowland Trail” – Margo Cilker – Valley Of Heart’s Delight
- “When Country Came Back To Town” – Brent Cobb – Southern Star
- “Rustin’ In The Rain” – Tyler Childers – Rustin’ In The Rain
- “Brought Me” – Turnpike Troubadours – A Cat in the Rain
- “Right Back” – Jenny Tolman – (single)
- “Still Is Still Moving To Me” – Willie Nelson – Bluegrass
- “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” – The Steel Woods – On Your Time
- “Diamondhead” – J.R. Carroll – Live From Jean Pump EP
- “Coyote” – Dylan LeBlanc – Coyote
- “This Train” The Country Side of Harmonica Sam – Back To The Blue Side
- “Tecumseh Valley” – Charley Crockett – Live from the Ryman
- “Blue Endless Highway” – Nick Shoulders – All Bad
- “Thundertown” – Tony Logue – The Crumbs
- “Conspiracies, Cults & UFOs – John R. Miller – Heat Comes Down
- “Hey Driver” – Zach Bryan feat. The War and Treaty – Self-Titled
- “Here Comes The Night” – Scott Southworth – Comin’ Round to Honky Tonk Again
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Charley Crockett – (single)
- “Daredevil” – Whey Jennings – Just Before The Dawn
- “Learned To Lie” – Ashley McBryde – The Devil I Know
October 22, 2023 @ 11:12 am
Curious what others think of “Cowboys and Plowboys”
Some ppl say they like it, some are saying they hate it. Seems 50/50 down the line.
For me, i like the production & melody etc. But the lyrics are kinda cringe
October 22, 2023 @ 2:07 pm
Cheesy as hell, but did I tap my toe when listening to it? You bet!
October 22, 2023 @ 4:30 pm
GO CHARLEY!!!
You certainly are making us proud.
Happy for you!
October 22, 2023 @ 5:03 pm
Perhaps this is shady, but it would be much easier for me as an old if these playlists segregated into “rootsy singer/songwriter Americana” and “everything else”. Not meaning to be dismissive of any of the artists in these playlists, but I feel like I’m at a point where as much as I love Townes Van Zandt compared to say Marty Robbins, I’d get 100 times as excited by a new artist being compared to Marty than Townes.
October 22, 2023 @ 6:56 pm
@JB – Agree.
October 23, 2023 @ 4:07 am
hard agree!
October 23, 2023 @ 7:58 am
I appreciate the suggestion, but this would never happen for this playlist. First, there are not enough of the top caliber songs I am looking for to populate this playlist to make two of them. Second, the whole point of the playlist is to make a “rub” point between the different disciplines of country so it can be both a discovery mechanism, as well as a way to create positive metadata for all the artists involved to help support the tracks themselves and more generally their careers through the streaming algorithms.
October 26, 2023 @ 6:05 pm
Trig,
So I (kinda) wasn’t being shady, but I was definitely being “cheeky”. And the object of my, um, cheekiness wasn’t so much the playlists themselves as this tendency over the last, say, 15 years for very serious artistes in the Americana/independent country realm. I used Marty Robbins as an example I suppose for his versatility, but I could just as easily have used Buck Owens or Roger Miller for being fun.
I love sad country music. Whitley. Paycheck. Gosdin. Womack.
But “serious”? Nah. Leave that to the film bros.
October 22, 2023 @ 5:49 pm
Really good to to hear a new song from Jinks. He even put some fiddle in there for a little something extra. “Diamond Head” is a fantastic song and I’ve had it on repeat since it dropped. Thought you’d throw a curveball Trigger and put “Dreamy Skies” from The Rolling Stones on here to see if anyone noticed. It’s got some dirty slide guitar from Ronnie, great harmonica from Mick and even a Hank Williams reference. And for those of you like me missing pre-pop Morgan Wade, she released a stunning piano ballad called “Halloween” that brought back the goosebumps from the first time I heard her voice.
October 22, 2023 @ 6:09 pm
First time seeing The Steel Woods live was last night at the Hargray Capitol Theatre in Macon. Great show. My man can definitely sing. Zach Top was a solid opener; saw him earlier this year opening for Dwight Yoakam. Been a good year for me with live music – my favorite thing in the entire world. JRW next week! (Rob Leines’ set the night before still reverberating in my heart, mind, and soul… best single set of the year?? Cool dude as well. Also Swedish prog-rock band Hallas at the Radio Room next month. How they got them, no clue.
October 23, 2023 @ 4:09 am
I saw Steel Woods with Zach Top earlier in the tour and BOY that was an amazing show from both of them. Zach Top was a polished neotraditional band. I hope those kids go far, they were just fantastic.
October 23, 2023 @ 12:40 pm
JRW?
October 23, 2023 @ 1:43 pm
Joshua Ray Walker, I assume.